What kind of complementary food should a 6-month-old baby eat?
Babies aged 6 to 8 months can add spinach, cauliflower, green leafy shredded vegetables, potatoes, corn, tomatoes, eggplants, beets, and watermelon. , orange juice, strawberry, mango, lemon, avocado, pork liver paste, fish paste, minced pork, minced beef, crab, shrimp paste, chicken porridge, rotten noodles, soft tofu, biscuits, bread slices and other complementary foods.
Note: Liver puree cannot be eaten until the baby is 7 months old, so do not add it too early.
Consumption: 5-10 grams of complementary food each time. According to traditional Chinese habits, fish paste is added earlier.
Frequency of feeding: At this stage, complementary food is added 3 times a day. Staple food recipes for 6-month-old babies
A 6-month-old baby can officially start adding complementary foods, eating rice noodles first, then pureed vegetables and fruits, and finally egg yolks. The baby's staple food recipes should be based on soup or paste, such as fruit juice, vegetable juice, vegetable soup, broth, egg yolk puree, vegetable puree, fruit puree, fish puree, meat puree, etc., which can be easily accepted by the baby.
1. Egg yolk puree
Ingredients: 1 egg
Method: After boiling the eggs, grind them into puree with a spoon, and then add an appropriate amount of Boiling water or formula milk can be evenly mixed into a paste. You can start with 1/8 egg yolks at the beginning, and then gradually increase to 1/4 or 1/3 according to the baby's acceptance.
Nutritional Tips: The iron content in egg yolk is high, and vitamins A, D and E dissolve with fat and are easily absorbed and utilized by the body.
2. Fresh liver and potato paste
Ingredients: 20 grams of potatoes, 30 grams of rice, 5 grams of chicken liver.
Method: Rinse the chicken liver with running water, put it into a small pot and cook; remove (reserve the water for cooking the chicken liver), take about 1/3 and mash it into a puree; potatoes Clean it, put it in a small pot and cook until soft, remove it, and press it into minced potatoes; after washing the rice, add the water used to boil the chicken liver, bring to a boil over high heat, then reduce to medium to low heat, and simmer until the rice grains turn into a paste; Add chicken liver puree and potato puree, stir well and turn off the heat. Feed to the baby after it is warm.
Nutritional tip: Chicken liver is rich in protein, calcium, phosphorus, iron, zinc, vitamin A, and vitamin B, which can protect your baby's vision.
Vegetable recipes for 6-month-old babies
1. Vegetable soup
Ingredients: 400 grams of tomatoes, 300 grams of watermelons, 200 grams of celery, 50 grams of coriander, 50g bean sprouts, 500g milk, 50g butter, 2g pepper, 5g salt, 10g minced garlic.
Method: Put celery in a blender; puree it and set aside; cut tomatoes and watermelon into cubes and set aside; add butter to a hot pan, add minced garlic and sauté until fragrant, add celery puree and milk, cook until boiling; add tomatoes, Continue cooking the zucchini for 10 minutes. Add bean sprouts, coriander, pepper, and salt to taste, and you're ready to eat.
Nutritional tips: Drinking vegetable soup is helpful to enhance the body’s resistance, and the iron and calcium contained in celery help to supplement trace elements.
2. Xiaoshi radish soup
Ingredients: 60 grams of white radish, 5 grams of dried orange peel, 2 raw hawthorns, and 5 grams of rock sugar.
Method: Wash and slice the white radish; shred the dried orange peel; wash the raw hawthorn; put all the ingredients into a small pot, add 600ml of water; bring to a boil over high heat, then reduce to low heat and simmer for 10 minutes. Remove the orange peel and discard it, and eat with the soup; serve a cup at the end.
Nutritional Tips: It can promote gastrointestinal motility, eliminate constipation, play a role in detoxification, thereby improving rough skin, acne and other conditions. Protein diet for 6-month-old babies
Fish is very important for the development of the baby. It is rich in protein and vitamins, which is beneficial to the development of the baby's intelligence. To add complementary foods to a six-month-old baby, you can prepare some fish recipes appropriately. Fish meat is high in phospholipids and protein, and is tender and easy to digest. It meets the nutritional needs of the baby's development, but you must choose fresh fish.
