Whether you are transitioning your baby from purees or doing baby led weaning, these quick, easy, and healthy breakfast ideas are sure to help introduce your baby to a wide variety of flavors and textures while ensuring that they are getting the nutrients they need during this critical time.
Proper nutrition during the first 1000 days is extremely important for optimal brain development, lifelong health and eating habits. In fact, there is strong evidence that food preferences and the variety of foods eaten during the first 1000 days remain consistent throughout life!
I’ve learned from speaking to many moms that breakfast is the most challenging meal of the day when it comes to offering variety to their baby. Not to mention that typical American breakfasts are loaded with sugar.
So if you find yourself in a breakfast rut, I hope this post gives you plenty of ideas!
Breakfast Ideas for 9 months
These are all examples of my son’s breakfast around this age. We actually didn’t start doing breakfast until around 8.5 months. To briefly share our journey, we started solids at around 7.5 months (6 months adjusted age) and lunch was the meal we started with as that’s the time of the day when my son was most interested in food. You can read more here.
And here’s an in-depth article on how to get started with baby led weaning.
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I don’t cook much in the morning. It’s usually whatever’s in the fridge. The only time I turn on the stove is when I’m making eggs.
Around this age is when he started eating 3 meals per day. On average, he ate about 70% of what you see on the plates.
- oat balls w/chopped roasted veggies; avocado; roasted kabocha (w/cinnamon)
- Banana Date Bread; whole fat plain Greek yogurt w/flaxseeds & cinnamon
- Roasted spaghetti squash; shredded chicken; roasted purple sweet potatoes
- baked coconut almond bars; scrambled eggs; ripe pears
- Mexican lentil muffin; whole fat plain Greek yogurt (w/chia seeds); banana (w/cinnamon)
- Steel cut oats (w/banana, flaxseeds, cinnamon); curried zucchini (coated in egg & pan-fried); avocado
Breakfast Ideas for 10 months
All the baked goods that aren’t linked are from my first ecookbook – Baby Led Weaning Beginner Bites.
Whenever I baked, I made sure to freeze half (this is my FAVORITE method) so I could build my freezer stash. Then I could easily pull them out and thaw in the fridge overnight to enjoy first thing in the morning!
- oat balls w/sardines + chopped veggies, salmon quiche
- zucchini & sweet potato muffin, avocado, pears
- lentil walnut bake, banana slices
- pumpkin bread w/almond butter & banana, scrambled eggs
- beet pancakes (w/sardines), avocado
- Mango coconut chia pudding, baked almond coconut bars, leftover steam roasted veggies
Breakfast for 11 month
- Pumpkin oat bread with thinly sliced pear + almond butter, roasted broccoli and kabocha
- scrambled eggs w/curry powder, steel cut oat balls (w/almond butter and flaxseeds), roasted broccoli with whole fat plain Greek yogurt
- broccoli and spinach quiche, roasted beets, yellow squash, broccoli, whole fat plain Greek yogurt
- beet hummus, steel cut oat balls (w/almond butter and flaxseeds), avocado
- leftover turkey + egg veggie pancakes w/beet hummus, whole fat plain Greek yogurt (w/flaxseeds), banana, roasted purple sweet potatoes
- Banana date bread with almond butter & chia seeds, scrambled eggs w/oregano, roasted beets and yellow squash .
Tips
If you’re looking at these meals and thinking:
“Wow that looks like a lot of work!”
Would you believe that each meal you see above took me less than 10 minutes to put together? The key is meal prepping. Cook a large batch of vegetables, oatmeal or other whole grains. Bake and freeze muffins, pancakes, and other nutritious baked goods. Simply repurpose throughout the week.
“That doesn’t look like breakfast at all!”
I highly encourage you to rethink breakfast. It doesn’t always have to be cereal, oatmeal, pancakes, etc. And our babies sure don’t mind gnawing on a beef strip first thing in the morning.
So take advantage of dinner leftovers! It’s a great opportunity to expose them to more foods they’re not innately drawn to, like vegetables.
“But I’d much rather do cereal, yogurt, _____ for breakfast”
That’s ok too! Whatever works for your family. What I highly encourage of you is to again, focus on variety! Instead of having oatmeal with the same toppings, switch things up! Here are some awesome topping suggestions.
If you like having eggs in the morning, here are some easy baby-friendly egg recipes to try.
These Microwave Egg Oatmeals are filling, versatile, and takes only 2 minutes to cook!
If toast is your thing, here are some unique and delicious toast toppings!
Like to start the day with a hearty smoothie? Try this carrot cake oatmeal smoothie bowl.
And here are some delicious single serve chia pudding recipes! If battling constipation, you must give these a try ;).
Could you provide a recipe for the oat balls? Thank you!