what to cook ?............food for eight to ten month old baby

Is ur baby grabing food from ur plate?
My little girl started picking food(mostly rice) from our plate and feed herself around 8 months.
By eighth or nine months most babies have developed enough eye-hand coordination to pick up small objects with their fingers.

Is he more interested in food u are eating more than food offered to him?
I have observed that babies love textures and colours in food,my baby usually picks the pieces of carrots or peas,or rice from our plate.The food which we offer to babies lacks that vividness,(usually a boring looking puree or with some lumps),so they are more interested in our food which have more textures and
colours, and love eating from our plate,let them enjoy that,can offer some food from ur plate also.

Does she try to grab the spoon while ur offering food from it?Do u give him a chance to feed himself?
My lo started grabbing spoon from us to feed herself around nine months,i let her to do so,but most of the food ends up on floor,so i started using two spoons
,one i gave her to practice feeding herself and other i used to feed her,both of us take turns,first she feed hersef then i feed her.....
thus both of us are happy at the end of the dinner.

food chart for 8 to 10 month old baby
i haven't prepared any food chart coz a baby at this stage can eat most of the foods,only few exceptions .pls read foods to avoid in the first yr of baby.
refer to my  post What to cook for seven month old baby?
below is the food chart for seven month old baby .For eight month old baby add additional food written below after chart

What i started giving my baby after 8 months?
After eight months,there are more finger food and other easy food options .
by easy food i mean food in which nothing much to prepare .........cheese,paneer,yogurt,pasta,poha,egg yolk,coconut milk .These food make good combination with vegetables,fruits and cereals.
Also started adding little ghee or sauting food in little oil  with cumin/mustard seed(zeera,sarson,rai) ,hing(asfoetida),sometime with finely chopped onions or ginger garlic paste.After eight months babies can be introduced with some spice.

read here my out look on what to cook for baby?

Which vegetables i added?
Adding green leafy vegetables to my lo's food  is some thing that i was very eager too and the season was also quite right,with coming of spinach(palak),chaulai(amarnathus) and chenopodium(bathua) ,mustard(sarson) leaves,fenugreel(methi leaves) in market in the same order with the season. I added these leafy vegetables from nine month onward.started giving coriander(dhaniya),mint(pudina) leaves in form of chutney or dip(will discuss recipe soon).also added cucumber,egg plant and tomatoes.My baby
loves tomato soup a lot, it's a must in her dinner menu every other day.

 Which Fruits i added?
I introduced my baby with grapes,kiwis,and cherries at 8th month.Grapes might pose as choking hazard so i used to cut them in small pieces or gave in juice form.
Fruits that can be after eight months are Cherries,blue berries ,cranberries, figs,grapes and kiwis can be given after eight month.
By 10 months ,I also introduced all types of citric fruits,oranges,sweet lime,kinu,My lo made lots of faces while tasting them,doesn't liked them much.citrus fruits are acidic in nature,so if ur baby has allergy issues with some foods,u might want to wait for these for one yr.check for any reaction after introducing citric food,if there is no allergy issue then there is no need  in delaying these fruits,orange juice can be given to babies whn they are constipated.

Also introduce coconut also ,not directly though but in form of coconut milk.


How many meals a day?
With the completion of eigth month u can give some snacks(mostly finger foods) in between the major meals.If ur baby seems very hungry,can introduce two more meals(like mid morning snacks and evening snacks)Try to give more finger foods if possible,
Don't give biscuits or chips as a snack option,instead give fruits , soups, bread sticks ,toast or paneer.Try anything considering ur convenience also, cooking five times a day is too much for a mother. Can keep some left overs from breakfast for evening snacks but must be carefully kept in airtight container or refrigerated in summers.

Kya banaoon kahne mein? What to cook ?
An advertisement is coming these days where a woman is always thinking what shall be cooked for todays dinner,or tommorows lunch or dinner,
though we laugh at her but most of us are in her shoes.
this is the high time to write down lots of food options for ur baby on a piece of paper and paste it in ur kitchen or on ur refrigerator.

food ideas ( including those introduce at seventh month)

Breakfast
stewed apple with cinnamon
coconut milk and banana smoothie
coconut milk and pine apple smoothie
coconut milk ,banana and avocado smoothie
oats with dates
rice or brown rice porridge with aple ,pear or banana
daliya and one fruit
suji porridge with papaya
gur atta porridge and one fruit
wheat dosa and banana
atta porridge and papaya
egg yolk and mango lassi
yogurt and fruit desert
Stuffed parathas(aloo paratha,paneer paratha or gobhi paratha) with tomato sauce or chutney

Lunch and dinner
bites of roti soaked in any curry or dal
steamed broccoli,cabbage and cheese sprinkled on it.
kichdi with vegetables like carrot/,beans /potato/cauliflower and onions in it
oats with dates puree or dates
curd rice  and a vegetable (cooked and chopped)
palak paneer
rice and dal
yogurt and vegetable salad
yogurt and cucumber salad
lentils with lauki or torai in it
upma with broccoli,carrots or beans in it.
vegetable soup and egg yolk
mashed potato and yoghurt
sweet potato and lentils
vegetable sticks like ....sticks of well-cooked carrot

Some foods that u can cook for 8 month old easily and can be used as snacks
Poha(flattened rice)-poha is a good option and can be cooked with in 5 minutes.
Pasta-another good instant food ,boil it drain water,sprinkle some cheese and ready in 10 to15 minutes
Besan cheela with chutney
moong cheela with paneer
wheat dosa or wheat cheela with gur
sabudana porridge
whole wheat bread and cheese sandwich
teething buscit made of whole wheat flour

soups like
tomato soup
mixed vegetable soup
spinach soup

will try to post the recipes soon.