Indian 8 Month Baby Food Chart, Indian Baby Food recipes, By 8 months, your baby may figure out how to use her thumb and forefinger to pick up food. This motor skill is known asa pincer grasp. Baby will let you know that she's ready for self-feeding by grabbing the spoon when you are feeding or snatching food off the plate.
Offering finger foods to your baby is the best way to encourage self-feeding. Hence, you should include finger foods in your eight-month-old diet chart and other meals. Don't force the baby, though, as each baby is unique and adopts eating habits at their own pace. Just keep trying your best to encourage his eating habits.
By this time, you can also include a small number of spices in your baby's diet. Introduce one spice at a time and wait for three days to introduce the next spice to check out allergic reactions.
What are finger foods?
Any bite-size pieces of food that the baby can pick up quickly and eat by themselves are called finger foods. Finger foods can be introduced to a baby's diet from 8 months.
Finger foods help to teach the baby to chew, encourage self-feeding & introduce different textures! Do supervise the baby when eating finger food to avoid the risk of choking! Babies can try finger foods even if they don't have teeth. The baby can bite the food using the gums, which also helps speech muscles develop!
Cooked carrots, peas, cut apples, papaya, banana, boiled potato salad, crumbled paneer, and chopped boiled egg are some examples of finger food.
Always remember that solids food can't replace the nutrients breastmilk or formula provides during the first year. So consider including solids in your baby's diet as complementary feeding.Please read on sevenmonths baby food chart (to cross-check the foods you have introduced at seven months)before you plan a chart for your eight months baby food.And Consider preferringhomemade meals for your baby, which are safe.
What foods can be included in an 8-monthbaby's diet?
At eight months, you can introduce the below foods in addition to the 6 & 7 months food chart.
What's new on eight months of baby food?
Fruits: blueberries, cherries, dates, figs, grapes, kiwi, mangoes, apricots
Vegetables: White Potato, broccoli, cauliflower, eggplant, onions, squash, zucchini
Cereals: wheat, broken wheat (Dalia), oats
: chickpeas (white & black chana), urad dal, green gram
Dairy: Curd or Yogurt, cottage cheese (paneer), tofu
Non-Vegetarian: Egg yolk
Spices: Turmeric, garlic, ginger, asafoetida, cumin seeds, pepper, coriander seeds, fennel seeds, caroms, fenugreek, mustard seeds, cinnamon, nutmeg, cardamom(all can be added in little amounts say a pinch)
The complete list of food options for eight months baby:
Here is the full list of options you can include in 8 month old baby's diet.
Fruits: Apple, Avocado, Banana, Pears, muskmelon, Peaches, Plums, Prune, Chikku, papaya,blueberries, cherries, dates, figs, grapes, kiwi, mangoes
Vegetables: Carrot, Pumpkin, Sweet Potato, beetroot, bottle gourd, tomato, ash gourd, green beans, peas,White Potato, broccoli, cauliflower, eggplant, onions
Cereals & Grains: Rice, Ragi, Barley, Semolina/Suji/Rava, sabudhana,wheat, broken wheat (Dalia), oats
: Yellow Moong Dal, masoor dal,chickpeas (white & black chana), urad dal, green gram
Dairy: Ghee, Butter, Cheese, Curd or Yogurt, cottage cheese (paneer), tofu
Non-Vegetarian: Egg yolk
Spices: Turmeric, garlic, ginger, asafoetida, cumin seeds, pepper, coriander seeds, fennel seeds, caroms, fenugreek, mustard seeds, cinnamon, nutmeg, cardamom(all can be added in little amounts say a pinch)
Sample Food chart or Diet plan for eight month old baby
For eight months baby, you can offer two meals and an optional snack that can be finger food or any light snack for a day. The rest should be breastfeeding or formula feeding. Also, if your baby is not ready for finger foods and rejects them same, offer mashed food instead( but continue trying Finger foods once a day). Hence I have given both options (finger foods & mashed food) in the diet chart. Choose the timings for meals and snacks according to your baby's preference.
How much quantity per day?
For the quantity of food, always be guided with your baby's hunger as appetite varies from baby to baby, and most babies change daily. Here is an approximate amount:
- Vegetables - ½ cup
- Fruits - ½ cup
- Cereal - ½ cup
Introduce one food at a time and followthree days rule, which will help determine allergic reactions to a particular food.
8 Months Baby Food Recipes
Here is the collection of8 Months Baby Food Recipes. Pleasecustomize the below sample charts with the mentioned recipes that can be included in 8 months baby’s diet based on availability, convenience, and your baby’s preference.
Sample Food Chart for 8 Months Baby
Here is the samplefood chartwith recipes (please click on the hyperlink to get the recipes) for eight months baby food,
