Here is a list of foods in order of introduction for my second son. This is not an all-inclusive list. There are only so many foods you can introduce during this short time span. Make the most of it!
First week (5 months):
- Avocado, scooped out and mashed
- Butternut quash, roasted and mashed
- Banana, raw, mashed
- Grass-fed ground organic beef (stir fried, and processed with breast milk in mini processor)
Foods added in the second week All foods listed above, plus:
- Homemade rice cereal (Cooked brown rice in food mill and processed with breast milk)
- Homemade oatmeal cereal (same procedure as brown rice)
- Flattened pieces of cooked buckwheat Quinoa
- Organic winter squash
- small pieces Steamed organic broccoli and olive oil, mashed with my fingers, fed small pieces by finger
Foods added in the third week All foods listed above, plus:
- Roasted Asparagus with olive oil, small pieces of the tips
- Baked potato
- Lamb shishkabob, small “strings” of meat
- Spelt “bread” (Baker’s brand, made from just cooked whole spelt) and coconut oil spread on it
- Baked barley with celery and carrots, mashed small pieces with fingers
- Peas, defrosted and and mashed
Foods added in the fourth week (6 months) All foods listed above, plus:
- Ground up meat/carrots/tomato sauce, with thyme and garlic
- Plain organic yogurt
- Egg-free whole wheat challah
- Organic apple sauce
- Organic steamed cauliflower
- Chickpeas, cooked and individually flattened/mashed with fingers
Foods added in the seventh month All foods listed above, plus:
- Beef stew with lots of veggies- peppers, onion, celery, carrots, processed in mini-processor
- Mashed sweet potato and lime juice
- Grass-fed organic lamb meatballs cut into small pieces
- Pieces of roasted dark meat chicken cooked with herbs
- Mango
- Chunk light tuna, plain, tiny pieces
- Egg yolk
- Kidney beans (Eden organic canned), individually flattened/mashed with fingers
- Flounder, baked with pepper, wine, and parsley
- Ricotta cheese
- Brussel sprouts, roasted with olive oil and thyme, gently processed in electric processor with some brown rice, carrots, and celery
- Indian chili (chopped meat, onions, tomatoes, dill, cumin, lots of garlic)
- Whole wheat noodles and spinach
- Wheat germ (in yogurt)
Foods added after eight months All foods listed above, plus:
- Cheese
- Cottage cheese
- Cucumber
- Kale chips
- Flax seeds
- Pumpkin seeds
- Sunflower seeds
- Hemp milk smoothie
- Whole wheat pancakes made with molasses
- EVERYTHING ELSE WE USUALLY EAT, TOO MANY TO LIST!
