Baby Food Chart for 8 Months Baby | 8 Months Baby Food Recipes

Indian 8 Month Baby Food Chart, Indian Baby Food recipes, By 8 Months, your baby may figure out how to use her thumb and forefinger to pick up food. This motor skill is known as a pincer grasp. Baby will let you know that she’s ready for self-feeding by grabbing the spoon when you are feeding or snatching food off from the plate.

Offering finger foods to your baby is the best way to encourage self-feeding. Hence you should include finger foods in your eight months baby diet chart along with other meals. Don’t force the baby though, as each baby is unique and adopt eating habits at their own pace. Just keep trying at your best to encourage his eating habits.

By this time, you can also include a little number of spices in your baby’s diet. Introduce one spice at a time and wait for three days to introduce next spice to check out allergic reactions.

What are finger foods?

Any bite-size, soft, melt in the mouth, pieces of food that the baby can pick up quickly and eat by themselves are called as finger foods. Cooked carrots, peas, cut apples, papaya, banana, boiled potato salad, crumbled paneer, chopped boiled egg are some examples of finger food.

Always remember that solids food can’t replace the nutrients breastmilk or formula provides during the first year. So consider including solids in your baby’s diet as a complementary feeding. Please read on seven months baby food chart (to cross check the foods you have introduced at seven months) before you plan a chart for your eight months baby food. And Consider preferring homemade meals for your baby, which is safe.

What foods can be included in 8 months baby’s diet?

At eight months, you can introduce the below foods in addition to the 6 & 7 months food chart.
8 Months Baby Food List

What’s new on eight months baby food?

Fruits: blueberries, cherries, dates, figs, grapes, kiwi, mangoes, apricots

Vegetables: White Potato, broccoli, cauliflower, eggplant, onions, squash, zucchini

Cereals: wheat, broken wheat (Dalia), oats

Pulses: chickpeas (white & black chana), urad dal, green gram

Dairy: Curd or Yogurt, cottage cheese (paneer), tofu

Non-Vegetarian: Egg yolk

Spices: Turmeric, garlic, ginger, asafoetida, cumin seeds, pepper, coriander seeds, fennel seeds, caroms, fenugreek, mustard seeds, cinnamon, nutmeg, cardamom (all can be added in little amount say a pinch)

The complete list of food options for eight months baby:

Here is the full list of options you can include in 8 months old baby’s diet.

Fruits: Apple, Avocado, Banana, Pears, muskmelon, Peaches, Plums, Prune, Chikku, papaya, blueberries, cherries, dates, figs, grapes, kiwi, mangoes

Vegetables: Carrot, Pumpkin, Sweet Potato, beetroot, bottle gourd, tomato, ash gourd, green beans, peas, White Potato, broccoli, cauliflower, eggplant, onions

Cereals & Grains: Rice, Ragi, Barley, Semolina/Suji/Rava, sabudhana, wheat, broken wheat (Dalia), oats

Pulses: Yellow Moong Dal, masoor dal, chickpeas (white & black chana), urad dal, green gram

Dairy: Ghee, Butter, cheese, Curd or Yogurt, cottage cheese (paneer), tofu

Non-Vegetarian: Egg yolk

Sample Food chart or Diet plan for eight months old baby

For eight months baby, you can offer two meal and an optional snack that can be finger food or any light snack for a day. Rest should be breastfeeding or formula feeding. Also if your baby is not ready for finger foods and rejects the same, offer mashed food instead( but continue trying Finger foods once a day). Hence I have given both the options (finger foods & mashed food) in the diet chart. Choose the timings for meal and snack according to your baby’s preference.

How much quantity per day?

For the quantity of food, always be guided with your baby’s hunger as appetite varies from baby to baby, and most babies change from day-to-day. Here is an approximate amount:

Vegetables – 1/2 cup
Fruits – 1/2 cup
Cereal – 1/2 cup

Introduce one food at a time and follow three days rule which will help to find out allergic reactions to a particular food.

