Everything munmun knows about feeding your baby
From the first spoon of dal to the day they steal food off your plate — every Indian food, in your language, with the nutrition and safety answers you'd otherwise be Googling at 2 a.m.
Fill the rainbow, one food group at a time
munmun scores each week’s variety across six food groups — no streak to break, just fill the gaps over a rolling seven days. Tap a group to watch it light up.
Tap a food group to start filling the week’s rainbow
The catalog
170+ Indian baby-led-weaning foods, browsable as swipeable shelves in five languages — each with the familiar veg, egg or non-veg marker and prep tips. Most everyday fruits and vegetables are in there, so you can log almost any produce from the daily log without a special recipe.
170+ foods in five languages with baby-led weaning prep tips, browsed as swipeable shelves — now covering most common fruits and vegetables, so almost any produce is one tap to log.
Food names & UI in English, Hindi, Telugu, Tamil & Marathi. Search works across all of them.
Every food carries the familiar veg, egg or non-veg marker, and a one-tap filter lets vegetarian families hide non-veg while others jump straight to chicken, fish & eggs.
On the browse-all view each stage promotes its egg, chicken & fish foods in a spotlight row above the shelves — so iron-rich animal proteins are easy to find, not buried. Vegetarian families never see it.
Nutrition intelligence
munmun flags the nutrients babies need most and turns them into action — iron, omega-3, B12, and vitamin-C pairings that help the iron absorb, both ways.
Iron is the nutrient babies most need from 6 months. munmun flags iron-rich foods — egg, meat & fish for easy-to-absorb iron, plus millets, dals & greens to pair with a little vitamin C.
Oily fish and egg yolk get an indigo Omega-3 chip and a note explaining that DHA — the fat that builds a baby's brain and eyes — is one more concrete reason to put fish and egg on the plate.
Each food's guidance now reads as two clear blocks: Nutrition — iron, omega-3 and how often to offer it (egg most days, fish about twice a week, meat a few times a week) — and Serve it safely, with allergen and cook-through notes together.
Egg, fish and meat get a note that vitamin B12 — needed for healthy blood and a growing nervous system — is found almost only in animal foods, so early non-veg meals fill a gap plants can't.
New to non-veg? At 6–8 months the guide leads with well-cooked egg yolk — the gentlest first animal food — then shows fish and soft chicken joining a stage later, so you know the order, not just the options.
Guava, orange, tomato and other vitamin-C foods get a citrus badge and a note: serve one alongside dal, greens or grains and your baby absorbs far more of that meal’s iron — the veg-side answer to the non-veg “meat factor”.
Open any iron-rich plant food — a dal, ragi or rajma — and the “pair with vitamin C” advice becomes a row of tappable foods: papaya, mango, guava, only the ones your baby’s stage can eat. Tap one to jump straight to it.
Open a vitamin-C food like guava and the same helper runs in reverse: “Serve it with an iron-rich food” lists tappable dals, millets and khichdis your baby’s stage can eat — so whichever food you start from, the iron-absorbing pair is one tap away.
Is your baby ready to begin?
The one question every guide dodges. Around six months most babies are ready when these four signs show up together — not on age alone. Tap the ones you’re already seeing.
Feeding basics
The questions every new parent actually asks — is my baby ready, how much, what texture, what to drink, can they have our masala — answered stage by stage.
The guide answers the worry every new parent has — how much? A stage-aware card gives realistic amounts (milk still leads at 6–8m; a quarter of an adult plate by toddlerhood) on two feeding rules that never change: you decide what and when, your baby decides how much, and you stop on their fullness cues.
Before the very first spoonful, the guide answers the first question of all: is your baby ready? A checklist of the signs to look for together — sits with support and steady head, interested in food, tongue-thrust fading, brings things to the mouth — because readiness is about these signs, not age alone. It shows at the 6–8m stage and steps aside once solids are underway.
Knowing what to offer isn’t enough — parents worry just as much about how it should look. A stage-aware card walks the texture climb from smooth purées to soft lumps to chopped family food as your baby learns to chew, with one rule that holds throughout: keep moving textures up, because staying on smooth purées too long can make lumps harder to accept later.
The food is sorted — but what goes in the cup? A stage-aware card answers the drink questions parents actually ask: a few sips of plain water from an open or straw cup from six months, breast milk or formula as the main drink through the first year (plain cow’s milk waits for the first birthday), and the drinks to skip entirely — juice, soft drinks, tea and sweetened milk that crowd out nutrition and coat new teeth in sugar.
The first question an Indian family asks about baby food — and most guides dodge it. A turmeric-gold card answers plainly: mild everyday spices (turmeric, cumin, coriander, a little hing or cinnamon) are welcome from the very first tastes, so cook baby's food in your usual tempering and they learn to love home food; a little ghee is good for a small tummy; only added salt and chilli heat need holding back. Babies don't need a separate bland pot.
Mealtime safety
The worries that keep parents up — choking versus gagging, cooking meat and egg through, foods to avoid, and spotting a reaction — in calm, plain language.
Open any food with a common allergen — egg, fish, dairy, peanut — and munmun spells out the current advice: start allergens early, one new one at a time in a small amount, then wait 2–3 days and watch for a reaction.
Every non-veg food carries a plain reminder that egg, meat and fish must be fully cooked for a baby — no runny yolk, no pink centre — so undercooked animal protein never puts a baby's tummy at risk.
