Food for Children from 4 months to 12 months
Foods that are Recommended for Children of 4 to 6 Months of Age
- Fruit: apples, pears, bananas, kiwis, grapes, peaches and apricots.
- Citric Fruit: oranges, lemons, mandarins, grapefruit.
Note: Make sure to be very careful with strawberries, melons and cherries because some kids have allergic reactions to them.
- Vegetables: Carrots, onions, green peas.
- Starch: Potatoes and sweet potatoes.
- Meat: Chicken and veal.
- Cereals: Rice flour, four made out of cereals, cornstarch and tapioca.
When a Child is Six Months Old
- Fruit: All fruits can be given to the child.
- Vegetables: Celery and parsnip, cabbage, beets, spinach, turnip, pumpkin etc.
- Meat: Chicken and Veal.
- Fish: White fish.
- Eggs: ½ egg or an egg yolk.
When a Child is Nine to Twelve Months of Age These foods can be given to a child but only in a very small quantity.
- Dry vegetables: Lentils and garbanzos.
- Tender vegetables: Peas.
- Fish: Blue fish.
- Meat: Sirloin and pig loin, lamb and rabbit.
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