Five Best Food For babies
1. Vegetables

Give your baby a wide variety of vegetables as soon as you start weaning. Starting your baby off with vegetables early may mean he carries on eating and enjoying them when he’s older.

Vegetables add colour, texture and variety to his meals. They’re high in vitamins, minerals and fibre too. Vegetables help healthy growth and development, and may help to protect against some diseases in the long term.

It's easier to give new vegetables to your baby from the start of weaning. If you wait until he’s older, he’s more likely to reject unknown foods and unfamiliar flavours. If your baby pulls a face when he first tries a new vegetable, it may not mean he dislikes it. He may just be surprised by the new taste.

Some vegetables, such as kale, brussels sprouts, and watercress, are full of goodness but have a strong flavour that your little one may need to learn to like. Don’t try to coax him into eating it if he doesn’t accept it at first. Be patient. Leave it off the menu for a few days and try again. You may need to offer new vegetables at least eight times before deciding that your baby doesn't like them.

Try tempting your baby with sweeter-tasting vegetables too, such as parsnip and sweet potato.

If your baby prefers finger foods rather than pureed or well-mashed foods, let him get on with it. He may like the feeling of being in control of his food rather than being spoon-fed. Try giving him cooked green beans, steamed broccoli florets, or soft-cooked fingers of carrot, for example.
2. Fish

You can give your baby well-mashed or flaked fish from six months onwards. Fish is particularly good for your baby. It’s a great source of protein, vitamins and minerals. The omega-3 fatty acids in fish, particularly oily fish such as fresh salmon and mackerel, are important for your baby's brain development.

When you give your baby any fish, make sure it’s cooked thoroughly. It should begin to flake and be opaque. Always check the fish carefully and remove any bones.

There are some types of fish that your baby shouldn't eat. Shark, swordfish and marlin have traces of mercury in them, which may affect your baby’s growing nervous system.

If you're worried about food allergies, there’s no need to delay introducing fish. Rest assured that there's no evidence that introducing fish later on makes allergy less likely.
3. Poultry and red meat

Meat is an excellent source of protein and a good source of nutrients such as iron and zinc. It also contains a small amount of vitamin D. When your baby is six months or seven months, the stores of iron that he built up when you were pregnant are starting to run out. So it's important to introduce other sources of iron into his meals.

Once your baby is happily eating pureed or well-mashed fruit and vegetables, you can move on to poultry and red meat. Although you may not think of meat as an obvious weaning food, pureed or blended poultry or meat is a great food for your baby.

Start with soft, cooked poultry, such as chicken. Then you can introduce red meats, such as pork, beef or lamb.

Always take care to cook any meat thoroughly, until the juices run clear, and remove any bones.
4. Pulses and beans

Pulses and beans are another good source of protein and iron. They’re quick and easy to cook to a soft texture that your baby will be able to manage, and are good substitutes for meat or fish.

If your baby is eating a vegetarian diet, try to give him pulses, such as beans, lentils or chickpeas, twice a day. Other meat alternatives which are also good sources of protein are thoroughly cooked eggs or tofu.

Try mixing lentils or other cooked pulses, such as chickpeas, with vegetables or fruits to help your baby to absorb the iron in them. For example, you could try giving your baby well-mashed or pureed lentils with carrots or sweet potatoes. The vitamin C in the vegetables helps your baby's body to absorb the iron.

It’s fine to use tinned pulses and beans, but check the label to make sure there’s no added sugar or salt.
5. Milk

Although your baby is eating solid food, his regular milk is still an important food for him as a source of calcium and other nutrients.

When you first start introducing solid foods, your baby will be eating very small amounts of food, probably just one teaspoon or two teaspoons per meal. He’ll still be getting most of his nutrients from breastmilk or formula milk. So keep giving him regular breastfeeds, or between 500ml and 600ml of formula milk a day, as his main drink until he’s a year old.

You don’t need to give your baby follow-on milk. His usual milk and a variety of solid foods will give your growing baby all the nourishment he needs.

By the time your baby is a year old, he’ll be eating three meals a day, perhaps with one or two snacks in between. By then, you’ll find that he has dropped a milk feed or two. After that, you can give your baby cow's milk as a main drink if you want to.

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