Feeding a one year old
It is important to prepare foods including vegetables to suit baby’s level of development. It is not unusual to find some babies rejecting their bowls of cereal or pureed food at one year of age as they look for something more challenging to experiment with. Also, if you keep feeding your child bowls of cereal and pureed vegetables and meat, he may get rather “lazy” with his feeding habits and reject food that offers a coarser texture than what he is used to.
Chopped foods should be quite suitable by the time baby is approaching one. Such vegetables as carrots and potatoes can still be boiled till they are tender, but instead of grating them, cut them into tiny cubes or use a food processor to chop them up.
Even spinach and other leafy greens can be boiled till tender and chopped roughly (with the stalks removed, of course) before being mixed into your baby’s food. Avoid varieties of stringy or fibrous vegetables as they can cause choking. Use the chopped vegetables with porridge, boiled egg noodles, mee sua or chopped macaroni for a variation of meals.
By the time your baby turns one, he might be managing fine with finger foods and under supervision, you could let him hold a carrot finger (boiled till tender) to nibble on.
Baby Food and Storage of Baby Food
