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Discover tasty and healthy ideas for your baby’s weaning adventure!
At around 7 months, your baby’s weaning journey is probably well underway, as they have lots of fun (and make lots of mess) exploring different tastes, textures, and flavours.
If you’re weaning with spoon-fed purees, you can now introduce thicker consistencies, lumpier textures and exciting new flavour combinations. You can also start to offer soft finger foods that are just the right size for little hands to hold (the size of an average chip is about right). If you’re baby-led weaning, think about some other finger foods you can add to your little one's breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Either way, we’ve got plenty of baby-weaning recipes for you to choose from. Let’s take a look.
Spot the weaning signs: Is my baby ready to wean?
By the time your baby is 6 months old, they’ll be ready for their first tastes of solid food, although, at first, weaning will be more about getting your baby used to food and how it tastes and feels than how much they eat1, 2.
There are certain signs to look out for that will help you to know that your baby is ready to start on solid foods. If your baby can1:
- Swallow food (without spitting it out again)
- Independently pick up food and put it in their mouth
- Hold their head steady and stay sitting up
- Coordinate their hand, eye, and mouth coordination
That’s a pretty good indication that your little one is ready to wean and that it’s time to start exploring baby weaning recipes - and we’re on hand to help.
Breakfast
Take a look at our tasty and healthy baby breakfast ideas to help your little one rise and shine.
A few more baby breakfasts you can try
As well as the suggestions above, explore some more simple and easy-to-make breakfast finger foods:
- Baby porridge with milk and fruit. Try mashing or slicing some bananas or offering soft-cooked pieces of apple and pear.
- Baby muesli - add a side of mashed blueberries or finely sliced strawberries.
- Natural yoghurt with pieces of mashed or finely chopped fresh fruit. You could also try fromage frais.
- Toast fingers topped with mashed avocado or banana.
- Hard, soft-boiled or scrambled eggs and fingers of toast: ensure the eggs you use have the Red Lion stamp3.
Lunch and dinner
Need baby lunch ideas that work for dinnertime too?
You’re in the right place.
Remember, when you’re preparing food for your baby, make sure that the food is properly cooled to the right temperature, and that meals are pureed or mashed to a texture that’s suitable for your baby. If you’re baby-led weaning, make sure that all finger foods are soft-cooked.
Explore more baby lunch ideas that taste just as good for dinner
Be spoilt for choice with a few more tasty and healthy baby weaning recipes:
- Carrot stick – soft-boiled sticks of carrot are ideal for your little one to hold and munch on. As an extra treat, offer some houmous for them to dip into.
- Apple slices – fresh slices of soft-cooked apple are perfect for little fingers.
- Bread sticks – try lightly toasted bagels or strips of pitta bread.
Can I use these recipes if I’m baby-led weaning?
Yes! Our baby weaning recipes above are tasty and healthy options for your growing baby’s diet.
If you’re just starting to explore baby-led weaning, you might notice that your baby ‘gags’ on certain foods. This is nothing to worry about; it’s just your baby taking control of their food. Rest assured that your baby is born with a natural gag reflex, which will help them to bring up any food they can’t manage.
- NHS. Your baby's first solid foods [online 2022]. Available at https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/baby/weaning-and-feeding/babys-first-solid-foods/#:~:text=When%20to%20start%20introducing%20solid,to%20the%20idea%20of%20eating. [Accessed April 2025]
- HSE. Starting your baby on solid foods (weaning) [online 2022]. Available at https://www2.hse.ie/babies-children/weaning-eating/weaning/solid-foods/. [Accessed April 2025]
- NHS. Foods to avoid giving babies and young children [2022]. Available at https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/baby/weaning-and-feeding/foods-to-avoid-giving-babies-and-young-children/. [Accessed April 2025]
Last reviewed: November 2025
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