Not every parent can afford to buy good, expensive canned food for a baby's first complementary foods. Therefore, in order not to buy poor quality canned food, you can do just fine without them.
It is very important to introduce the first complementary foods correctly. No need to force the child to eat if he refuses. No need to give exotic products, citrus fruits.
Complementary feeding can be started from 5-6 months. For the first time, you can try to mash a banana in mashed potatoes and give it to the baby on the tip of a spoon. Of course, the baby will frown, because this is a new taste for him. And in this way you can give apples, pears. In the first two weeks, complementary foods should be given once a day.
Also try fermented milk products. Cottage cheese is very beneficial for the digestive system. You can buy a yogurt maker, buy various starter cultures, and cook dairy products yourself. You can add grated fruit to the curds, it will be tastier than the "store" ones.
You can also make juices and other drinks yourself at home. For the first time, you don't need to squeeze out a lot of juice and you don't need to have a juicer to do this. It is enough to grate any fruit or vegetable, and then wrap it in cheesecloth and squeeze the juice out of the resulting mass. Then, dilute with some water and water the baby. All this can be done with an apple, a pear, or any other fruit. Vegetables include beets and carrots.
Porridge can also be cooked in the first days of complementary foods. The very first, semolina. You need to cook it in milk to make it thin. This is how you can do without purchased canned food and juices.
