Your baby has more taste buds than you do, so even something that seems bland in the adult world can be a world of flavours to them. Remember eating solids is a new experience and they need time to adjust.
Go for small amounts of a single ingredient food to start off with, like Wattie's Baby Food or Farex Rice Cereal prepared with milk (breast or formula) or water. You can also try a single type of fruit or veges, cooked and pureed until it's smooth. Pumpkin, potato, kumara or carrot are all good choices, or if you're giving them fruit try cooked and pureed apple or pear.
Wattie’s Baby Foods in the blue label cans and jars are all suitable first foods - that's the consistency you are aiming for.
Babies (like so many of us) tend to prefer sweet foods. To get them into good habits it might be helpful to start them off with a variety of veges as well as fruit, that way they learn to accept both. Pumpkin is a popular first vegetable.
