If your baby is accepting gentle tastes and smooth textures quite easily, now’s the time to start moving on to
the next stage: introducing more adventurous tastes and mashed textures.
Introducing mashed textures will encourage your baby to learn to chew. And you can also help by making exaggerated chewing movements while you feed them, to show them how to move their jaws up and down.
So start their day with a baby breakfast cereal, then try including lots of different vegetables in their main meal. Why not try some of our 7 month+ jar meals - they're just the right texture and have more vegetables than any other baby jar! For afters, try some fresh fruit or a fruity dessert. At this stage, babies are usually open to trying new flavours too, so it’s a great time to introduce foods such as aubergine, mushrooms and pineapple. Trying a wider variety of ingredients will help your baby develop a liking for different tastes and encourage healthy eating habits in later years. It will also help them get the balance of nutrients they need for all that growing!
Remember, milk is still an important part of your baby’s diet and they’ll need around 500 – 600ml (about a pint) a day, including the milk you use to make their food.
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