How many different types of food do you give your baby during the day?

I just give DS 2 types of food a day, can I give 3 or 4, (if he's had it already of course), is that too much? He will be 5 mos next week.

Ex:
AM - Bananas and oatmeal
Lunch - Mangoes and bananas
PM - Mangoes and cereal

Would it be too many things to do it like this:

AM - Bananas and oatmeal
Lunch - Mangoes and pears
PM - Avocado and cereal

Message edited 5/31/2010 4:14:30 PM.

Re: How many different types of food do you give your baby during the day?

about 3...or more
Breakfest is usually one or a mix of two fruits.

Lunch is a meat, chicken or turkey w? veggie..

Dinner is a veggie mix ( b-fest and dinner include cereal)

Re: How many different types of food do you give your baby during the day?

Okay, so I guess it would be ok if I mixed it up a little bit as long as there is only 1 new food in there. Thank you!

Re: How many different types of food do you give your baby during the day?

You can do 3 or 4. Here's what we did today:

breakfast: oatmeal + apple/pear combo
lunch: sweet potato/peach combo
dinner: oatmeal + acorn squash/apple combo

Now that DS has had so many different fruits and veggies, I'm trying to mix it up by making new combinations; e.g. the acorn squash and apple i baked together with a touch of cinammon.

Re: How many different types of food do you give your baby during the day?

I mix everything up....as long as it is something they have had I give different things at every meal.

Re: How many different types of food do you give your baby during the day?

As long as you only introduce 1 new food every 3-4 days, I don't see any problem with giving DS several different fruits or vegetables that he has already had throughout the day.