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02/22/2026
Out and about with your baby? ✈️🚗🛒
Whether you’re running errands, heading out for a road trip, or traveling with a baby, feeding your little one on the go doesn’t have to mean defaulting to packaged snacks every time.
Yes - baby food pouches can absolutely have a place. But packing whole foods helps your baby keep practicing important feeding skills, exploring textures, and learning how to love real foods… even when life feels busy.
So, here are some easy and portable foods you can pack as a snack or combine to make meals, no matter where you’re headed!
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02/20/2026
30 Days of Starting Solids with Baby Aila: Day 27
Today, Aila had liver for the first time! Liver is packed with easily absorbed (heme) iron, vitamin A, zinc, B vitamins, choline, and more - all of which support brain development, iron stores, and your baby’s overall immune function and energy levels!
Liver is SO nutritious, that we want to be careful of avoiding a Vitamin A overload. This can happen very easily, so the solution is to limit liver pâté to 1 tbsp, 2 times per week.
➡️ Age: 7 months and 1 week
➡️ Time of meal: 11:00 am (30 min after bottle)
➡️ Amount consumed: 1 tbsp liver, 1 tbsp goat cheese, 3 rice rusks, 4 carrots
➡️ Length of meal: 35 minutes
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02/20/2026
02/18/2026
For babies under 12 months, breastmilk or formula isn’t just their main source of nutrition - it’s also their main source of hydration! So when the weather heats up and you’re worried about fluids, the answer isn’t extra water. It’s more frequent milk feeds.
Small sips of water can be offered once your baby starts solids around 6 months, but they should stay small. Too much water can displace the milk they actually need.
Now let’s talk cups.
Sippy cups aren’t recommended by feeding therapists, dietitians, dentists, and speech professionals. The sucking pattern used on many traditional sippy cups is very similar to a bottle. When that pattern continues for too long, it can encourage forward tongue positioning and delay more mature swallowing skills, which may also impact speech development over time.
Instead, you can introduce an open cup (with your help at first) and a straw cup. And, early practice makes transitioning off the bottle so much smoother later on 🙌
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02/17/2026
30 Days of Starting Solids with Baby Aila: Day 26
➡️ Age: 7 months and 1 week
➡️ Time of meal: 11:45 am (45 min after bottle)
➡️ Amount consumed: 3 tofu fingers, 1 tbsp pepper
➡️ Length of meal: 25 minutes
Although she only wanted to eat tofu, we succeeded in getting her to first interact with and then taste a few bites of peppers after allowing food play to happen and modelling eating the peppers in front of her for over 4 minutes! Don’t give up and try for 30 sec and then offer some thing else or assume they don’t like it. Learning to eat and learning to like food takes TIME and PRACTICE. Sometimes it’s after 10 min of exploring it, others it’s after 10 meals of exploring it. Either way - no pressure! Notice I don’t try to put the food up to her mouth or in any way make her feel like I care if she eats it or not. I just enjoy it in front of her and let her enjoy the time watching me and touching her own until she decides she’s curious enough to try it herself!
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02/16/2026
30 Days of Starting Solids with Baby Aila: Day 25
➡️ Age: 7 months and 1 week
➡️ Length of meal: 26 min total (including a 10 min wait after offering a bit of tofu to see if symptoms of an allergy emerge)
➡️ Time of meal: 12:10 pm (45 min after milk feeding)
➡️ Amount consumed: 6 tbsp
Soy can be introduced to babies when starting solids at around 6 months of age, assuming they show all the signs of readiness to start solid foods. Because it’s considered a top allergen, it’s important to introduce soy (and other highly allergenic foods) as early as possible and continue to offer this food in the diet often.
It can be helpful (though not necessary) to look for tofu that’s been made in a calcium fortified liquid (like calcium sulfate). This can be especially important if your baby or toddler is on a dairy-free diet and is in need of added calcium sources.
Medium or firm tofu is best served as a spongy textured finger food or scrambled into a tofu scramble. This texture falls within Phase 2 of the Texture Timeline™ and requires some mashing with the gums and tongue.
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02/14/2026
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Bigger pieces of food are easier for baby to hold onto when first starting solids and offer a certain level of safety, as they can choose to pull it out of their mouth if they want or need to. Babies can also direct where it goes in their mouth by using their hands to “steer” it, essentially learning how to map out the boundaries of their mouth!
Larger pieces of food are also much easier to locate and feel in the mouth and harder to lose track of, compared to a tiny piece of food. Even when a large piece of food is bitten off, it’s much easier to isolate it and gag or spit it out. It’s also easier to move it over to the side of the mouth to mash it down and make it more manageable.
Compare that with a bite-size piece of food – say – a grain of rice or a cooked pea. The ability for a baby to be able to map out where on their tongue or inside of their cheek that tiny piece of food is, is incredibly difficult and requires a lot of coordination.
As new eaters, babies do not have the coordination in their mouth muscles to do anything but suck and swallow in the beginning. It takes many months for babies to learn how to gain enough control with their tongue to be able to “sweep” a piece of food out of the side of their mouth, onto the center of their tongue, push it up against the roof of their palate or top lip, and spit it out properly.
02/14/2026
30 Days of Starting Solids with Baby Aila: Day 24
On day 24 Aila had beef sauce & mashed potatoes with cucumber! She loved the beef sauce + mashed potato mixture but wasn’t a huge fan of the cucumber and that’s ok.
It can take 20-30+ exposures for some babies/toddlers to start liking a food. But when done early, it can work so much faster! No catering or modifying foods to get them to eat, no stress over if and how they eat (consider a positive experience in the highchair with ANY type of interaction a win).
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02/12/2026
30 Days of Starting Solids with Baby Aila: Day 23
On day 23 Aila had toast with butter + goat cheese + tomato. This was her second introduction to wheat (a top allergen) and there were no signs of an allergic reaction 🙌
The skin from the tomato did cause Aila to gag but it’s SO important to remember that we want to stay calm and not react in a way that will create negative associations with gagging for our baby. Babies typically aren’t bothered by gagging and will go right back to eating what they were eating!
One way to do this positively, calmly and confidently is to adopt the mindset that you’re there to coach and cheer your baby on through the gag!
Try saying things like:
➡️ “Good job!” 👏
➡️ “Chew chew chew!”
➡️ “Spit it out!”
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Empowering Moms with Practical Nutrition Solutions!
Edwena Kennedy is a Registered Paediatric Dietitian and mom of two behind My Little Eater - a private practice with the mission of empowering mothers with practical & effective nutrition solutions. She runs online courses & in-person workshops on introducing solids & baby led weaning, feeding toddlers & picky eating, as well as meal planning for busy families. Edwena also works with clients one-on-one both in person and online to guide moms through various feeding stages & challenges with their little one,
As a mother of two young boys herself, Edwena understands the overwhelm and worry mothers can face when encountering feeding issues with their child. She takes evidence based strategies and combines them with strategies that work, from both personal experience and from hundreds of clients she's worked with. She loves being a support system to both mom and child, and helps lift them up from weeds and to a place where mealtimes are a happy place to explore and nourish!
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