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If you’re wondering what to feed your baby for breakfast, you’re not alone. Here are simple, wholesome breakfast ideas to help your baby explore new textures and flavors without adding extra stress to your morning!
Breakfast doesn’t have to be stressful and boring. it can be one of the easiest meals to make fun, balanced, and baby-friendly. As a pediatric dietitian and mom of 2, I know how valuable it is to have a handful of go-to breakfast ideas that you can rotate through during the week.
Here I’m sharing my top baby-led weaning breakfast ideas that are quick, nutrient-dense, and perfect for helping your baby build healthy eating habits right from the start!
Table of Contents
- Easy Breakfast Ideas For Your Baby
- 1. Baby-Led Weaning Egg Breakfast Ideas
- 2. Baby Oatmeal
- 3. Muffins for Babies
- 4. Chia pudding for Baby-Led Weaning
- 5. Baby Pancake Ideas
- 6. Waffles for Baby Breakfast
- 6. Toast for Baby-Led Weaning
- 7. Yogurt for Babies
- Breakfast Ideas for 9 month Old (real-life examples)
- Breakfast Ideas for 10 month Old
- Breakfast Ideas for 11 month Old
- How much should a baby eat for breakfast?
- Baby Led Feeding Journey Program
- Other Helpful Resources
Easy Breakfast Ideas For Your Baby
One of the most common things I hear from parents is that breakfast feels like the hardest meal to keep interesting BUT it doesn’t have to be. This post is designed to help you rotate through breakfast ideas without overthinking it. You’ll find an idea for every day of the week, broken down into easy categories like oatmeal, pancakes, toast, yogurt, and eggs.
Within each category, you can create variety by switching up flavors, toppings, and sides. For example:
- Oatmeal: Stir in mashed banana one day, grated apple the next, or swirl in a little peanut butter for healthy fats and protein.
- Pancakes: Make a double batch and freeze extras, then switch up what you serve alongside them: berries one day, yogurt the next, even some scrambled eggs for added protein.
- Toast: Rotate toppings like mashed avocado, ricotta with mashed berries, or thinly spread nut butter with banana slices.
- Eggs: Try them scrambled, made into mini omelets with veggies, or served as strips of hard-boiled egg for easy grabbing.
This simple rotation gives your baby exposure to different flavors and nutrients, which is key for building a varied palate and helping prevent picky eating later, while also giving you a sense of predictability for busy mornings. A win all around!
1. Baby-Led Weaning Egg Breakfast Ideas
Eggs are such a wonderful finger food for babies. They are nutrient-dense with so many essential nutrients that babies need, including iron, zinc, and choline, which is critical for proper brain development.
They are also affordable and super versatile! To learn more, here’s the ultimate guide to eggs for babies.
Soft Scrambled Eggs for Baby
Spinach Egg Muffins
Cottage Cheese Egg Bites
Sheet Pan Eggs
Eggs for babies – Curried Egg Salad
2. Baby Oatmeal
Quick and easy to make, oatmeal is such a hearty way to start the day. There are endless ways to customize it with all kinds of toppings, making it the perfect vehicle for introducing your baby to a variety of foods.
You can also bake it or make it the night before and enjoy cold (hello overnight oats!)
Here are some recipes to try!
Homemade Baby Oatmeal
Microwave Oatmeal with eggs
Healthy Strawberry Baked Oatmeal
Apple Cinnamon Baked Oatmeal
Microwave Beetroot Curry Oatmeal
Savory Baked Oatmeal with Vegetables
Banana Overnight Oats
Mango Overnight Oats
Overnight Blended Oats
Overnight Quinoa Oats
3. Muffins for Babies
Muffins are so great to have in the freezer at all times for a quick breakfast! Here’s a whole collection of tried and true baby AND toddler muffins all in one place!
Simply thaw in the fridge overnight and enjoy in the morning as is or slightly warmed.
4. Chia pudding for Baby-Led Weaning
This is the perfect make ahead breakfast that you can whip up in under 5 minutes! Here’s the basic recipe as well as 6 fun flavors to get you started!
Chia puddings are also great for relieving constipation.
Chia seed pudding
Overnight Chia Oats
Coconut Chia Pudding
Pumpkin Chia Pudding
Banana Chia Pudding
5. Baby Pancake Ideas
Cook a big batch and freeze for an easy breakfast!
You can offer these pancakes halved, or as strips. And make every bite count by serving with various toppings, such a yogurt, mashed avocado, peanut or nut butter, hummus, etc.
