Feeding toddlers cherries

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I hope Mumsnet is a safe place to ask a suitably bougie question: how do you safely feed cherries to toddlers?

So far I’ve been biting off the half with the stone in and giving her the other half but is there a better way? Do I need to buy a cherry pitter?

Cut them in half. Remove the stone. Just like you would with grapes.

Cut them in half and take the stone out. If the pieces are still big,cut them a bit more. Bit fiddly but easy enough if they're ripe.

The recommendation with all small fruit is to quarter it length wise. All small round fruits given in nurseries have to follow this guideline.

How is it a bougie question?

A cherry pitter sounds like more of a faff than cutting them up as PPs above suggest.

I got mine to nibble around them like eating a tiny apple but that’s probably not best practice.

Depending on their age cut in half or quarters and remove the stone. Or if I’m on the go bite in half like you do

Take the pip out and then quarters . Cherry pitters are not a faff , it’s an excellent invention

This wasn't even on my radar! We have a cherry tree in the garden they climbed on garden chairs and helped themselves. I probably told them there was a stone in the middle the first few times. We used to have competitions to see who could spilt the stone the furthest. Bonus points if it cleared the fence.

Same here, I have a cherry tree in the garden, and my toddler has learnt to pick them, squish the stone out and eat them.

If I get shop brought, I cut the in half and just pull out the stone

You need one of these! https://amzn.eu/d/0hHUDMV2 I've had mine a few years and my children love doing it themselves (and then eating the cherries). For a toddler I'd probably then cut the cherries in half after taking the stone out.

I love my cherry pitter (Lakeland) and I love cherries 🍒. British ones are fabulous this year and a good source of vit C. For a toddler I'd pit, halve, then halve again.

A cherry pitter that can do 6 cherries at once (about £10 on Amazon) - purchased as I got fed up doing it the same way as you OP, and we eat masses of cherries!

same!

Buy frozen ones with no stone?

I have a cherry pitter and use it a lot but you can just use a chopstick to pop out the seed if you don't want to buy one.

I get my 5 year old to eat around the stone but would have removed when he was younger.
My problem with cherries is the juice. It gets all over his face, hands and clothes and stains! He loves them though so I just go with it but wow.

Thanks everyone!

TBH, it’s not the end of the world if a child swallows a cherry stone. It’ls too small to choke on and will come out the other end eventually.