You don’t have to feed bland food to your baby and it’s outdated advice that every baby has to eat only single ingredient foods several times before trying a new food. If I waited three days between introducing every new food, it would limit the variety that Jack would be exposed to. The exception is common allergens. I’m only introducing single ingredient foods with common allergens and waiting 3 days between introducing these.
Jack started his solids journey with single ingredient pureed foods but now we have advanced to simple and tasty meals with a handful of ingredients. I can tell that Jack enjoys this more – let’s face it, meals are tastier than single ingredients! My little man has been a great little eater so far and I can attribute that to the variety of tasty food that he has been getting, being able to self feed and perhaps tasting a variety of foods through amniotic fluid while he was in utero!
I’m centring Jacks meals around iron-rich foods such as lentils, beans and tofu. I also make sure that there is a source of fat and some fibre in there. I’m not adding salt to his food. I am offering a new food every day so he gets used different tastes and his palette is diversified. We will be starting to advance textures shortly but so far he has been rocking the purées. It’s such a joy to watch him eat and explore food.