Alright - for those of you that don’t have little ones that are gearing up for or who have just started babyfood… sorry, this post may not be very interesting for you. I have a friend - Andrea, that lives overseas and has just started her little one, Aashini, on solids. She is wondering what kind of path to follow when introducing foods and I told her I would help her out, so here goes!
I try to wait till about 5 months before starting food - no reason really - just kind of how it happens. Emma got her first taste off food last week - but I haven’t offered it again. It will be sporadic till she hits 6 months and then we will start offering it daily.
We start off by offering whole grain rice cereal. I buy Earth’s Best, it’s whole grain and organic. After the first week or so of the cereal we then offer banana or avacado. Both are great second foods and are so easy to prepare! Just get a nice ripe piece, mash it up, mix in a little breasmilk and voila - babyfood!
The third food introduced is sweet potato. All my kids have just loved sweet potato and like banana and avacado it real easy. Just cook it up, let it cool, scoop it out, mash, add milk and eat up!
We give them one solid feeding a day, usually around lunch. Changing up the food offered every few days. We keep this up till they are 6 months - then the fun begins!
Here is the schedule we use to add foods:
6 months: homemade brown rice cereal, homemade oatmeal, winter squash, papaya, mango and pears.
7 months: hard boiled egg yolk, carrots, green beans, summer squash, white potatoes, peaches, cottage cheese and tofu
8 months: apricot, apple, cantaloupe, honeydew, watermelon, plums, broccoli, okra, wheat germ, seeds, hard cheeses
9 months: brussels sprouts, cauliflower, spinach, beets, kale, eggplant, rutabaga, cooked onion, turnips, pineapple, beans
10 months: pasta, bulgur
At nine months we start mixing a cereal with beans to make a porridge. Remember, this is all assuming you have no food allergies in your family.
We love to mix and match stuff too and come up with some really yummy recipes. One of our favorite things to do is mix up different fruit combos , like rice (or oats) with apple, banana, peach and mango. All of our kids devoured it!!
I hope this helps a bit. Let me know if you need any directions on how to make anything. I have a lot of recipes and ideas 
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through the beautiful Texas Hill Country.
while Emma and I hung back and relaxed. Miss Tara, who helps run the corral with Cowboy Josh,
took Emma on a little ride. She looked so cute! 
Both girls did really good! Emma just hung out in the sun on her blanket.
I chose to opt out this year… but, I did do it last year…it’s a long way down!
It was crazy! They loved it of course!
