Food ideas thread!!! 11 month old!!

[lunavix]

Ideas needed!
Just tried to feed ds his usual favourite of fruit and yogurt for dinner and he REFUSED. Screamed!
Went to the park, came home, and it was an hour later. Tried again! Screamed!

In deperation made a slice of marmite on bread (remembered a thread on babies only wanting finger food off here) and lo and behold.. he's now eaten a slice with marmite and a slice with hommous! (WHich he had two of at lunch!)

So desperately need some finger food ideas as I'm worried now he'll only want bread for ever more! But other meal ideas welcome!

Breakfast - either banana and fig porridge, weetabix with banana or cheerios with banana (banana is pretty staple in this house!) OCCASIONALLY prune and apple porridge

Lunch - fruit toast, fruit muffin, or sandwich, with fruit

Dinner - was either a meaty annabel-karmel style dinner, or a bit of pasta or something, followed by homemade pureed fruit with yogurt.

Snacks - banana, bread stick, handful of cheerios, mini babybel!

ANy ideas appreciated!!
Plus any ideas on what age you can give them raisins and sultanas from?

bump!

finger food - strips of cooked chicken, finely chopped boneless white fish, pasta, cheese sticks, vegetable sticks (slightly boiled eg carrot, broccoli, potatoe)

other food - cheesy cous cous, mashed potatoe with cheese or tuna mayo, shepherds/cottage pie, lasagne, cheese on toast,

Chips: Sweet potato, parsnip, carrot, beetroot etc

Eggy bread
AK meatballs
Broccoli
Steamed veg strips
Chicken nuggets (homemade)
AK chicken sausages
Pitta bread with avocado/humuus etc

Hi Lunavix. My ds is 11 months old and I tried him with raisins a few weeks ago but he wasn't very interested. Just reintroduced them a few days ago and he is loving them so I would say try them now.
Things he likes for finger food are:
Blueberries
Banana
Clemetines - he just sooks out the juice and gives me the rest back
Cheese
Bits of pear
Mini oatcakes
Mini muffins
Ricecakes
Breadsticks

I've just thrown away the fourth dinner in a row tonight, can be so frustrating when they won't eat what you've given up your evenings to prepare!

May not be a popular one, but DD (just turned 1) likes brioche at the moment. She wolfs down peas if you place a pile in front of her and generally wnats to eat anything we have on our plates. Do you eat together or feed him separately? We have changed our habits so that we all eat at the same time and she seems to enjoy meal times so much more now. Also, she will not eat any savoury food pureed or partly lumpy - has moved straight to putting whole chunks of food in her mouth and is loving it!
Mashed potato not great finger food admittedly but she loves it on a spoon and tries to feed herself. Rice goes down well. We give her small chunks of meat too - bits of chicken, lamb etc - best if slow cooked so it's very tender.

I'll give you a list of stuff my 15mo eats, there might be something useful:
avocados
mango
pear
apple
grapes (cut up)
strawberries
carrot
broccoli
I've tried omelette, she won't touch it but you could try, it's 2 minutes to cook and easy to hold
grated cheese
lentil hot pot, mashed (no idea if this is ok for 11 mos), recipe is here somewhere
beefless bolognase, mashed (ditto to both above)
banana
oat bar things
dried fruit
toast and marmite/peanut butter (but some advise against giving it until 5yo, so decide for yourself)
satsumas
baked beans
yoghurt

Oh and peas!

and scrambled egg is gobbled up every time.

Ds 12 months loves spanish omelette made with mixed frozen veg and cheese. He loves peas so I think it appeals to him as he can see them in it!

I just cut it up into little chunks.

Could it be that he wants to try feeding himself from a spoon? My DD is 11 1/2 months and I have more success at getting in non-finger food if I give her a spoon and in between her trying to get it in (or mushing food between her fingers) I spoon in what I can. You can get great curved spoons that are easier for them to get in the mouth, a bowl with suction pad and newspaper/plastic sheeting for your floor and you are on your way!

Finger foods can be anything suitable that they can pick up with their fingers so if your dinner happens be something that you can cut up or has pieces you can give it a go eg pasta pieces coated in sauce, cooked veg, low salt/sugar baked beans (or cannellini beans cooked in your own sauce), fish pieces, small boiled dumplings, mini shredded wheat softened in milk, cheese, fruit, rice cakes, slices of tomato (skin removed by blanching if not enough teeth to deal with skin), cucumber, lettuce, avocado, pizza bread (pitta with tomato puree then cheese and any extras on top), breaded oven chicken strips and anything else mentioned on here already.

A really good finger food is little ricotta pancakes: the batter's basically flour, ricotta, egg, a tiny bit of milk, plus whatever you want to put in there. Frozen spinach (defrosted and drained), peas, sweetcorn, blueberries all work well.