We're all
about finger foods in our house.
Before you start thinking
about finger foods, always keep the following tips in mind:
If you are unsure
about a finger food wait until your child is a little more practiced before offering it but there are a few things you can ask yourself before serving it:
Not exact matches
What I really like
about this mess - free
finger food is that it's super easy and requires just a few ingredients.
Street
food is all
about convenience — packing the most flavour into something you can eat with your
fingers.
I was daydream
about having endless
foods to cook with and try right at my
fingers tips!
You know what I'm talking
about: the dense and decadent
finger foods, the ones that are crispy on the outside, soft on the inside?
Well, this vegan tofu fish sticks recipe makes for a
finger food to feel good
about.
I wanted to make eating as enjoyable as possible for my lil one, and not having to worry
about the
food breaking apart in his
fingers was key.
7 - 9 months: 60g bolognese to 50g pasta plus
about 20g of vegetables as
finger food (for this age range you can blend the bolognese and pasta together with a little of baby's usual milk) 10 - 12 months: 80g bolognese to 50g pasta plus 30g vegetables as
finger food (for this age range you can blend / chop the pasta to make it easier to eat) 1 - 4 years: 90g bolognese to 80g pasta plus 40g vegetables
What
about a potato salad
finger food?
Needless to say, I want to talk
about meat sweats,
finger food, and quinoa bakes with as many of you as humanly possible.
As I mentioned in my post
about teriyaki (vegan) meatballs, more than anything else, the Super Bowl is an excuse for my to bring my vegan
finger foods A-game.
But here's what I do happen to know
about the SuperBowl: Commercials are a hit, fried
finger foods make the game, and the first Sunday of every February is when it takes place....
There's just something
about crispy breaded
finger food.
There's just something
about a well organized table of
finger - sized
foods that makes me feel I am trying a carrot dipped in ranch dressing for the first time.
Be sure to look at the other posts on this blog
about starting solids,
finger foods, and eating with a spoon.
We now know to wait to start until they're around 6mo, at which point they're able to actually eat real
food (for example, if they HAD started at 3 weeks, they'd have graduated to «
finger foods» by
about this time).
Here are a few links to
finger food ideas, tips on how to avoid power struggles at meal time and how to help the picky eater becoming more enthusiastic
about eating.
Michele Olivier and Sara Petermell's «Little Foodie: Baby
Food Recipes for Babies and Toddlers with Taste», and Jenna Helwig's «Real Baby
Food: Easy, All - Natural Recipes for Your Baby and Toddler», are creative books that also talk
about the different combinations of baby led weaning
finger foods that your baby will surely love!
Bread or toast
fingers are a very common
food for babies, mainly because they are high in carbohydrates, which gives baby energy to go
about skipping and hopping all throughout the house.
When your child begins to do things like sit up in the bathtub or eat
finger foods, find simple stories
about daily routines like bedtime or bathtime.
I often field questions like these from parents who are cautious
about starting
finger foods for baby:
Find out
about choosing safe
finger foods and which
foods can be unsafe for toddlers and children up to age 5.
First, always make sure the
food is
about the size of an adult pinky
finger or larger.
When your babe is ready for
finger foods, banana is super easy to cut up and serve (and fun for baby to squish and learn
about different textures too!)
My baby is almost nine months and is 21 lbs, I also have an older child who was
about 24 lbs at that age... I think that you have to look at how they start out too... My babies were both almost nine pounds when they were born so they are continuing with that trend of being bigger for their age... If it helps my nine month old eats
about 3 jars of stage 3 baby
food a day plus
finger foods and
about 32 oz of formula.
A health visitor recently told a friend of mine that mothers are misunderstanding what baby - led weaning is all
about, and that its not just
finger foods, you still have to spoon feed them as well to make sure they get enough nutrients.
Learn more
about the best
finger foods and when to introduce them and what it means if your toddler pushes
food out of his mouth.
Toast is a fun and simple way to give your baby a tasty
finger food that can be topped with just
about anything.
When you're trying baby led weaning, you'll soon find out that just
about anything can become a
finger food.
By
about 9 to 10 months, your baby will start moving away from purees and begin eating
finger foods — small pieces of the stuff you're eating.
I mashed
food for
about two days before going to
finger foods with my youngest.
I really struggled with it, particularly when I had to wage an all out campaign to get my daughter eating
finger foods so that she could move up to the older baby's room when she was
about a year old.
We chatted
about all things starting solids with babies and I shared why the mixed approach to solids (purees +
finger foods) may be the best way for many parents to share love for
food and eating with their babies.
About a month after she was born she was completely stopped up so my doctor suggested that i put some baby
food prunes on my
finger and let her suck it off.
While reading comments they say font give your baby water I just have to say if your baby is constipated they need the extra water to help soften the stool helped my boy took a week BUT when he got constipated again I used probiotics and in 2 HOURS he was pooping again he also started cereal at 2 months he was going through 24oz of milk at each feeding and he has a milk protein allergy (gets hives) so having him on special formula cost
about 100 $ every 2 days so pablum was best for him now 7 months on
finger foods, solids, cereal, and formula (of course) 2x a day and doing fine.
Read our tips and hints for offering your baby
finger foods and learn
about the developmental readiness needed for your baby to enjoy baby
finger foods.
You may also think
about introducing
finger foods and more textured «table»
foods at this age range.
If you haven't heard
about Baby Led Weaning (BLW) yet (where babies skip the puree stage and eat
finger foods from their first bite), check out my BLW Online Course.
By now, your baby eats solid or semi-solid
foods and should have
about two of the following breakfast items suggested for 10 - month - old babies soon after waking for the day: 1/4 to 1/2 cup cereal, oatmeal, yogurt, cooked mashed egg, or bite - sized bagel or fruit pieces for breakfast, depending on his ability to self - feed and eat
finger foods.
The Baby Led - Weaning movement is all
about letting your child explore
finger food - sized portions of grown - up
foods themselves instead of being spoon - fed purees and cereals.
If you're interested in skipping the purees altogether and starting your baby on
finger foods, find out more
about baby - led weaning.
We started with purees, but since
about 7 months she really only eats
finger foods.
When your baby reaches between 7 - 8 months old and has a pretty good pincher grasp, you may think
about offering him
finger foods.
Standing over the counter, cheese grater in hand, I reached for the peeled apple and it suddenly struck me; never have I written
about the Cheese Grater as a tool for making baby
finger foods!.
Grab - and - go,
finger food type menus are usually a hit at holiday parties, and the best thing
about them is that they don't take much preparation and many items, such as olives or pistachios, can be store - bought.
I'm a family
food blogger and I still feel defensive just thinking
about it, like my crazy button has been punched with a big, judgy
finger.
Most babies are ready for
finger foods at
about 9 months.
Please see our
finger foods page for more information
about allowing your child to safely feed himself.