Hydrating summer drinks for babies

One of the following: Please ensure you avoid sour fruits as babies tend to get more colic during summers with so

Do not add sugar or salt, if mentioned in the recipe please skip. Do not mix fruits with curd or milk.

Dry Dates Juice

Barley water

Watermelon Juice

Sweet orange banana smoothie

Orange apple smoothie

Pineapple Banana smoothie

Plain buttermilk

Dilute curd with water, churn or blend.

Organic sweet raisin water

. Rinse raisins well. Soak them in water for few hours. Blend and filter.

INDIAN BABY FOOD CHART FOR

BABIES ABOVE 8 MONTHS
Wake up 6 am

Milk (skip milk if baby wakes up after 8 am, make a milk based breakfast from breakfast section)

Breakfast 7.30 to 8 am
One of the following:

Apple rice cereal

Rice milk cereal

Sprouts vegetable soup

Moong dal soup

Egg, (Fully boiled or scrambled in very few drops of oil)(babies above one year)

Idli with rasam or sambar (sambar for babies older than 12 months)

Set dosa

atta halwa (Wheat cereal)

apple oats porridge

vegetable oats porridge(blend it in a blender till smooth)

milk oats porridge

Sabudana kheer

Sago carrot payasam

Barley kheer

Apple Ragi halwa

Ragi malt with badam powder

chickpeas soup (babies older than 15 months)

barley vegetable soup (blend till smooth)

Sweet corn vegetable soup(blend till smooth)

quick fix breakfast (for 8 to 18 months):

Nestum rice (stage 1) with almond milk

Nestum rice with homemade curd (plain yogurt), add water as needed while mixing

Mid-morning 10 to 10.15 am
One of the following:
Steamed apple (raw apple for babies older than 12 months)

Banana or steamed kerala banana (if baby has cold)

Papaya

Chikoo (sapota)

Avocado

Melon

Other fruits like watermelon, pears, oranges

or 2 tbsp of fresh homemade plain curd / yogurt (3 times a week, avoid when the baby has cold &
temperature. As the baby grows you can increase the quantity)

Lunch 11.30 to 12.30 pm

Try using whole grains like
broken wheat (daliya).

half brown rice with half white rice.

half millets with half white rice.

Soak them for about 2 hours in warm water before cooking. Use hulled foxtail millets known a
biyyam/ navanakki- for babies above 10 months.
Try one of the following

Dalia khichdi (vegetable broken wheat food)

Sweet pongal

Venn pongal(skip pepper, hing)

Dal khichdi with one of the vegetables: spinach, methi, pumpkin, carrot, ridge gourd, bottle go

Methi khichdi

Tomato dal khichdi (no veggies)

Potato rice

Sweet potato rice (make the same way as potato rice, you can add a bit of jaggery instead of

plantain rice recipe (raw cooking banana with rice)

urad dal khichdi

vegetable oats khichdi

Chickpea toddler meal for toddlers not for babies

Indian baby food with chickpeas and methi leaves (11 months, only for babies not having coli

mashed rice, dal with tomato rasam, rasam made with rasam powder

mashed rice with moong dal rasam or dal ka paani (bassaru)

mashed rice with drumstick sambar or sambar (15 months and above,mash up the veggies a
using homemade sambar powder)
For a lighter meal, if the baby has colic
mashed rice with dal ka paani with a pinch of ajwain(strained dal soup)

Mashed rice with milk

Mashed rice with yogurt (avoid this frequently)

Mashed rice & banana (if needed puree)

Mashed rice with tamarind / daniya rasam

Mashed rice, carrot with daniya rasam

sabudana porridge with salt and ajwain (vaamu / carom seeds) powder

rice porridge with salt and ajwain powder

Mid noon 2.30 to 3 pm

Fruits or steam cooked mashed veggies

Evening snack -5 to 5.30 pm

One of the following:
Large serving of Milk

whole grain cereal

Ragi malt with milk (almond powder can be included)

Millet porridge (will post the recipe shortly)

Almond milk with powdered corn flakes or nestum rice (stage 1)

carrot baby food (can skip almonds)

carrot milkshake or carrot juice smoothie (babies above 1 year)

Dinner 7 to 7.45 pm

Please Note: Feeding late can cause indigestion and the infant may not sleep due to colic. Avoid f
Dinner should always be light, nutritious, mostly vegetable based.
For babies from 10 to 12 months prefer light foods from breakfast section. Avoid egg & nuts.

For babies above 12 months : Any foods mentioned in the breakfast and lunch can also be se

Other options
mashed rice with dal ka paani (strained dal soup)

Mashed rice with milk

Mashed rice, carrot with daniya rasam

rice porridge with veggies

Rice with dal ka pani (bassaru) and light cooked vegetables.

Rice with tomato rasam and light steamed or cooked vegetables.

Bed time 8.30 to 9 pm

Large serving of Milk. Make sure there is a gap of at least 1 hour 30 mins in between the completio
For babies above 12 months: If the baby is still hungry after the milk, can feed some light crackers.

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