Meal Plan for Babies – May
This months Meal Plan includes 6 flavor rich and fun new recipes that will leave your baby drooling over ingredients like tofu, lentils, broccoli, basil, mangos and dried cherries. Not to mention, look at those brilliant colors!!!
Green, bright orange, red, deep purple – oh my!!
I don’t talk about it enough, but serving baby bright and colorful purees is a great way to not only have and keep them visually interested in their food but it is also a way for them to learn how to associate bright and colorful food with yummy and delicious food.
Colorful Food —> Happy Baby
Think about it this way, when was the last time you were super excited to eat a big bowl of beige flavorless soup? Ummm, like never! You want something colorful! You want something with flavor! You want it right now! A bowl of red lentil soup, orange carrot and ginger soup or even a green broccoli and leek soup. We all eat with our eyes. You want to eat something colorful, with flavor and with texture.
Your baby is no different.
This month, when you are serving your baby her meals, think about what color of purees you are giving them? Are the bright and beautiful? Are they varied at every meal (I always seem to give a ton of different orange purees to baby Parker)? Take a second and try to you give your little one the brightest, most colorful (happiest) and varied purees this month.
Do you want to hit me right now because I just gave you homework!?!?! It’s okay, I can take it:)
Eat Your Greens Puree – such a delicious way for your baby to get in some extra greens. You can use apples or leeks instead of the white potatoes if you want, and I would for sure add 1 tablespoon fresh chives or green onions for a little spring kick!
Mango + Apple + Dried Cherry Puree – a fun and easy puree that will surely delight your little ones taste buds.
Red Lentils Puree – puree this italian lentil soup for baby and serve as-is for you! 2 meals in one is the way to go!!
Roasted Banana and Blueberry Puree – I love me some roasted bananas (here and here) and I absolutely love the idea of adding blueberries with them as they roast. Go ahead and add a sprinkle of cinnamon or cloves on top before roasting for a taste sensation!
Butternut Squash with Tofu and Tahini – a great recipe that includes tofu for some extra protein for baby. When choosing a tofu, be sure to look for organic and sprouted tofu brands, which will be both GMO free and more nutrient dense then the original versions.
Pear + Cardamon Puree – this simple pear puree is a great way to switch up the same-old apple puree that I know you have in your freezer. A great puree for baby’s breakfast, lunch, snack or to mix into any other puree for a yummy combo puree.
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4 Comments on “Meal Plan for Babies – May”
Michelle,
Continued thanks for this awesome site and work. Quick question, really just a confirmation– these meal plans are for three days, I’m assuming the grocery list matches the three days as well, right? So I’d need to repeat every three days (double the grocery list), or find another meal plan and use that grocery list for the next 3 days, right?
Thanks again!
Kelsey
Hello Kelsey,
You should be able to get more then just 3 days worth of purees with the grocery list and recipes. On average each recipe gives you between 15-20 ounces of puree, so if you make all 6 recipes you would have 100+ ounces of puree. Depending on how much your little one eats, this could last you a couple of weeks. I just give a 3 day meal plan so you can get a sense of how I would approach feeding my baby. You can easily just repeat the meal plan until all of your purees are done or supplement other purees as you make them.
xoxo, Michele
Hello!
I just wanted to ask, were you breastfeeding your girls at the same time? How many ounces of milk were you feeding them?
I am afraid of giving too much to my little one (he won’t refuse food)
Thanks!
This was many moons ago, but I was probably doing a combination of breastfeeding/formula. My girls drank a ton of breastmilk/formula and would usually take roughly 30-40 ounces a day with purees on top of that. But tt really depends on how old your baby is to say how much breast milk they should be getting a day. Generally, at 6 months old babies should have mostly breastmilk/formula with purees thrown in for the experience. At 12 months, the tables should be starting to turn with more defined meals and breastmilk/formula for the in-between times.
Hope that helps, Michele