Some meals to try :-

Breakfast: porridge of rice or suji (rava) or nachni or dahlia or mashed banana Lunch: minced chicken with vegetables and potato or khichri (gruel of rice and dal with vegetables and potato) or soft ripe peeled pear or apple. Dinner: mashed boiled sweet potato with carrots with cauliflower.

9-12 months:-

• Continue 500-600ml-breast milk or infant milk formula daily.


• Dairy products: To continue to use cows milk to mix with solids. Hard cheese used as finger foods.


• Starchy foods: 3-4 servings daily May be normal adult texture.


• Vegetables and fruits: 3-4 servings Encourage lightly cooked or raw foods. Chopped or finger foods is suitable, e.g. pear, apple, chickoo, banana and melon.


• Meat and alternatives: to try mixture of different vegetables and starchy foods, dal and rice or rice and chicken or rice cheese.

Remember:- Encourage self-feeding. Some meals to try:

Breakfast :-

• Nachni khir


• Rice khir


• Sooji halwa/upma


• Boiled egg and bread finger


• Stewed apple with curd/yoghurt


• Mashed banana with milk

Lunch :-

• Khichri


• Spinach curry or spinach and tomato soup


• Mashed rice with yoghurt/curds


• Mixed seasonal vegetables soup (carrot, spinach, tomato, lauki (bottle gourd/dudhi) and potato


• Stewed fruits with custard.

Dinner :-

• Same as for lunch

After 1 year :- Minimum of 350 ml milk daily or 2 servings of dairy products e.g. curd, paneer.

• Dairy products: Whole cows milk may be now used as a drink.


• Starchy foods: minimum 4 servings daily.


• Vegetable and fruits: minimum 4 servings daily

Remember :-

Your child may now take almost all that you cook for your regular meals.

Hints for successful weaning :-

• Allow plenty of time for feeding, particularly at first.


• Choose time of the day when you both are relaxed.


• Start with small amounts of food and more frequently


• Introduce new foods mixed with familiar foods


• Try not to get upset if your baby refuses food. Take the food away and try again later. Go at your baby's pace.

Last created on 23-02-2001
Last updated on 21-04-2007