How to Introduce Solid Foods Into Your Infant's Diet

• 1). Begin introducing solid foods into your infant's diet by offering your child a few tablespoons of infant cereal at mealtime. Rice cereal is a mild cereal that is a good beginner food e as it's easy to swallow and digest.
  
  
• 2). Add fruits, on a gradual basis, such as mashed bananas, strained fruits, cooked mashed peaches and applesauce. Introduce new foods one at a time, every few days, so that you can monitor allergic reactions.
  
  
• 3). Add strained vegetables after your infant has been taking solid foods, such as fruits and cereals, for about a month. Cooked potatoes, squash, carrots and peas in small amounts, mashed or pureed, are good choices.
  
  
• 4). Feed your infant strained meats after they become accustomed to eating strained vegetables for a few weeks. Consult your pediatrician on how to balance your child's diet if you want him to follow a vegetarian diet.
  
  
• 5). Add homemade foods only after you introduce your baby to most baby foods. Don't make more than enough for a meal or two unless you plan to freeze servings individually.