My lo is 10 months and I am unsure of what kind of finger foods he can/will eat. So far he loves cheerios, pieces of banana and strawberries, and little biscuits. He seems to do better with sturdier food, the smushy ones tend to be a little bit more difficult for him to pick up.
I would definitely like to expand his palate and introduce him to more foods, just not sure how to go about it. Any good suggestions for getting started. Btw, he has seven, soon to be eight teeth, so chewing doesn't seem to be much of an issue.
Many thanks!
Wagon wheel pasta, elbow macaroni, cheese, cooked carrot pieces, Baby Mum Mums and puffed wheat.
By then, my DD was eating small pieces of anything. Even little chunks of steak.
One of her favorite things to snack on was any kind of pasta. I would boil some of the veggie-noodles (can't remember what they are called... but they are very colorful!) and give them to her plain, (sometimes I would put sauce on them...) and she would scarf them right down! Just make sure not to over-cook the noodles, or they will be too soft for him to pick up easily. :)
Sweet potato french fries (baked) were really popular with her too! :)
Noodles, cooked carrots, cooked green beans.
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I'm a fan of progresso chicken soup, with the soup part poured out. The noodles, carrots, etc all smoosh with just your tongue... and are wet enough to slide down even unchewed... but sturdy enough to be picked up with hands.
Also... sounds gross... but anything you chew up yourself. Not only do you make it pasted enough and wet enough to be swallowed easily, but the enzymes in your saliva start triggering your baby's body to start producing the same enzymes (cuts down on colic, gas, constipation).
you can start giving him anything you eat in size bites of his thumb nail. so what ever you have for breakfast give him. if you go out to eat give him some. same thing with supper.
At that age my granddaughter was eating whatever the rest of the family was eating. Just cut the food into small pieces.
Avocado is great if not too ripe, you can cube it. Baked apple pieces, cheese, quartered grapes, cubed butternut squash or sweet potato, toast soaked in some milk/formula cut into squares, mango is a favorite...best when outside seems over ripe :-)
