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What Food From 8-12 Months?

What food from 8-12 months?

What food 8-10 months: Video transcript [1]

By 8 or 9 months, you can start to offer your baby their solids before breast milk or formula. By now your baby is probably having 3-4 meals a day, 1-2 snacks, and 2-3 breast (or formula) feeds.

By the time your baby is 12 months, they're ready to eat a little of what the rest of the family is eating but remember to be careful about foods that can cause choking. Grated cheese and carrot, vegetables (kumara, potato, broccoli), plates of soft cooked vegetables and fruit, toast fingers, wheat biscuits, mandarin segments, glasses of pasta, rice, plain yoghurt, baby muesli, bowls of raw meat and legumes

 

 

 

 

 

Try mashed vegetables mixed with minced or finely chopped tender cooked meat, chicken, kai moana, egg or slightly mashed cooked legumes (such as lentils). You could also add chopped up noodles or pasta or whole rice.

Vegetables (kumara, potato, pumpkin, broccoli), bowls of raw meat and legumes, eggs, glasses of pasta and rice
Add chopped soft fruit to yoghurt or custard.

Glass of plain yoghurt surrounded by plates of chopped soft fruit

Offer breakfast cereal – porridge, wheat biscuits and infant muesli.
Wheat biscuits and infant muesli

Introduce slightly firmer finger foods such as: soft ripe fruit or soft cooked vegetables such as kiwifruit or kūmara; finely grated raw carrot and apple; toast fingers; puffed crispbread.

Grated carrot, grated cheese, grated apple and toast fingers

 

 

Platter of soft fruit and vegetable pieces
More detail (see the online version for links to more detailed content)
[2]

Choking Checklist [2]

Babies and children can choke on food at any age but those under 5 are at higher risk, and especially children and babies under 3. Watch a video about ways to reduce the choking risk.

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Finger Food Ideas From 8-12 Months [3]

Labelled photos to give you some finger food ideas for your baby from 8-12 months

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Sample meal plan for 8-12 months [4]

Some suggestions for meals and snacks from 8-12 months.

Eating for healthy babies and toddlers [5]

Food information for babies and toddlers from birth to 2 years old.Image of the cover of the booklet 'Eating for healthy babies and toddlers' [6]

Three day meal plan for 9-12 months [7]

Extract (pp 137-8) from the Ministy of Health's Food and Nutrition Guidelines for Healthy Infants and Toddlers (Aged 0-2). Partially revised December 2012. 
Three day meal plan for 9-12 months (PDF 32KB) [8]

Introducing different food textures 8-12 months [9]

Food and nutrition guidelines for healthy infants and toddlers (aged 0–2) [10]

A Ministry of Health background paper - partially revised December 2012

This page last reviewed 02 June 2013.
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[1] https://kidshealth.org.nz/what-food-8-12-months-video-transcript
[2] https://kidshealth.org.nz/choking-checklist
[3] https://kidshealth.org.nz/finger-food-ideas-8-12-months
[4] https://kidshealth.org.nz/sample-meal-plan-8-12-months
[5] https://kidshealth.org.nz/eating-healthy-babies-and-toddlers
[6] https://www.healthed.govt.nz/resource/eating-healthy-babies-and-toddlersng%C4%81-kai-t%C5%8Dtika-m%C5%8D-te-hunga-k%C5%8Dhungahunga
[7] https://kidshealth.org.nz/three-day-meal-plan-9-12-months
[8] https://kidshealth.org.nz/sites/kidshealth/files/pdfs/Three%20day%20meal%20plan%20pages%20from%20food-and-nutrition-guidelines-healthy-infants-and-toddlers-revised-dec12.pdf
[9] https://kidshealth.org.nz/introducing-different-food-textures-8-12-months
[10] https://kidshealth.org.nz/food-and-nutrition-guidelines-healthy-infants-and-toddlers-aged-0%E2%80%932
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