6 month old - can i give him lean beef mince?

[MandyBOO]

or not?

I wouldn't, My daughter still gets an upset tummy from beef/mince and she has just turned 3, We very rael have beef anyway but she had lean steak mince last weekend and she got the runs
To rich or heavy?

I do.

Yes you can.

not if you haven't cooked it

I would have thought that was unusual chocolatemummy. I think I introduced mince at about 7 months. Started off with chicken and white fish.

I started solids at 6mths not 4mths and at 8mths did dairy and chicken and at 10mths then did meat.

What is the benefit of waiting, with meat? I know eggs can be allergenic.

Don't think there's any benefit of waiting with meat. Quite the opposite in fact, as meat is very iron rich, and therefore makes a good first food.

i think the only benefit of waiting is that some babies find beef a bit too fibrous at that age. i have to say dd didn't like really meaty foods and would only eat chicken (or jar food, sigh) until about 9m old. but now at 10 m she has suddenly gone all crazy about my cottage pie - sigh of relief we eat loads of beef in my house

i think mince, even lumps of it, is quite tricky to eat at first (as a finger food i mean) cos it breaks up too much. dd was eating fist-sized hunks of meat by about 7 months as i recall. she sucked and chewed until only a pale, unnappetising ghost of the thing was left.

yes aitch one of the things that puts me off my roast dinner is looking at the slice of roast beef i've given dd to suck on...!!

it does look like death on a plate after a good chew, doesn't it? i briefly consider turning vegetarian each time i chuck them out.