What to Feed Your Baby

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You might want to spend the extra amount for foods you cook entirely, like green beans, or foods with thin skins, like peaches or plums, to avoid the pesticides that may have been sprayed on them while they were growing.

Peel fruits before cooking or pureeing them to lessen the potential for the baby choking.

Avoid allergy-inducing foods in the beginning (wheat, citrus fruits, eggs, and peanut products) and vegetables such as spinach, beets, turnips, and collard greens that are high in nitrates.

Always remember to be careful with storage. Unused portions can be refrigerated for up to 24 hours and then brought up to somewhere between room temperature and the baby’s body temperature (a few seconds in the microwave should not hurt the foods, unless package instructions say otherwise, but hot spots can develop that can burn the baby’s mouth, so it is often better to let the container sit in a small bowl of warm wate

Once four vegetables are tolerated without reaction, you can move onto fruits, again, one at a time for three to seven days. As the fruits are introduced, the cereal and any of the vegetables are still used. To make it easy, you can give cereal and a fruit in the morning and a vegetable with or without cereal in the afternoon, the cereal being used if you have a hungrier baby or one who prefers to have the taste of the two together rather than a vegetable alone.