finger foods

[missboo]

help
does anyone have any ideas how to stop myself panicking over giving finger foods to DS soooo very worried about choking! he is 28 weeks also trying to get him to drink from tommy teepi cup!! but no joy yet just chews it

OK oatcakes as follows:

• 8oz oatmeal
• a good pinch of salt (obviously miss this out for low salt ones)
• 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 dessertspoonful of melted fat the recipe suggests butter or lard but I use olive oil
• hot water

Mix all the dry ingredients together with a well in the middle and pour in the fat. Blend in enough hot water to make a stiff paste then knead and roll out as thinly as possible. Cut into triangles and bake on a floured tin at 200 degrees until the ends curl up and the cakes are crisp. Alternatively, bake them on a hot girdle or frying pan.

Now, that's the recipe, but what I do is take little blobs of the mix and flatten them into oatcakes with my hands. So, they are rustic looking and not thin enough to curl up when cooked. Also, little helpers can help because the mix cools very quickly even though you use hot water.

Enjoy

i'm going to buy that book anyway, danielsmummy, have been meaning to do it for ages.
thanks for the recipe mawbroon, i'll stick it up tonight.

hell mawbroon,
it's up here

but i need more detail on the oatmeal... is it pinhead?

thanks for that,
h x

I just use "normal" oatmeal but pinhead would do as well. Porridge oats could probably be used at a push after a blitz in the food processor, but I've never tried it, so don't blame me if you try it and the oatcakes are vile.

I don't know about the availability of oatmeal in England for anyone reading who lives there. My sister lives in London and stocks up every time she comes home (to Scotland) for a visit because she claims not to be able to buy it down south. I would have thought that with the fad for whole foods at the moment that it would be readily available, but I'll take her word for it. I do know that Lakeland sell the Alfords stuff.

Also I forgot to say that the cooking time is somewhere between 20 - 30 mins.

Mawbroon, I tried your ryvita tip today, but it ended up on the floor before even reaching his mouth, so I'll have to give that another go.

LOL Danielmummy. We got rid of our old carpet and put down a wooden floor for that very reason. Boy am I glad we decided to do it!!

I forgot to mention as well that my ds loves polenta. Don't use the ready made stuff because it's really salty. If you buy your own and make it up without salt, then pour it into a dish to set and cut into slices. The slices then freeze perfectly and defrost in the microwave in around a minute. It's great for those "what is ds going to eat" moments when I've been out longer than expected, or just plain forgot to get his meal ready It tastes a bit bland to me without salt, but ds doesn't seem to mind at all. It's also not too messy so is good for out and about when it's just not appropriate to make a big mess with yogurt or whatever.

Sorry to hijack.....For those whose LO's wont be spoon fed (like mine). What do you do finger food wise for puddings? LO used to like soya yogurts alot (she is MPI) but now wont eat them as is refusing spoon and doesnt seem interested in it if its just dolloped on her tray. Alot of fruit (her fav was mango) is very slippery if fed as finger food.

any ideas/recipies welcome as i am now finding it much harder to feed either fruit or yogurt (which is helpful as she doesnt drink all that much milk).

thanks
alice

sorry meant to say she is nearly 10 months

Jasperc, my DS is nine months and quite happily munches through sliced, pear, nectarine, greengage, plum and apricot, to name but a few . I leave the skin on and he either spits it out or consumes it! With banana I break it in half and then put my finger up the broken end which divides it neatly into three.

HTH

Jasper, my ds is 10 months and he manages melon, grated apple, banana, berries if i cut them, grapes etc etc. I used to squash the slippery stuff slightly which made it easier for him to grip. Fruit has been the only pudding so far, so can't come up with any other suggestions.

thanks all, i guess i'll have to keep trying. She is going through a fussy stage i think and doesnt want any of the old stuff like yogurt or fruit at the moment. Will only eat veg if its on toast!

driving me nuts :-(

alice

Veg on toast sounds healthy enough to me... I still can't get DD to eat fruit, I'm sure it's the texture she doesn't like.

All i can say is thank heavens for bread or we would prob still be refusing to eat any solids at all. Everything has to come on toast here :-)

I worry she has too much bread but not much i can do about it!

hi there i know this is a bit cheeky but how do you start a new thread ive never done one before but want some advice on when you stop strealizing bottles and starting progress milk its been that long ive forgotten!!!!!!!!!

go to the topic you want the thread to be in, then go to 'start new conversation'

btw, i never have sterilised anything (search for threads on this...there have been a few) and have heard there is no need for follow on formula and you can continue on the normal stuff, but not sure as have bf my 2. think it says 6 months on the tin though??

thank you ill have a look for those threads now

thanx again

Jasper, try cutting the fruit up into chunks and coating it in yogurt. DS loves this and it's a good way of getting yogurt into him (he's also a spoon refuser. Unless he's inaccurately and inefficiently wielding it himself.)