Beet Pancakes
Spinach Pancakes
Strawberry banana pancakes
3 Ingredient Banana Oat Pancakes
Butternut Squash Pancakes
6. Waffles for Baby Breakfast
Another great make ahead option and a great way to incorporate more vegetables into your baby’s diet.
Healthy Pumpkin Waffles
Peanut Butter Waffles
Sweet Potato Waffles
Cottage Cheese Waffles
Strawberry Waffles
Mini Waffles
6. Toast for Baby-Led Weaning
Toast is a great way to work on texture progression while packing in nutrients. Choose soft, whole grain bread (look for low-sodium options), toast it lightly, and cut into easy-to-hold strips. From there, you can add iron-rich spreads like nut butter, protein-rich options like cottage cheese, or vitamin-packed veggies like mashed avocado or roasted sweet potato. It’s an easy way to offer variety without overcomplicating breakfast.
Here are the best store-bought bread for babies + creative toast ideas
Savory French toast
But if you’d rather go the sweet route, this 10 minute is the answer.
Healthy Banana French Toast
7. Yogurt for Babies
I like to alternate between Greek and plain yogurt and serve with all kinds of toppings. It’s also a great way to boost flavor and nutrition in so many recipes.
Learn what the best yogurt for babies is as well as plenty of simple ways to serve it to your baby.
Banana Yogurt
Blueberry Yogurt
Pumpkin Yogurt
Peanut butter yogurt
Homemade Strawberry Yogurt
Mango Yogurt
Breakfast Ideas for 9 month Old (real-life examples)
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. Here’s our baby led weaning journey recap.
Around 9 months is when he started eating 3 meals per day. On average, he ate about 60% 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
- Savory baked oatmeal bars with vegetables + scrambled eggs + ripe pears
- Mexican lentil muffin + whole fat plain Greek yogurt (w/chia seeds) + banana (w/cinnamon)
- Overnight banana oats (w/banana, flaxseeds, cinnamon) + curried zucchini + avocado
Breakfast Ideas for 10 month Old
Whenever I baked, I made sure to freeze half (this is my FAVORITE method for freezing muffins) 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 veggie + salmon quiche
- Pumpkin banana muffins + avocado + pears
- Carrot zucchini muffins + banana slices
- Pumpkin banana bread w/almond butter + banana + scrambled eggs
- Beet pancakes + avocado
- Mango coconut chia pudding + baked almond coconut bar + leftover steam roasted veggies
Breakfast Ideas for 11 month Old
- Apple Cinnamon Baked Oatmeal with thinly sliced pear + almond butter, roasted broccoli and kabocha
- Scrambled eggs w/curry powder + oat balls (w/almond butter and flaxseeds) + steam roasted broccoli with whole fat plain Greek yogurt
- Spinach egg muffins + leftover veggies (beets, yellow squash, broccoli) + whole fat plain Greek yogurt
- Beet hummus, Oat balls (w/almond butter and flaxseeds) + avocado
- Leftover turkey + vegetable omelette 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 .
How much should a baby eat for breakfast?
This is one of the most common questions I receive. And the answer is it depends on your perfectly unique child.
Babies are born with an innate ability to self-regulate, and while it’s so tempting to take control and push them to finish their plate, the best thing we can do is to follow their lead.
There are so many factors that can affect their appetite. They may be sick, teething, going through a growth spurt, feeling tired, excited, etc. Therefore, consider their intake on a weekly basis rather than daily.
As long as you are consistently offering your baby 2-3 meals by 9-10 months and continuing to offer breastmilk/formula, your baby should be getting adequate nutrition.
Still worried? If your baby is growing and following their normal growth curve, you guys are rocking it!
You do want to make sure they’re getting enough iron so be sure to include an iron-rich source with each meal!
Related post: Best Iron-rich Foods for Babies
Baby Led Feeding Journey Program
If you are in need of step-by-step guidance for feeding your baby (and the rest of the family) simple, nutritious meals while saving you time, energy, and sanity, this program is for you!
Do you want to minimize picky eating and set a solid foundation for a lifetime of healthy eating habits?
Check out this 3 month mastering self-feeding program! It’s the closest thing to me being in your kitchen
Other Helpful Resources
Here are some in-depth resources to help guide you in exposing your baby to a wide variety of flavors and textures while ensuring that they get the nutrition they need to grow and thrive.
Could you provide a recipe for the oat balls? Thank you!
Hi! check out this page: https://www.mjandhungryman.com/vegetable-baby-oatmeal/