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Finger Food Ideas for 22 month old

6 replies

Tillyboo · 31/01/2006 13:11

Any suggestions would be gratefully accepted. My dd will not eat anything hot at all (in meal form i.e. shepherds pie, bolognese etc). She'll only eat finger food that consists of cheese, tomatoes, boiled egg, maybe a bit of broccoli and cooked pasta and organic crisps. I've tried mini homemade meatballs, cheese straws, spaghetti nests but all I get is a very definite 'No' ...
Help ! I'm running out of ideas and worried she's not getting enough variety. She drinks plenty of water and has her milk willingly.

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yawningmonster · 04/02/2006 08:49

fritters: eg corn, meat and veg, tuna
hash browns
home made chips/ kumara wedges
crackers or toast with marmite, hummus, avocado etc
mini quiches
pizza
filo parcels
slices of cold meat
mini kebabs eg pineapple, cheese, grape/
meat, cheese, tomato
mini sausages
Will add more if I think of them. I am having the problem that I am vegetarian and ds is very swayed by watching me eat and therefore picks out all the meat that is offered and feeds it to the dog, unfortunately he has iron issues and needs the meat. He is also much more of a finger food lad than a meal lad so I can identify there, frustrating isnt it.

cathyspam · 04/02/2006 08:56

homemade mini pizza?

HellKat · 04/02/2006 09:05

houmous with garlic nan bread (yummy)
chips, wedges, smiles, alphabites etc
assorted veg (especially peas & corn)
hot dogs
noodles (have great fun pulling at them)
grapes, bananas etc
basically anything. You can make almost any food into finger food (we just chop everything up and leave him to it, he's 22 mths too).

gladbag · 04/02/2006 09:10

My ds likes chicken and apple patties (mince chicken with grated apple, onion, breadcrumbs and a bit of powdered stock, then fry in little burger shapes, or sausages). He will also eat cold 'chicken balls' (cooked chicken, whizzed in processor then added to mashed carrots and potato, formed in little balls and fryed). A lot of frying there I'm afraid!

Other finger foods -
lumps of cheesy scrambled egg, or squares of eggy bread (french toast)
veggie sausages
rice cakes (spread with marmite or peanut butter, if your dd will eat either)
cucumber and steamed carrot batons
sandwiches (ds still eats more if cut into small squares) made with bread or pitta - his favourite is a plain creamcheese filling.
cheese scones
fruit cake

If I think of more I'll add.... are you after more savoury and meaty type things? HTH

Rowlers · 04/02/2006 09:26

DD likes olives, nice ham, sweetcorn, bits of cheese, toast, naan bread, brioche, veggie sausages, scrambled egg. She will also eat lumps of chicken if cut up small from our thai green curry. Noodles area good sugestion. Veg seems to be off the menu at the moment. But fruit is always a winner. Satsumas, banana, raisins, grapes. Will he eat mash? DD laps it up.

zippitippitoes · 04/02/2006 10:24

oat cakes
chick pea patties
tuna processed with cottage cheese makes a good pate (in fact you can make a lot of pates with cottage cheese whizzed with other things like cannelini beans, mushrooms etc)

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