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Baby Miam
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Guide

Starting solids,
in three stages

One new food at a time, and watch closely.

Written and reviewed by a midwife

  • one new food at a time
  • watch closely
180 ml bottle
50 to 100 ml purée

bottle = 230 − purée (in ml)

Choose your baby's age to see the detail

Week by week

From 4–6 months · weeks 1 to 4
W1

+ Vegetables

Lunch

1 bottle + purée: a single vegetable at a time

Afternoon snack

No afternoon snack yet

W2

+ Potato & fruit

Lunch

1 bottle + purée: vegetables + ¼ potato

Afternoon snack

1 bottle + cooked fruit purée

W3

+ Protein

Lunch

1 bottle + purée: vegetables, ¼ potato, 1 tsp of blended protein

Afternoon snack

1 bottle + cooked fruit purée

W4

+ Fat

Lunch

1 bottle + purée: vegetables, potato, protein + ¼ tsp of oil or butter

Afternoon snack

1 bottle + cooked fruit purée

After 4 weeks

✓ The complete meal

Lunch

The complete meal: vegetable, starch, protein, fat

Afternoon snack

1 bottle + cooked fruit purée

Recipes for this stage

See all 11 recipes

The day fills out

From 6 months

Lunch

Learned at 4–6 months

The complete meal: vegetable, starch, protein, fat

+ Pulses can replace the protein and the starch; cereals can replace the starch.

Afternoon snack

Learned at 4–6 months

1 bottle + cooked fruit purée

+ Baby cereals can be added to the afternoon snack.

Dinner

or

+ An evening meal can be introduced: a bottle with cereals, or a purée of starch, vegetables and fat (no protein in the evening).

Mashed or crushed

No more compulsory smooth purées: mashed, or crushed with a spoon.

Water on demand

Still water is offered freely through the day — especially in hot weather.

First soft chunks

From 7 months, or as soon as baby sits up unaided: very soft pieces they crush with tongue and palate. Entirely optional — it slowly teaches them to eat with their hands.

Recipes for this stage

See all 5 recipes
Banana pancakes 6 months egg · milk · gluten

Banana pancakes

Chunks banana, egg, cereal

Dairy comes in

From 12 months

Lunch

Learned at 6 months

The complete meal: vegetable, starch, protein, fat

+ Whole cow's milk can replace breast or formula milk, and a cheese can be added to the meal.

Afternoon snack

Learned at 6 months

Bottle + fruit purée, with cereals or a plain yoghurt

+ Whole cow's milk can replace breast or formula milk; cheese or fromage blanc can replace the yoghurt.

Dinner

Learned at 6 months

Purée of starch, vegetables and fat

+ Whole cow's milk can replace breast or formula milk, and a cheese can be added to the meal.

On to real chunks

Meals move to soft chunks, fork-crushed, and to sticks baby picks up alone.

Plain dairy only

Not sweetened, not flavoured, not low-fat: a plain dairy counts towards the 500 ml of milk a day.

Recipes for this stage

Recipes for this stage are coming soon.

Calculator

Build a bowl

Enter the amount of one ingredient and the rest works itself out — handy for batch cooking and freezing.

g of
Vegetable —
Starch —
Protein —
Fat —

— g — portions of 50 g

The rule: a 50 g bowl, of which ¼ is starch, 5 g is protein, and the fat equals ¼ of the protein. Everything left is vegetable.

1 new food / day

never two

Allergens early

in the morning, one at a time

20–30 ml of water

per meal from 4 months, freely from 6 months

30 g portions

ice-cube trays

No salt No sugar No honey before 1 year Everything cooked