You shouldn't have to guess your way through starting solids.
GrowwW walks you through the first months of solid food week by week — with clear steps, cards for individual foods and the major allergens, and two short check-ins a week.
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How it works
It rarely starts with a recipe. It starts with questions.
Parents starting solids are seldom short on motivation. What's missing is a reliable order to do things in. GrowwW is built around these four questions.
- When do we start — and how will I know it's time?
- GrowwW asks how old your child is and where you are right now, then begins there. No calendar already running before you're ready.
- Which allergens, in what order, and how often?
- The allergen cards cover the fourteen major allergens that must be labelled in the EU: what to offer, in what form, and how to keep it in regular rotation.
- What makes a good first bite — and what isn't one yet?
- Every food card shows preparation and texture by age, and says plainly what can wait.
- And how do I know we're getting anywhere?
- Two short check-ins a week. No score, no streak — just what your child has met so far.
Three things GrowwW takes off your hands
It puts things in order
Instead of a list with everything on it at once, GrowwW shows what this week is for — matched to your child's age and to what they've already met. What isn't due yet stays out of view.
It explains each food properly, once
Cards for foods and for allergens: texture and preparation by age, what to watch for, and what can wait. Written to be read at the counter while you cook, not as a course to complete first.
It keeps a record of what you did
A short look back on Wednesday and on Sunday — what your child tried, what went well, what you want to offer again. Two minutes, not a logbook.
The same food, four different ways
Carrot, as the app shows it: puréed, as finger food, cubed, at the family table. Not “carrot from 6 months”, but what that means at six months — and what it means at twelve.
6–8 monthsSmoothly puréed 
From 6 monthsAs a stick, cooked soft 
Around 9 monthsSmall cubes 
12–18 monthsAt the family table
The photographs show form and texture — not portion size, and not a safety instruction. Whether a given piece suits your child depends on what they can already do. In the app, every food and every age band carries the cues alongside it: how to judge texture and doneness, and how your child can grip it.
Photographs from the app’s food cards. Every card shows these forms for its own food.
What's in the app
Four areas that work together — not a box of features.
Coach — today and this week
The plan in weeks rather than days. You see what's due now, and nothing has to be ticked off for things to move on.
Knowledge — foods, allergens, background
Cards for individual foods, for the fourteen major allergens, and articles on the topics that genuinely raise questions when you start solids.
Diary — what your child has met
A list that grows over time. In two years it's a memory, not a statistic.
Wednesday check and Sunday check
Two fixed moments in the week to look back. If a week doesn't get one, nothing happens.
The cards work without a signal — useful in a kitchen.
Allergens belong early on, not at the end
The most common worry when starting solids is the order to introduce allergens in. So the cards in GrowwW don't treat them as a special case — they treat them as part of an ordinary week of food.
Allergen cards
The fourteen major allergens that must be labelled in the EU, each with texture, preparation, and how to keep offering it regularly.
major allergens
Good to know
Articles on iron, on the window for introducing solids, on gagging and choking, and on the move to the family table.
Food cards
Individual foods with preparation by age — from the first purée through to eating at the family table.
food cards
The content follows the recommendations of public professional bodies. It does not replace medical advice — least of all if allergies run in your family.
Browse the knowledge baseRecipes for the family table
Our recipe archive from the years before GrowwW: dishes for children who are past starting solids and eating at the family table. Filter by meal and by nutrient.
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GrowwW is available for iOS and Android, in German, English and Italian. Getting started is free.
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