help on meal ideas.....

[andie82]

had a total nightmare weaning DD1, now 1.2 years old.

Will eat baby slop with no problem and now I'm trying to get her to feed herself proper food.

She will eat cheese, bread, peppers, tomatoes, cucumber, carrotts and pretty much anything with chocolate on.

Has anyone got any ideas for good finger foods so that she can just feed herself from now on?

Can't you just offer her whatever you are eating? Let her use her fingers to eat it and hopefully you'll find she'll enjoy exploring new foods.

Finger foods my LO found easier to start with were

pears
avocados
biscuits
baked beans
any sort of tinned beans
toast
oatcakes with things spread on them
scrambled egg
chocolate, like you say!

what about things on toast like cheese?

Jacket spuds with tuna mayo and sweetcorn. Just mash it and leave her to it. Sweet potato chips, omelette, pancakes, eggy bread, home made pizza......anything you eat, really.

dd3 (14 months) eats everythign we eat but if I am doing somethign especially for her she likes:
sandwiches (dd3 loves peanut butter not sure whether that is recommended though )
bits of cheese (is obsessed with babybels )
all fruit, all veg
egg
chunks of white fish
sausages
pasta with meatballs or tomato sauce or tuna
loves pizza too

little strips of omelette make excellent finger food

little fish patties (mash, fish in small cakes)

DS also eats what we eat (he's 15m) but I sepcifically make him sometimes: sweet potato chips, fish fingers, pitta pockets (with tuna and mayo, chicken and avocado, tuna and cheese and other combinations), pasta pockets like tortellini with home made tomato sauce (mayo, toms and Worcester sauce blitzed up). He's now pretty good with a fork so he has stuff he can use one with as well.

dd3 loves those stuffed tortellini things from the chill cabinet - pesto and goast cheese

Tesco Finest do HUGE pasta shells that are excellent for little ones to use to scoop food up with, much mroe fun than a spoon but similar skills LOL.

Sweet Potato wedges are great as an alternative taste to widen a pallette

Thanks so much for these.

Since posting this her eating has improved loads - typical!!!

Will try some of your suggestions though!