Fun Foods to Try for Baby’s First Solids

Our daughter will turn six months old the day after Thanksgiving! What fun, simple ideas do you have for a first taste of solids?
—Time for Turkey?

I’ve written in much longer form before about starting solids. There are a few data-based principles, but the most important thing is you need to develop your own plan.There are many good first foods and approaches, which is freeing and also sometimes confusing.

Thanksgiving foods are not traditional first foods, but I like this question because it illustrates that there is no strong reason they could not be. The caution is that something like turkey may not be a great first food because the texture and need to chew is so different from what your baby is used to.

Very soft potatoes could work — including sweet potatoes — or very, very overcooked broccoli. Broadly: I’d err toward a vegetable that is somewhat overcooked to be very soft.

Have fun!