1. Three shredded whitebait soup
Ingredients: appropriate amount of whitebait, 1 egg, 3 dried mushrooms, appropriate amount of salad oil, appropriate amount of starch, 3 green onions, appropriate amount of sesame oil.
Method: Wash the whitebait, remove the soft and rotten ones, drain the water, add egg white and mix well with your hands; soak the mushrooms in advance, cut into shreds, cut the green onion into sections of about 5 cm, and cut the raw Mix the flour with cold water (not too thin); heat oil in a pot, stir-fry shredded shiitake mushrooms quickly, add water and cook; after the water boils, add the prepared whitebait, and boil the soup again to remove the prepared cornstarch. , stir quickly with chopsticks; add chopped green onions; sprinkle with sesame oil and serve.
Nutritional tips: Whitebait is sweet and neutral in nature, and returns to the spleen and stomach meridian. It has the effects of moistening the lungs and relieving coughs, replenishing the spleen and stomach, nourishing the lungs, and diluting water. It is especially suitable for people with weak constitution and indigestion. .
2. Fish puree with tomatoes and peppers
Ingredients: Cut carrots into small dices, mushrooms into small dices, rice, 1 egg, and some fish fillets.
Method: Beat the eggs (generally 1/4 of the egg liquid for babies), add 2 times the water, mix well, pour into a small bowl and set aside; fillet the fish into fillets, remove the spines and set aside; Pour the steamed rice and water into the rice cooker and cook; cut carrot slices and washed florets of cauliflower, cook them in the same way; mix the carrots, shiitake mushrooms and rice noodles; steam the ingredients from step 1 , at this time, the fish fillets are sandwiched on the solidified egg custard, then immediately cover the pot and continue to simmer for about 7-8 minutes. Chop the tomatoes and colored peppers and cook them, then use the mold to make them look like red and green flowers.
Nutritional tips: The protein in eggs can repair liver tissue damage, and the lecithin in egg yolk can promote the regeneration of liver cells. It can also increase the amount of plasma protein in the human body and enhance the body's metabolic and immune functions. Fish meat is high in protein and is tender and easy to digest. Precautions for adding complementary foods to 6-month-old babies
1. Start with a small amount and gradually increase it.
When the child is willing to eat and can digest normally, gradually increase the amount. If the child refuses to eat, don't feed it reluctantly. You can feed it again after 2 to 3 days. Forcing children to eat will only be counterproductive.
2. Food supplements should be from thin to dry, from fine to thick.
Complementary food should be increased gradually from thin to dry, from fine to coarse, from soft to hard, from light to thick, so that the child can gradually adapt to it. Do not do it in one step, the child will adapt. No.
3. Add complementary foods according to the season and the child’s physical condition.
Complementary foods should be added according to the season and the child's physical condition, and should be increased one by one, gradually to a variety of foods. If the child's stool becomes abnormally thin, the increase should be suspended until it returns to normal before increasing the amount. In addition, in the hot summer and when the child is in poor health, do not add complementary foods to avoid discomfort in the child. It is best to wait until autumn when the weather is cooler before adding them.
4. Add when the baby is hungry before feeding.
Complementary food should be added when the child is hungry before feeding, so that the child can accept it easily. With the gradual increase of complementary foods, it can gradually transition from replacing half a meal of milk to replacing one meal of milk a day.
5. Baby tableware should be fixed and dedicated.
Pay attention to hygiene. Baby tableware should be fixed and dedicated. In addition to careful washing, it must be disinfected every day. When feeding, parents do not need to blow on their mouths while feeding, and do not chew the food in their own mouths before spitting it out to the baby. This practice is extremely unhygienic and can easily spread diseases to children.
6. Train children to adapt to using tableware.
When feeding complementary foods, it is necessary to train the child to gradually adapt to the use of tableware, so as to prepare for the independent use of tableware in the future. Generally, a 6-month-old baby can take a spoon and put it in his mouth by himself, and a 7-month-old baby can use it. Cup or bowl for drinking water.
7. Parents should be patient when feeding their children complementary foods.
When feeding babies complementary foods, parents must be patient and find ways to make their children interested in food.