Bread and Tuna
From 12 months · 2 foods
Ingredients
How to prepare each food
Bread
Bread can be a regular part of meals as toast fingers, small sandwich pieces, or soft pieces with a topping. Toasting still helps with very soft bread, and crusts can usually stay on. Avoid thick or sticky toppings and keep limiting salt.
Toast fingers or small soft pieces. Keep toppings thin and moist; avoid large gummy bites of soft bread.
Soft, fresh bread can compress into a sticky wad that is hard to clear, and hard crusts can break off in firm pieces. Toast it lightly, cut it into strips or small pieces, add a thin moist spread, and always supervise eating.
Tuna
Serve flaked tuna as a soft table food, mixed into pasta, rice, mashed avocado or a sandwich filling. Keep choosing canned light tuna for everyday meals and limit white or albacore tuna, which is higher in mercury, to about once a week. Keep added salt low and remove any bones from fresh tuna.
Bite-size soft flakes; mix into a moist dish so it doesn't crumble apart and dry out.
Fish itself is soft, but bones are the main hazard. Run your fingers through every piece and remove all bones, including the small ones in canned tuna. Serve it moist so dry flakes don't bunch up.
Putting it together
Flake the tuna over the bread for a simple open sandwich.
Sources
- Meal idea from American Academy of Pediatrics
- AAP - Starting Solid Foods (around 6 months)
- NHS - What to feed your baby from around 6 months
- AAP - Choking prevention guidance for infants and toddlers
- CDC - Foods that are choking hazards for infants and toddlers
- ESPGHAN 2017 - Complementary feeding position paper (gluten and allergen timing)
- AAP - Introducing common food allergens to your baby
- USDA FoodData Central - Bread (nutrient data)
- FDA/EPA - Advice about eating fish (mercury and best low-mercury choices)
- USDA FoodData Central - Tuna (nutrient data)
General informational content, not medical advice. Always consult your pediatrician about introducing new foods, especially if your baby has any medical conditions or family history of allergies.
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