Finger foods

Re: Finger foods

• amp61470 member

  August 2016

  Little man is 11 months old and early intervention asked if he is eating carrot sticks so while I am not a STM I feel confident in saying carrot sticks are okay. No idea about celery but it would worry me because it's so stringy.. I'll be following this thread. 

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• AmandaNacora member

  August 2016 edited August 2016

  I was giving LO carrot sticks when she didn't have teeth, it helped with teething. Now that she has gotten her teeth I'm a little afraid. I do give her a lot of veggies raw. She really likes raw green beans and bell peppers strips. We give her a lot of fruit also. Right now she's super into mandarins, she cannot get enough! We don't cut it up, just peel it apart and give it to her as we would eat it. She's been eating these awhile and just got her first teeth 2 weeks ago so I'm sure if your LO has teeth it'll be okay.
  
  Edit: I think celery would be okay if you de-string it and cut it into thin stricks. De-stringing is a little tedious but get's easier the more you do it.

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• mrsmctaggart6 member

  August 2016

  Thanks, I'm going nuts trying to keep this little bottomless pit fed! I had read that raw carrots were a choking hazard when they could bite off a chunk, I wasn't sure because she doesn't have molars but she has the first 4... I hadn't even thought about the stringiness, I was just worried about biting off a chunk but then not being able to chew it... I wanted to give them to her with peanut butter/ hummus... (Ok I'm craving that and want an excuse to buy it, lol)

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• RobsMrs77 member

  August 2016

  Been giving carrot sticks for a few months now too. Like @AmandaNacora said it helps with teething, I pop them in the freezer for half an hour or so, not to freeze, just so they would be colder than being in the fridge, nice and cool on his gums.
  Lots of his finger food gets launched across the room, lol (yes, he's at the throw everything stage) Jake doesn't seem to have a problems eating them. He has 6 teeth now (all at the front)  I haven't tried celery yet either. It's cucumber, slices of red peppers, carrot sticks; slices of apple, banana, pear slices, blueberry's and his favourite; strawberry's. Love seeing his little face when he bites into one... Then it's gone in seconds. Haha
  
  

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• mrsmctaggart6 member

  August 2016 edited August 2016

  Hahaha so cute! The face is priceless! Roo eats pretty much everything we do at this point, I was worried about the hard raw veggies but I think we're gonna go for it!she loves cucumbers and peppers, the carrots and celery were my last hold outs
  
  eta strawberries are roo's favorite too

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• RobsMrs77 member

  August 2016

  @mrsmctaggart16 just discovered tonight that sugar snap peas go down well too. Haha. They're naturally sweet, minus the sugar. 
  Ha! Strawberries seem to be a favourite. 
  
  P.S I LOVE the 'Roo' 

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• ForeverEverAfter member

  August 2016

  With raw veggies I slice them very thinly, so they won't be choking hazards. LO eats carrots, cucumber, bell pepper, etc. I've let her gnaw on celery, but she wasn't able to eat much.

  

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• mrsmctaggart6 member

  August 2016

  Thanks for all the input guys, I'll definitely try slicing thin, we've just been doing a lot of cucumbers for snacks cuz they decided to explode in the garden and DH is a weird one and doesn't like them, lol, Roo is a weird unintentional nickname for Rosalie, my friend started calling her rosa roo and the roo stuck, I like it thank goodness 

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• RobsMrs77 member

  August 2016

  mrsmctaggart6 said:

  Thanks for all the input guys, I'll definitely try slicing thin, we've just been doing a lot of cucumbers for snacks cuz they decided to explode in the garden and DH is a weird one and doesn't like them, lol, Roo is a weird unintentional nickname for Rosalie, my friend started calling her rosa roo and the roo stuck, I like it thank goodness 

  It's a boss name! 

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• mrsmctaggart6 member

  August 2016

  Lol thanks I like to think so! I agonized over it because I hate my name with a passion...

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