8 Months Baby Food Chart with Indian Recipes - My Little Moppet (2024)

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Can an 8 month old eat Indian food? ›

Your 8-month baby food diet chart must include vegetables. You can switch from mashed vegetable puree to small cubes of steamed vegetables. And can also incorporate veggies in khichdi and gradually introduce them to vegetables like cauliflower, broccoli, asparagus, and green peas. Etc.

At about eight months, you may want to introduce foods that are slightly coarser than strained pureed foods. They require more chewing than baby foods. You can expand your baby's diet to include soft foods such as yogurt, oatmeal, mashed banana, mashed potatoes, or even thicker or lumpy pureed vegetables.

From 6–8 months old, feed your baby half a cup of soft food two to three times a day. Your baby can eat anything except honey, which they shouldn't eat until they reach 12 months old. You can start to add a healthy snack, like mashed fruit, between meals.

8-month-olds feeding schedule

Solid foods at least twice or three times a day along with 25 to 32 ounces of formula or breast milk every 24 hours. You can start increasing the quantity and variety of the foods in your 8-month-old baby's diet. You can also try introducing a sippy cup and finger foods.

When can I offer my baby rice? From around 6 months, after your baby has had their first tastes, rice is perfectly fine to offer to little ones. It's a great source of carbohydrates, which provide the energy that babies need to grow and develop as well as contributing to their protein, calcium and B-vitamin intakes.

Start offering eggs around the same time you start your baby on solid foods, after 6 months of age. Your little one's menu can begin with purees and very soft food (like infant cereal) and then expand to include more textured foods, such as eggs, fruits, vegetables, and meats.

At 7 and 8 months old, babies need solid foods two to three times a day. They're still getting most of their nutrients from breast milk or formula, though.

Foods cut into small pieces in a variety of flavors, colors, and textures are all great finger foods to try first with your baby. These can include steamed veggies; soft fruits; whole-grain pasta, bread, or crackers; chicken; cheese; and scrambled eggs.

How much should an 8 month old weigh? ›

Your baby will continue to grow rapidly during these months. The typical eight-month-old boy weighs between 17.5 and 22 pounds (8 to 10 kg). Girls tend to weigh half a pound less. By his first birthday, the average child has tripled his birth weight and is 28 to 32 inches (71 to 81 cm) tall.

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Pasta noodle shapes for palmar grasp

Most pasta noodle shapes are safe to eat from a texture and shape perspective, but long thin noodles like spaghetti will be harder for baby to get in their mouth. The best pasta shapes to start with, from approximately 6-8 months, include larger round or flat noodles like…

Cut large, tubular pastas in half, or offer macaroni, quartered ravioli, or chopped noodles. If baby is having a hard time picking up the pasta, it's okay to continue to serve whole pieces of large, tubular pasta. Doing so will help advance biting and chewing and grinding skills.

I tried to blend rice, meats, all types of veggie dishes when he was about 6-7 months. Of course, I didn't make it as spicy as I normally would. – Farah K. We started early, 6 months, with Indian flavors in purees of veggies and in their finger foods even adding a bit of curry powder to scrambled eggs.

Did you know that babies can be introduced to spices from 6+ months? This recipe is perfect for introducing your child to new and exciting flavours, and will soon become a firm family favourite.

You can introduce herbs and many spices as soon as your baby starts eating finger foods (usually around 8 to 10 months) – just don't add salt or sugar to their food. You want your baby to get used to the natural flavors of food and be willing to eat food that isn't heavily salted or sugared.