When Greylan turned 6 months old, we didn’t rush into complicated baby meals. We started with homemade chicken stock, introduced one food at a time, and slowly built from there. Here’s exactly how we approached solids — and what a typical week of simple, real-food meals looks like now at 7 months.

The very first food we introduced to our son wasn’t a purée or baby cereal — it was homemade chicken stock. Made from a pasture-raised chicken carcass and collagen-rich chicken feet, this simple, gelatinous stock became a gentle, nourishing way to introduce real food at six months old. In this post, we share our personal experience, why we chose stock as a first food, and exactly how to make it at home for your baby and your whole family.