Help! I need ideas of first finger foods.

KelleyA

DD is only 7 months and starting to refuse baby food, oh joy!

If she had her way she'd sit and eat star puffs all day long...not gonna happen.  I know I've done this before, but I can't remember what foods she can/can't have. She's teething and I think she just prefers the harder stuff because it feels good on her teeth.

Thank you! 

Suzi-G-

I think the first things Cooper had besides puffs were bananas, pears, melon (any soft fruit) cheerios, bread, eggs, and pancakes. 

I don't really know about "can't have" I'm really relaxed about food.  My pedi said at our 6mo appt that he likes to see kids on all table food by 9 months and that a lot of the newer research is showing that allergies are blown way out of proportion.  So I threw all the precautions out the window and just started feeding Cooper off my plate around 7 months, I'd just cut things up really small for him and let him go to town.  The only things I waited at all on were strawberries and chocolate (because of family history of allergies) and PB but we introduced all of those before a year. 

Kimmer123

Suzi-G-:

I think the first things Cooper had besides puffs were bananas, pears, melon (any soft fruit) cheerios, bread, eggs, and pancakes. 

I don't really know about "can't have" I'm really relaxed about food.  My pedi said at our 6mo appt that he likes to see kids on all table food by 9 months and that a lot of the newer research is showing that allergies are blown way out of proportion.  So I threw all the precautions out the window and just started feeding Cooper off my plate around 7 months, I'd just cut things up really small for him and let him go to town.  The only things I waited at all on were strawberries and chocolate (because of family history of allergies) and PB but we introduced all of those before a year. 

Ditto. We're pretty relaxed about food. G's favorite meat is (and always has been) steak. He got his first steak around 9 months I think?

He also hated purees. We started them around 5 1/2 months and he was completely done with them by 6 1/2 months. So instead of pureeing his food I just cut it into small chunks for him. I think it was more of a he wanted to do it himself kind of thing. 

princessmah

We did lots of the same as Suzi.  I started Allie on finger foods later because she got teeth late and was fine with the purees.  She LOVES puffs and Cheerios and wanted that all the time in the beginning.  She still eats those but here are some other ideas:  Goldfish, bananas, chopped strawberries, sliced steamed veggies (like carrots, peas), eggs, beans and rice, grilled cheese (I just rip it in to small pieces), Peas of Mind puffetts (they have a carrot risotto and a black bean one with the organic frozen foods at HEB), pancakes and mini waffles (again I rip them to smaller pieces).

kat.in.the.hat

here are two good beyond purees websites

 https://www.babyledweaning.com/

 

https://www.wholesomebabyfood.com/babyledweaning.htm

M&M614

Ditto everyone.  We also did some other things.  My kids also wanted to self-feed at a young age. And honesty -- I love it!  Independence is a great thing. 

Toast with the fruit purees spread on top, cut into chunks.

Pasta (usually the bigger kinds or spirals) with cut up chicken and veggies.  Throw in a tiny splash of olive oil and even some garlic powder or other spices.

cut up chicken, fish, etc

I would steam veggies and cut them into bite size pieces instead of pureeing them and freeze. They were awesome.

HTH!

 

melissa0312

cheerios

mum-mums (rice rusks, found in baby section at heb and target)

bananas

apples (might want to remove the skin since its a little tough with no teeth)

whole wheat crackers

peas

yellow squash

mom2ll

all the stuff above and also rice, cheese cubes, couscous, beans, baked potato and sweet potato, peas, various dry cereal, puffed wheat, grahm crackers, berries...  I also made smoothies and put them in a straw sippy.  Drinkable yogurt works too...  I like the take in toss cups (but we don't toss them) with a the straw lid.  You can use regular straws and cut them to the right height for your kiddo

KelleyA

Thank you all so, so much!  I made some steamed carrots and broccoli today and she munched on them.  I think they were a bit too tough for her but she liked munching on them.  I'm going to give all of these ideas a go.  Thank you!

kreeper611

Small cubes of cheese, pasta (I buy this baby penne - it is perfect size), Cooper is a huge fan of frozen peas - just right out of the bag, uncooked.  Small pieces of banana...we didn't do eggs until after a year per our pedi.  I also would grill chicken and shred or cut it up really small.