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General Baby Food Texture Guide
Back to Making Your Own Baby Food

Recipes adapted from "Making Your Own Baby Food", Metro Foodshare,Toronto.

AGE (Months)

 

 FOOD

 TEXTURE

0 - 6

 

Breast Milk Infant Formula

Liquid Liquid

6

Add

Baby cereal (iron fortified)

Strained (thick- soup-like)

6 - 8

Add Add

Cooked Vegetables 
Cooked or Soft Fruits

Strained or mashed 
Strained or mashed

8 - 10

Add 

 

 

Add

Meat and Alternatives (hard-cooked egg yolk- soft tofu- well-cooked beans- plain yogurt - minimum 3.8% M.F. cheese) 

Dry Toast (use in place of a teething biscuit)

Mashed or finely minced

10 - 12

 

Most variety of foods can be eaten by baby at this age

Finely chopped small pieces for baby to feed self

 

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