What should I feed my 8-12 month-old baby?

• are learning to crawl and pull themselves up to stand
• can bite well and can chew soft lumps
• are interested in different or more types of foods.

Food ideas

• Mashed vegetables mixed with minced (or finely chopped) cooked meat, chicken, kai moana, egg or slightly mashed cooked legumes.
• Rice, or chopped-up noodles or pasta or rice.
• Add chopped soft fruit to yoghurt or custard.
• Offer breakfast cereal, such as porridge, wheat biscuits or infant muesli.
• Introduce slightly firmer fruit and vegetables such as soft ripe kiwifruit or cooked kūmara.
• Finely-grated raw carrot or apple.
• Toast fingers.