A nutritious and scientific Japanese snack menu for 6 months old baby

Instruct mothers on a detailed, nutritious, detailed Japanese-style snack menu for 6-month-old babies without taking much time.

How to prepare a Japanese-style snack menu for your 6-month-old baby to not lose time and still have a nutritious meal?

Considered as a progressive weaning method with clear steps by practicing feeding babies from thin to thick, from smooth to rough, Japanese weaning is still the choice of many modern Vietnamese mothers today.

However, many mothers feel a bit agitated with the Japanese weaning method when having to prepare each type of food separately (instead of pouring everything together and blending into a mixture like traditional porridge).

According to the experience of many mothers who breastfeed their babies through Japanese weaning times, mothers can reduce the time to prepare food for their babies by setting up a week's menu and then freezing each type of food. When it comes to baby food, just thawing and reheating the baby is the easiest thing.

Mom can refer to the preparation of Japanese-style snacks for 6-month babies like Bear's below.

 

How to start with Japanese weaning for 6-month-old baby?

Theoretically, Japanese-style weaning for 6-month-old babies will be done as follows:

- Number of meals: 2 meals / day

- Time to eat: mothers should feed the baby at 10am and the rest before 7pm.

- The rawness of porridge: the rate of 1 rice / 10 water Older babies can increase coarseness.

- Protein: 5 - 10g (25g tofu, eggs less than 2/3 of the yolk)

- Porridge: 5 - 30g (rice, noodles, bread)

- Vegetables: 5 - 20g. Some mother vegetables can be processed for the baby such as carrots, pumpkin, catch cabbage, broccoli, apples, bananas ...

However, the most important part of the 6-month weaning period is to help your baby learn to chew and swallow and learn to taste the food.

Therefore, mothers need to keep track of their baby's schedule to find out the most suitable time for weaning for babies as well as help them excited about weaning and recognize their favorite taste in this starting time.

 

Types of vegetables and fruits mother can use to make a Japanese weaning menu for babies 6 months

Note about the foods mothers can use to build a Japanese-style snack menu for 6-month-old babies

During this first month of weaning, your baby's immature digestive system takes time to adapt to absorbing foods other than breast milk and formula.

Therefore, not all dishes are suitable for the baby's stomach. According to nutrition experts, babies should only be fed foods such as:

- Starch: At  this stage, mothers can add starch to their baby from some food groups such as rice porridge, bread, bananas, potatoes, taro, sweet potatoes, taro.

- Protein: protein is added to the baby through some foods such as tofu, egg yolks, white fish, peas, ...

Vitamins and minerals: through foods such as cabbage green vegetables, broccoli, spinach ... or some tubers such as carrots, pumpkin, onions, fruits such as tomatoes, apples , strawberry, precious, banana, papaya, ...

5 Japanese-style snacks for 6-month babies for mothers to refer

1. Grated carrot porridge

 

Carrot porridge for babies 6 months to eat

Material

Mashed carrot (2 teaspoons)

- White porridge (2 teaspoons).

Making

- Crush the porridge and put it into a bowl.

- Crush carrots and put on porridge.

- When feeding the baby, the mother can feed the baby 1 teaspoon of white porridge first and then feed the baby 1 teaspoon of ground carrot. You can also mix 2 things together and feed your baby at the same time.

2. Vegetable sandwich soup 

Material

- 1 slice of pillow bread

- 100ml of vegetable broth

- 10g apple

 

Making: 

Use bread that has removed the hard edge, shred it and boil it with vegetable broth until the bread softens and swells.

Cooked, steamed apples, crushed and then scooped onto the bread bowl.

Scoop out the bowl for the baby to eat.

3. Pumpkin milk soup 

 

Pumpkin soup for new babies

Material

- 20g pumpkin

- 1/2 cup breast milk or formula (60 ml)

Making

- Take the pumpkin peeled, washed, cut small pieces and boil for 5 minutes.

- Mix the powdered milk according to the correct proportions to the required amount and then add the ripe pumpkin and simmer until soft.

- Bring the mixture on crushed and feed the baby.

4. Potato soup

 

Baby potato soup

Material:

- Cooked potatoes 5g

- Vegetable broth or chicken broth

Making:

- Mash potatoes and brush through the sieve

- Mix potatoes with broth depending on the smooth consistency suitable for the baby's ability to swallow

5. Fish and spinach congee

 

Fish porridge with vegetables for babies when they are 6 months old

Material:

- White fish meat 5-10 g

- Spinach 10-15g

- White porridge: 5-10 g

Making:

- Steamed fish cooked, removed from the skin and bones and finely crushed, filtered through a sieve with dashi broth or vegetable broth

- Boiled spinach, minced comb through the sieve

- Put the fish and vegetables on the porridge and then feed the baby to each of them separately or mix a little together and feed the baby.

In addition to the 5 popular Japanese-style snacks for 6-month-old babies mentioned above, mothers can flexibly combine starchy foods, vegetables and protein to form many favorite menus for babies this month.

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