Discover the importance of transitioning from purees to exciting new food textures for your baby. Learn about safe finger foods like hard-boiled eggs and tofu that can enhance their eating experience. Get practical tips for preparing a variety of textures, even if cooking isn't your forte. Understand how healthy fats play a key role in development and explore ways to encourage independent eating, reducing the chances of picky eating in the future.
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Hard-Boiled Eggs for Texture
Use hard-boiled eggs as finger foods for your baby by slicing them into uniform pieces.
This offers two textures: the rubbery egg white and the mealy egg yolk, providing nutritional benefits.
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Beyond Purees in Baby Foods
Purees are essential but not the only texture appropriate for babies starting solids.
Baby-led weaning embraces purees and finger foods to support varied texture experience for babies.
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Phased Baby-Led Weaning Plan
Follow a phased baby-led weaning program progressing from single-texture to multi-texture foods.
The Baby-Led Weaning with Katie Ferraro program guides 20 weeks of advancing food textures with recipes and meal plans.
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#499: Name another texture besides puree that your baby can safely eat. Most people can’t describe safe textures for finger foods…but that’s exactly what we’re doing in this episode - running down 10 new food textures for your baby to try…that aren’t purees.
Listen to this episode to learn:
How to help early eaters in phase 1 of baby-led weaning progress beyond puree textures
What to do if you’re scared that your baby is going to choke if you offer textures other than purees
How to increase the variety of textures your baby is offered…even if you don’t like to cook
Not sure about which foods to offer your baby next? Get your copy of my original 100 FIRST FOODS list on my free online video workshop called BABY-LED WEANING FOR BEGINNERS.
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Want guided help on how to make all of the 100 FIRST FOODS™ safely for your baby? My program BABY-LED WEANING WITH KATIE FERRARO has a 100 FIRST FOODS daily meal plan and everything else you need to start solid foods safely with baby-led weaning. CLICK HERE TO JOIN.
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Baby-Led Weaning with Katie Ferraro