8 Months Baby Food Recipes

Here is the collection of 8 Months Baby Food Recipes, please customize the below sample charts with the mentioned recipes that can be included in 8 months baby’s diet based on availability, convenience, and your baby’s preference.

Sample Food Chart for 8 Months Baby

Here is the sample food chart with recipes (please click on the hyperlink to get the recipes) for eight months baby food,

Days	Early Morning	Breakfast	Mid-Morning	Lunch	Evening	Dinner	Bed time
Day 1	BM/FM	BM/FM	Cooked carrot or peas pieces (FF)/ Mashed carrot	Moong dal khichdi	BM/FM	Mashed carrot potato/ Mashed carrot potato beetroot/ Mashed Broccoli potato	BM/FM
Day 2	BM/FM	BM/FM	Raw Apple/pear or muskmelon or papaya/chikku or banana (FF)/ mashed banana chikku/ mashed papaya/ Mashed Apple or pear/mashed muskmelon	Curd rice with homemade Curd / Vegetables dal soup	BM/FM	Mashed vegetables with cheese/Mixed vegetables soup/Mashed Potato Salad	BM/FM
Day 3	BM/FM	BM/FM	Boiled mashed egg yolk (FF)	Rice moong dal porridge with vegetables/mashed apple sweet potato	BM/FM	Wheat porridge/ Dalia Porridge /wheat Apple halwa	BM/FM
Day 4	BM/FM	BM/FM	Crumbled Paneer (FF)	Chickpea mash With Vegetables	BM/FM	Ragi Apple Halwa Ragi Porridge with whole ragi / Ragi Porridge with ragi flour	BM/FM
Day 5	BM/FM	BM/FM	Toasted bread cubes/ banana pancakes /bread omelette	Moong dal khichdi with vegetables /mashed ghee rice with egg yolk	BM/FM	Idli/ Steamed Dosa/ Chapati or Roti (dipped in dal)	BM/FM
Day 6	BM/FM	BM/FM	Pomegranates Juice/ Apple carrot soup	Mashed rice with tomato rasam or mixed vegetable soup	BM/FM	Oats banana Porridge /Barley Porridge	BM/FM
Day 7	BM/FM	BM/FM	Plain homemade curd	Dalia Khichdi	BM/FM	Suji Apple Kheer/Suji Banana Halwa	BM/FM

* BM/FM-Breastmilk/Formula Milk, FF-Finger Food

Notes:

Sterilize the bowls and spoons used for feeding your baby in a vessel with hot water for five minutes and keep it immersed in the same vessel until use.
Never introduce more than one food at a time when introducing solids to your baby.
Salt and sugar are not recommended in baby’s food until one year of age.
Check for allergy symptoms when you are introducing a new food to your baby and stop feeding your child if you find any signs.
This food chart is prepared to give an idea of what foods can be included in babies diet at a particular month. It should not be considered as medical advice.
Feed your baby with breastmilk or formula milk on demand other than the timings mentioned in the chart.
Always check with your pediatrician before introducing any new food.
Steaming is a healthy option for baby food than pressure cooking. So I prefer steaming using an Idli pot or steamer.

Last Updated: April 2018

Also, Check out the below links for 9 – 11 months Homemade Baby food recipes

Comments

Brandon Parmer says
October 30, 2015 at 10:25 am

Especially new parents are worried about their baby's diet plans. Due to lack of proper diet most of the times we have found that babies are suffering from various diseases and therefore parents are always taking the help of expert advice before choosing food and recipes for their babies. Here in this article we have found the complete list of baby's diet plans and what should be eat in the 8 months of age. I hope new mother should follow this diet plan for their 8 months baby.
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tina says
January 26, 2016 at 6:18 pm

I have a Philips baby food steamer but I feel the food is uncooked as compared to pressure cooker

- gkfooddiary says
  January 26, 2016 at 6:28 pm
  
  For every food u need to steam for a particular time for example carrot takes 15 minutes & potato takes at least 20 minutes of steaming.. I haven't faced any problem yet
  
Unknown says
January 2, 2017 at 4:22 am

Half a cup for 8months..how much is half cup?

