What Food To Give Your Baby At Around 6 Months

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What Food To Give Your Baby At Around 6 Months

Start with one food at a time, and add a new food every 2-4 days. Over time, increase how much and how often you give solid foods. Start with 1-2 teaspoons once a day, and slowly increase.

What food at around 6 months?

What food at around 6  months: Video transcript

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Start with one food at a time, and add a new food every 2-4 days. Over time, increase how much and how often you give solid foods. Start with 1-2 teaspoons once a day, and slowly increase.

Some good foods when your baby's starting on solids are:

Vegetables (potato, pumpkin, kumara, kamokamo, cassava), bought baby food, baby cereal, rice, bowls of meat and legumes, fruit (apple, pear, mango, banana)

Iron-fortified infant cereal/baby rice.

Baby cereal

Cooked and puréed beef, lamb, pork, chicken or fish or vegetarian alternatives (such as cooked and puréed lentils).
Bowls of beef, lamb, pork, legumes

Puréed fruit without skins, pips or seeds – apple, pear, mango (cooking to soften if needed).
Fruit (apple, mango, pear, banana)

Cooked and puréed vegetables without skins, seeds or pips − kūmara, kamokamo, pumpkin, potato, cassava, tapioca.
Vegetables (potato, pumpkin, kumara, kamokamo, cassava)

Puréed, plain cooked rice or congee.
Plain rice

Bought baby food, which is labelled as the right stage for your baby.
Bought baby food

 

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External links and downloads

Infant feeding (healthykids, Te Hiringa Hauora | Health Promotion Agency)

On this website you can find out about the signs your baby is ready to try solid foods; best foods to start with and how to prepare them; tips on making this special time easier; how to make baby food at home; the signs your baby is full and had enough to eat; recipe ideas for the next steps. The information has been checked by experts and follows Ministry of Health recommendations about infant feeding.

Eating for healthy babies and toddlers/Ngā kai tōtika mō te hunga kōhungahunga (HealthEd)

Food information for babies and toddlers from birth to 2 years old.

Healthy eating guidelines for NZ babies and toddlers (0–2 years old) (Ministry of Health | Manatū Hauora)

The content in the infant nutrition section of the KidsHealth website is based on 'Healthy eating guidelines for NZ babies and toddlers (0–2 years old)'. These guidelines (September 2021) provide updated population-health recommendations for feeding children who are under 2 years of age, to promote healthy growth and development and help establish healthy eating behaviours.

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This page last reviewed 02 June 2013.

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