It starts off with a simple taste of baby food. Tasting sessions of up to 1 teaspoon each session. Mashed peas, mashed broccoli, porridge.. basically soft food that baby are prepared for. This is the time to introduce baby to new tastes.
If baby is adventurous, they would love these tasting sessions. Some babies do not take change easily. If baby refuses the newest food, you could give it a well-recognized taste by having a little breast milk or formula milk towards the food before offering it to baby.
A significant thing to note here is that the food you feed baby at this time in time shapes the youngsters tastes. Wean baby onto broccoli and that could well become his / her favourite food.
Which is exactly what happened with the kids. When they were babies, I became on this health food craze and bought broccoli based baby food in large quantities. Now, broccoli will be the only veggie they would take.
In reality these days, my 2 kids, a 6 yr old and a 7 years old would fight over a plate of broccoli whenever it can be served. We normally make an effort to ration the broccoli but mealtime often ends with one of them grabbing the plate of broccoli and dumping each of the broccoli on his plate and take care of it off. One other kid at that time would have managed to grab some broccoli over plate though, but us grownups would be left without any broccoli to nibble on.
This is also enough time to get baby to consume and to appreciate carrots, spinach as well as the usual meats your family might eat. Tofu would be a great food show them to baby since it is soft and very healthy. As baby grows up, a healthy porridge filled with veggies and proteins can be really good. This is the time to serve baby mashed up versions of all of the healthy foods you hope they would continue eating way past babyhood.
You should buy all sorts of baby food in stores that sell baby products. For convenience sake, I got myself plenty of bottled baby food in my baby. I'd use a clean spoon to secure baby's portion for 1 meal and refrigerate the remainder. A microwave would heat up that meal nicely. Anything not consumed in 72 hours would be dumped. Anyone who complains about wastage could be welcome to take the leftovers.
Dry cereal baby foods are perfect too. Add water, mix well and also the food is able to serve.
It's also possible to make your own baby food. For that, you need a food mill or mixer. Just boil the veggies, then utilize the food maker to grind or chop it in a smooth paste.
One thing though, baby's immunity is not as strong as ours, so you've got to be very careful about hygiene if you prepare the meal. I would sterilize everything I can that comes into connection with baby's food, to help keep everything as sterile as you can.
Whether you be ready made baby food or you could make your own, this is the time to steer your child towards appropriate food choices. The tastes developed can now make a major alteration in the future.