- gkfooddiary says
  January 2, 2017 at 4:54 pm
  
  Half cup is approximately 120 ml. Always feed baby on demand. Quantities given here are just to give an rough idea
  
Sabina says
February 23, 2017 at 5:55 am

Dinner at what time should be given for 8 months baby

- Kalyani says
  February 23, 2017 at 12:18 pm
  
  Timing is purely depends on your baby’s schedule. Two to three hours before sleep is ideal for dinner
  
Gayatri says
July 1, 2017 at 2:42 am

My baby is not like any sweet… Wt can do.. Also not drink other milk

- gkfooddiary says
  July 1, 2017 at 4:07 am
  
  No problem if baby don’t take milk other than breastmilk/formula. Don’t need to worry about sweet as well. Just give whatever baby prefers.
  
Lavanya K Gopikrishna says
October 2, 2017 at 4:28 am

Thank u for this info. It gives a clear picture. Very useful article.

- gkfooddiary says
  April 26, 2018 at 8:34 am
  
  thank you for your feedback:)
  
Saranya says
May 3, 2018 at 5:09 pm

My child s October 11 2017 born. Which diet plan should i follow… she s 7 months running so can i follow 7 months diet plan

- gkfooddiary says
  May 3, 2018 at 9:57 pm
  
  Solid food can be included in baby’s diet at 6 months , i.e after 180 days completed, Hence as of now you should follow 6 months food chart.. From May 11 2018, 7 months food chart as your baby completes 7 months
  
Dpusha says
June 19, 2018 at 4:30 pm

My baby girl is about to complete her 8th month.her weight is 5.7 kgs. Her birth weight is 2.4kgs. she hardly takes 4 or 5 spoons(silicon) what should I do?

- Kalyani says
  June 19, 2018 at 11:20 pm
  
  Dont worry much about weight if baby is active. For 8 months baby, breast milk/formula should be a major thing. solid food is just complementary. so make sure she is getting enough milk. also try variety of foods as babies get easily bored if same food offered everyday.
  
Sam says
October 6, 2018 at 3:00 am

Your article was really very helpful. Can you please suggest how to increase baby immunity and weight esp in a premature baby girl with very low birth weight. My baby girl is 8 months old i.e her corrected age. She takes only 120 ml milk wveey four hours. Doesnt eat anything and shuts her mouth tight when she see bowl and spoon in my hand. Im extremely worried. Can you plz help.

- Kalyani says
  October 6, 2018 at 4:04 am
  
  Babies of this age eat only less amount. MAke sure to feed enough breastmilk/formula until one year. Also, Don’t worry about weight if the baby is active and meeting milestones. However, for weight gain include healthy foods like banana, potato, milk products, chicken, eggs, sweet potato, ghee, dry fruits nuts, urad dal, sesame seeds, avocado, raw banana powder, cheese which helps in healthy weight gain (in any form your baby prefers).
  
  For improving immunity, you can include a small amount of Turmeric, Tulsi, ghee, ginger, peppercorns, cinnamon, red bananas, pomegranate, barley, fenugreek, almonds, walnuts, eggs oranges, and Vitamin C rich foods in your baby’s weekly/monthly diet.
  
Leena says
March 29, 2019 at 12:36 pm

My baby HS complete 8months…she has gas problem n she use to drink in bottle so bar bar infection horaha tha..so my doctor told stop milk fr smtym .n even bottle…BT she wants milk wat should I do…n I ws gvg her amul milk nw witch milk should I give her…

- Kalyani says
  April 1, 2019 at 9:08 am
  
  Only formula milk or breastmilk is good for the baby until 12 months. Try to change the formula milk brand(after consulting with the doctor) and see.