Real Indian food for your baby, day by day.

Hi, I'm Aditi. By profession I'm a strategy consultant — my job is taking messy, conflicting information and turning it into a plan people can act on. At home, I'm mom to Aaryan.

When he turned six months and it was time to start solids, I'd just been let go after my maternity leave. So I was navigating a career I hadn't planned to pause and a first-time-parent question I had no idea how to answer: what do I actually feed him today? I was anxious about choking, but I still wanted to let him feed himself. I wanted to bring in allergens and iron properly without holding it all in my head. And I was juggling three or four sources at once — safety guidelines, recipes, allergen charts, a forum for reassurance — none of which quite agreed, and almost none of which were built for Indian food — our recipes, the everyday spices we cook with.

So I approached it the way I approach any hard problem at work: I trained in baby-led weaning through Gill Rapley's course — she pioneered the approach, via the Get Permission Institute — gathered the paediatric and nutrition guidance, separated what's proven from the noise, and turned it into something simple enough to use on a busy morning. I was a picky eater as a child, and I was determined Aaryan would grow up open to food.

I built it for Aaryan first — and it works. Two months in, he feeds himself with real confidence, has taken to more than 40 foods and 7 of the 9 common allergens, and mealtimes stay calm: no forcing, no battles. That became First Morsel — a calm, week-ahead plan for Indian baby food, with real recipes, allergens and iron handled with care, and every meal working spoon-fed or baby-led. The goal is simple: to get your baby eating what you eat.