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First Bites

An offline guide to baby-led weaning: 211 foods, how to cut each one by age, meal ideas, and a journal to share with your pediatrician

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Screenshots

  • First Foods: a search box for 211 foods, filters for ready now, iron-rich and allergens, and a grid of food photos tagged Allergen, Iron or Prep care
  • Avocado: 6 months+ and low risk, with how to cut it at 6, 9, 12 and 18 months and how to serve it at each age
  • Guides: tools for choking first aid, a feeding schedule, a readiness checklist and allergy symptoms, then the Getting ready articles
  • Meal ideas suited to 6 months and up — Avocado Two Ways, Stewed Apples, Lentil & Sweet Potato Mash, Salmon & Squash Flake Bowl — with Plan and Shopping tabs
  • Search: iron-rich foods, common allergens, foods ready for 6 months, and foods to wait on until later

About First Bites

First Bites is an iPhone app for parents starting their baby on solid food. Its library holds 211 foods, each with a photo, the age it suits, whether it is iron-rich or a common allergen, its choking risk, and how to cut and serve it at 6, 9, 12 and 18 months, drawn as diagrams. Filters pull out what is ready now, what is iron-rich and which allergens are still to introduce. The guides cover readiness, the first meal, gagging versus choking, the highest-risk foods, introducing allergens, recognising a reaction, iron, drinks and seasoning, and they are written from published AAP, CDC, WHO and AAAAI feeding guidance; where it matters, they tell you to ask your pediatrician. There is a choking first-aid reference — a quick reference, not a substitute for a hands-on course — plus a sample feeding schedule, meal ideas with a plan and shopping list, and a journal of foods, notes and reactions you can export. Everything stays on the phone and it works offline.

Who it's for

Parents starting their baby on solid food, especially with baby-led weaning, who want the answers in one place without an account.

What it does

  • 211 foods with photos, age, iron, allergen and choking-risk tags
  • How to cut and serve each food at 6, 9, 12 and 18 months
  • Guides written from published AAP, CDC, WHO and AAAAI feeding guidance
  • Choking first-aid reference, readiness checklist and a sample schedule
  • Meal ideas, a meal plan and a shopping list
  • A journal of foods, notes and reactions you can export
  • Works offline; everything stays on the phone

Behind the build

Most of the work after the first build was the app checking itself against its own advice.

A QA pass found its First 100 list included foods its own guidance says to hold back, and that some recipes broke its own allergen guidance; both were fixed at the data, not hidden in the UI. The age a parent sets now carries through to the guidance text and the cut diagrams, emoji were replaced with real food photography, and foods that had been sharing one photo each got their own.

Information

Runs on
iOS
Status
In the lab
Requires
iOS 17+
Source
Not public
Telemetry
None
Built with
Swift & SwiftUI
Stack
SwiftSwiftUISwiftDataXcodeGen

First Bites is still in the lab.

Built and running on my machine, but not packaged for release — so there's nothing honest to link to yet. Leave an email and you'll hear when it ships.

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