Best Stage 3 Baby Food (Recipes + Tips) (2024)

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What is an example of stage 3 baby food? ›

Stage 3: Age 9 to 12 Months

These foods have more texture and small chunks to encourage chewing. Examples of stage 3 foods include: Beech-Nut Naturals Stage 3 Chicken Lasagna. Earth's Best Chunky Orchard Fruit (Chunky Blend)

Start with infant cereals (with added iron), vegetables, fruit, meat, chicken, fish, cooked tofu and legumes. Start with 1 or 2 foods at a time so your baby can learn about the flavour and texture of each new food.

Stage 3 (typically 10-12 months old, but may occur sooner): At this stage, you can slowly replace purees with soft, chewable chunks of food, and offer your baby more finger foods that they can pick up and feed themselves.

What are some Stage 3 foods for baby? Some examples include very soft risotto, soft oatmeal, pastina in a sauce or a tiny amount of broth, mashed meatballs, finely shredded and very soft beef or chicken, very soft scrambled eggs, and baby food purees that are thick and have soft chunks.

Formula Transition Guide

Start by reducing your usual volume of formula to 75%. Add 25% of the new formula. Do this on every feed for 2 days. Then reduce your usual formula to 50% and add 50% of the new formula, again, do this on every feed for 2 days.

The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (AND) recommends starting with simple items, like mashed banana or avocado. 6 You can then slowly incorporate new foods and flavors, such as beets, broccoli, and pureed meats. Reserve chunkier textures for older babies.

While generations in the 1900's often started solids with commercial baby food purées, there's no developmental need or evidence for starting solids with purées. In fact, research shows that there's an optimal window for introducing chewable food between 6 and 9 months of age.

Though there's a greater variety of foods babies eat now, formula or breastmilk continues to be their primary source of nutrition until age 1.

What finger foods can a 7 month have? ›

Start with menu items like pieces of soft cheese; small pieces of pasta or bread; finely chopped soft vegetables; and fruits like bananas, avocado, and ripe peaches or nectarines. These foods should require minimal chewing, as your baby may not yet have teeth.

The stage at which he becomes ready for chunkier textures depends on many factors, from his physical development to his sensitivity to texture. But as a guide, it's wise to try to gradually alter the consistency of his foods from seven months onwards, and aim to have stopped pureeing completely by 12 months.

Perfect for babies ages 8 to 12 months, this Gerber baby food stage 3 exposes babies to a variety of delicious tastes and ingredient combinations, which is important to help them accept new flavors.

Each jar contains 2 grams of protein, 1 gram of fiber, 3 grams of healthy fat, and 25% recommended daily value of Potassium. As a Stage 3 puree, Beech-Nut Naturals Superblends are ideal for babies 8 months and up.

These tasty, wholesome Gerber^® 3rd Foods^® were designed so you and your Crawler can make the most of mealtime, no matter who is holding the spoon. Our 3rd Foods^® baby food recipes help expose babies to a variety of tastes & ingredients, which is important to help them accept new flavors.

Stage 2: 6 to 9 months (thicker texture that is strained or mashed) Stage 3: 10 to 12 months (mush that has soft, chewable, small chunks) Stage 4: After 12 months (finger foods and small, soft pieces of foods you share from your own supper)