Diet for a ten-month-old baby is very particular. At this time, the baby’s teeth have grown a few, so it is still possible to eat some soft things in everyday life. Colorful sweet potato porridge requires some rice and sweet potatoes, as well as white rice to make colorful porridge, or use chestnut and date puree millet to make porridge, making it more nutritious for the baby to drink.

At ten months old, babies can eat most foods. At this time, rice should be the main food for three meals a day, and fruits and milk can be added to the baby two hours after breakfast, lunch, and dinner. In terms of staple foods, thick porridge, soft bread, soft noodles, and other foods can be fed to the baby.

1. Colorful Sweet Potato Porridge

Ingredients: 30g of white rice, half a sweet potato.

Method: Rinse the rice thoroughly and add an adequate amount of water to cook into white rice porridge. Wash the sweet potatoes, peel them, and cut them into thin slices. Steam them in a steamer until fully cooked. Remove the steamed sweet potatoes and mash them with a spoon into a paste. Cook the white rice porridge. Mix the sweet potato puree into the white rice porridge and stir well.

2. Chestnut and Date Puree Millet Porridge

Ingredients: 25g of millet, 3 peeled chestnuts, 7g of dried date flesh, 250ml of water.

Method: Remove the seeds from the red dates and cut them into small pieces. Add enough water to cover the dates and blend with a blender. Then, cook the mixture in a pot. After the dates are cooked, use a spatula or a small spoon to scrape the cooked date flesh into a tea strainer to filter out the skin. Add the millet to an electric rice pot, add 250ml of water, and cook on the porridge setting until soft and tender, and set aside. Boil the chestnuts until tender, and use a spoon or fork to crush the cooked chestnut flesh into small pieces. Mix the date puree and millet porridge and bring to a boil. Crush the walnuts. Spread the boiling date puree on top of the millet porridge and sprinkle with the walnuts.