The guide also names what to avoid in the first year — honey (an infant-botulism risk until 12 months), whole choking-hazard foods, added salt and added sugar — each with a plain reason and a safer swap. It’s stage-aware, so honey drops off once your baby turns one.
Starting solids, no worry is bigger than choking — and the single most useful thing a parent can know is how to tell ordinary gagging from real choking. A two-tone card makes it stick: loud is okay (a noisy safety reflex pushing food forward — stay calm), silent means act now (a blocked airway — back blows, shout for help). It closes on why early gagging is common and fades over the first year.
Every guide says introduce allergens and "watch for a reaction" — then never says what a reaction looks like or what to do. This card does. A two-tone split makes the one distinction that matters: mild signs that usually settle (a few hives, mild swelling around the mouth, a little vomiting — stop the food, keep watching, ask your doctor) versus serious signs that mean call for help now (swollen lips or tongue, trouble breathing, going pale — dial your emergency number, don't wait). Reassurance up front: most reactions are mild, and they show within minutes to a couple of hours.
Smart search
A search that understands the words parents actually type — nutrients, allergens, diets and worries, not just dish names — and teaches itself when nothing matches.
Type “meat”, “non veg” or “protein” — words no food name contains — and the guide still finds the chicken, fish and egg, plus a category search like “grain” or “fruit” that brings up the whole group.
The food guide grew a deep bench — texture, portions, drinks, spices, foods to avoid, gagging vs choking, spotting a reaction. Rather than a wall of cards under every stage, they now fold into two labelled, tappable sections: Feeding basics and Mealtime safety. The page stays scannable so foods lead, and the guidance is one tap away with your open/closed choice remembered for next time.
Type a worry, not just a dish. Search “honey”, “choking”, “water” or “spice” and the food guide surfaces the card that answers it — the honey-botulism warning, gagging vs choking, when water starts, how much masala — even though “honey” is no food and would have dead-ended on “No foods found” before. The words a parent actually reaches for now lead straight to the guidance instead of an empty result.
Worried about iron? Type “iron” — or “omega”, “dha”, “vitamin c” — and the guide surfaces every food it flags for that nutrient, each carrying its badge, even though no dish is named after a nutrient. The words parents actually worry about now lead straight to the foods that answer them instead of an empty result.
Managing a dairy or gluten allergy? Type “gluten”, “dairy”, “groundnut” or “til” and the guide surfaces every food that carries it — each with its allergen chip — even though there’s no gluten category and dairy hides inside dishes like paratha, pongal and curd rice. The word a family reaches for now shows exactly what to watch instead of an empty result.
The food-guide search quietly learned to match nutrients, allergens, diet and safety topics — but nothing told you those words work. Now when a search comes up empty, it offers a few tappable examples (iron, meat, honey, gluten, water), each opening a different corner of the guide, so a dead end becomes a nudge instead of a wall.
Saved foods
Spotted a food weeks before your baby can eat it? Bookmark it and it waits in a Saved row at the top of the guide until they are ready.
Bookmark any food from its detail sheet and it lands in a “Saved foods” row at the top of the guide — a persistent shortlist that carries across stages and sessions, so a food you spotted weeks early is one tap away when your baby reaches it.
The weekly meal planner
Plan the week’s meals once — a Sunday ritual, not a daily scramble — and munmun ticks each slot off by itself as you log meals, then writes the shopping list for you.
Four slots a day — breakfast, lunch, snack, dinner — for any food in the catalog or your own home dish, each shown with its food photo. A slot can hold several options at once (“khichdi or curd rice, whichever gets cooked”), what-to-try-next suggestions fill the blanks, a good week copies forward in one tap, and iron-rich picks carry their rust chip so the plan itself nudges the nutrient that matters most.
No second log to keep. When a meal you log matches any of a slot’s planned foods in its time window — breakfast 5–11am, lunch 11am–3pm, snack 3–6pm, dinner from 6pm — the slot flips to Logged on its own, and each day’s dot turns sage (followed) or coral (partly). A late dinner logged after midnight still counts for the day before, and a manual Followed/Skipped override always wins.
The week’s plan becomes what you’d actually buy: khichdi puts rice, moong dal and ghee on the list, not its dish name, and ingredients shared across dishes merge into one line. Tick items off as you shop — ticks are remembered per week — and staples the plan doesn’t know (curry leaves, biscuits) are one tap to add.
The Taste Passport
Every food your baby has ever tasted becomes a keepsake — an actual passport booklet you page through, built entirely from the meals you already log. No points, no streaks, nothing new to track.
The food page’s job is what-to-feed, so the passport sits as a small keepsake card — a mini navy cover with the baby’s face, the tally, and a fan of a few stamps — that opens the full booklet full-screen. It never crowds out the food guide, and the same card lives in Memories.
A navy, gold-foiled cover — the baby’s own photo set in the crest — that you tap to open and page through, cover to stamps, looking the same in light or dark, like a passport you hold.
A passport bio page: the baby’s photo, a passport number, nationality “Little Eater”, foods and groups tasted, an issue date, and a headline rank — the strongest palate title they’ve earned. Titles line up as endorsements, with the next one shown as a faint locked stamp.
Each food is stamped onto the pages — an inked, hand-tilted frame around its photo with the date first tasted as a postmark, grouped one food group per page. Notable firsts and the Annaprashan ceremony get their own red-ink page.