Recipes for self-weaning at 6 months: advice from the nutritionist
Introduction
If you are here, it means that, most likely, you have a baby of a few months who is approaching the time to start complementary feeding on demand.
In the following lines, you will find some recipes for baby-led weaning at 6 months, healthy and tasty treats to offer from the first approaches to solid foods.
The contents of the article, which is preceded by an index to allow you to delve deeper into the aspects that are most interesting to you, can be enriched with those of the video course “Practical, easy and stress-free self-weaning” , conceived and curated by Doctor Federica Dell'Oro, the nutrition biologist of the DrSilva team (you can find it at the end of the paragraph and it contains many other recipes).
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Baby-led weaning recipes: breakfast ideas
Let's start by focusing on recipes for baby-led weaning at 6 months - the suggestions in the following lines are also good for the following months - talking about breakfasts .
Before getting into the heart of the suggestions, I would like to remind you that introducing allergenic foods right from the start of on-demand complementary feeding is not a problem. However, as mentioned in this article , it is advisable to introduce only one allergen per day.
Porridge
Porridge is a fantastic idea when it comes to recipes for baby-led weaning at 6 months and is suitable not only for breakfast, but also for a snack .
How to prepare it? With a vegetable drink, strictly without sugar, and with oat flakes, not whole, small.
The oat flakes should be cooked for 5 - 10 minutes or until they reach the desired consistency.
You can start with a base of about 80 ml of vegetable drink.
This quantity may vary depending on the level of softness you are aiming to achieve.
To garnish it, you can use cinnamon, but also crushed or grated apple .
Those who want to sweeten the flavour can do so with a teaspoon of 100% dried fruit cream , taking care to observe the caution mentioned above regarding allergens.
