Find easy, nutritious, yummy 6 month old food ideas to share with your baby. Whether you’re doing purees or baby-led weaning style foods, this post has you covered.
As soon as a baby is starting solids, it can be a challenge to know which foods to try, so this post is meant to give you some easy ideas. There are options if you are serving baby purees and also easy baby-led weaning foods, so you can pick the ones that work for your family.
Each option here is nutritious, easy to make, and yummy to make sure that baby gets what she needs and you have an easy time prepping meals.
(You may also like finger foods for baby, my easy-to-reference baby food chart, and my master list of baby food recipes for more easy ideas.)
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Baby Cereal Ideas
Find my favorite homemade baby cereal recipes below, with options to use grains including rice, oats, and a mix of whole grains to vary nutrition and ingredients.
Make healthy baby oatmeal at home in less than 5 minutes and learn how to add flavor and nutrition easily with this super simple method.
Easiest Baby Oatmeal
Soaking the rice is optional but recommended. It may help it be a little easier for baby to digest, but as long as you cook the rice until very soft, it is not 100% necessary if you’re short on time. The directions, timing, and liquid used here are based on soaking the rice and using the short-grain brown rice from Lundberg.
Best Homemade Baby Rice Cereal
Make this quick and nutritious baby porridge for a baby of any age—or share with big kids and adults, too. With under 15 minutes of cook time and many flavor options, this is a favorite baby breakfast to try.
Favorite Baby Porridge (Nutritious, Fast, Flavorful)
Easiest Baby Food Purees for 6 Month Olds
Find my favorite super quick baby food purees to start solids with, including many that don’t even require cooking. Plus, all you need to make these is a blender or a fork!
This easy baby food is rich in healthy fats, super smooth, and has a mellow flavor. This is a great puree to make when you’re eating something like tacos so you can have some, too!
Easy Avocado Puree
Use a ripe banana with at least some brown spots for the best flavor in this puree.
Banana Puree Baby Food
You can make this puree to feed to a baby or toddler, or as a simple side dish for the whole family to share.
Butternut Squash Baby Food Puree
You can use either fresh or frozen mango for this recipe. It can be served by itself or mixed together with another puree, plain yogurt, oatmeal, or cottage cheese. (It also works as an adult food drizzled over fish tacos or stirred into a drink.)
5-Minute Mango Puree
This is an easy method to introduce eggs to baby, whether they’re starting solids on purees or with the baby led weaning approach. Adjust the number of eggs up or down as you like.
Easy Egg Yolk Puree (with BLW option)
Iron Rich Ideas for 6 Month Olds
Incorporate iron-rich foods from the start with these easy options. These are easy to serve and include meat sources of iron as well as plant-based ones. (You can also mash up my baby meatballs or any meatball into a thick puree.)
This chicken puree is a nutrient-rich baby food that’s easy to make and packed with flavor. It’s a quick blend of chicken and sweet potato that’s versatile, so you can make it as a Stage 1 or 2 baby food.
Easy Chicken Puree
You can make this recipe with almost any bean, such as garbanzo beans, white beans, and black beans.
Easy Bean Puree
You can serve this as wedges, a thick mash, or a thinner puree to your baby or toddler. (Adults will love the wedges, too!)
Favorite Sweet Potato Baby Food
Learn how to make quick and flavorful Green Bean Baby Food as a baby-led weaning food or as a Stage 1 or 2 puree. Plus, find tips on how to store and mix the puree with other flavors to make yummy baby food combinations.
Easy Green Bean Baby Food
This is delicious on its own served on a spoon, stirred into baby oatmeal, spread onto a quarter of a piece of toast, or added to a smoothie.
Easy Prune Puree
Baby Led Weaning Ideas for 6 Month Old
If you’re going the baby-led weaning approach with feeding your baby, you can find all of my tips in the following posts:
TIP: Try my Lentil Patties, Chickpea Patties, and Roasted Vegetables Recipes, too.
Frequently Asked Questions
Aim for food for infants of this age to be soft so it’s easy for them to move around in their mouths, either with a puree or a baby-led weaning food.
You can slice and roast as a baby led weaning food or steam, let cool, and blend into a puree.
It’s easy to blend plain peanut butter with water to make a thin peanut butter puree. Or you can spread a little bit onto toast for a baby led weaning food. You can also stir it into infant cereal.
How to Store Baby Food
You can store baby food in the fridge in airtight containers for up to 3 days. Or, you can freeze it for up to 6 months. Storing homemade baby food in the freezer allows you to make a bigger batch at once, and then serve it to baby over the course of a few weeks or months.
One of the easiest way is to use an ice cube tray, which has the added benefit of portioning out the baby food nicely.
Best Tips for Success
- Talk to your pediatrician about any concerns about starting solids or potential food allergens.
- Make sure baby is securely sitting in an upright position in a highchair for meals.
- Consider giving baby the chance to feed themselves and have more control over putting food into their mouths by preloading spoons with food and allowing them to self-feed.
- Aim for a mix of foods and flavors over the course of a week.
- Check out my baby feeding schedules and sample meal plans for examples of how to fit in solids along with formula bottle or breast milk feedings.
- Check out my Carrot Baby Food, Broccoli for Baby, early finger foods for baby, Green Bean Puree, Teething Crackers, and my easy Tofu for Babies.
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