Cheese and cottage cheese options for babies

I have the same question I don’t know how to start with cheese

As low as u can go with sodium for cottage cheese.. if you can't find low sodium cottage cheese you can cut the sodium by 60% just rinse the cottage cheese off with water, and add plain Greek yogurt if u want it creamy again, or i mash it into some avacodo and add it to the top of buttered toast! It's the liquid that's in cottage cheese that makes it so salty.

We've given all other dairy (except actual milk) to our kids from 6 months. Including cheese. If it's hard cheese, grate it onto other foods. If it's soft cheese cut thin slices big enough for baby to grab. They will be able to bite chunks... Even without teeth.

I would also like to add yogurt, butter and hard cheeses (hard cheeses have the most amount of sodium do to preservation so just keep that in mind for quantity and how often you serve it) have the least amount of lactose.. so yogurt might be a great place to start introducing baby to dairy products. 😋 enjoy! Have fun!

I have mine paneer from 6 months plus. I did baby led weaning so I gave him well cooked chunks and also mashed and mixed with rice and lentils. I also give mine a slice of pure cheddar with his omelette everyday - I just make sure his sodium intake for the rest of the day is limited (or none at all) to balance it out. We do homemade yogurt so I know there is no added sugar or salt in it. There are low sodium cheese options like mozzarella as well but mine loves his cheesy omelette strips lol

Solid starts has a great free app for introducing most goods including cheese. It was very useful for us. Baby's protein needs are quite low but their fat needs are higher than adults, so for things like cottage cheese, I would get 4% milk fat though you do need to be cautious about sodium content and only offer a small amount. We get 11% yogurt. For a vegan option, nut butters are a good source of fat and protein. Lentils or legumes for protein, fiber, and iron. Tofu for protein.