A list of delish and easy finger foods suitable from 6 months onwards....

[PutThatInYourPipeandSmokeIt]

• Chunks of deseeded watermelon

• roasted root vegetables in chunks / chips (e.g. carrots, potato, sweet potato, pumpkin, butternut squash etc)

• Organix rice cakes with apple and cinnamon (or plain unsalted ones)

• Toast fingers + / butter / mashed fruit / avocado / humous / cream cheese etc etc

• steamed carrot batons

• steamed broccoli spears

• steamed asparagus spears

• wholemeal (or otherwise) bread crusts

• Mango - cut a chunk off the side with the skin still attached (to make it easier to hold)

• Peach - chunk with skin still on

• Pear - chunk + skin

• Cucumber sticks

.....just to start us off - please add your ideas!!

• Pasta spirals +/- tuna / pesto / olive oil / tomato sauce etc

• Kellogs Raisin Wheats softened with full fat cow's milk

I've been meaning to ask this - is pesto OK? I'm thinking of the pine nut angle. Or is it just peanuts that you have to beware of?

potato cakes/ scones/ farls
those sweetcorn patties on aitchs blog
pineapple slices
chapattis/tortillas

Pesto should be absolutely fine - anyone else know anything to the contrary??

• Blueberry muffin

pesto is packed full of salt and is a definite no-no for the under 2's.

Be very,very wary of any adult processed food as it will invatiabley contain waay too much salt for toddlers.

i've got to say that dd loves pesto and eats it a lot and always has done. i am wary of adult processed food, genereally speaking, but i use so little pesto that pound for pound i'm not too worried.

i've heard pita bread is good, and you can give houmous (or however you blardy spell it!) but ds has turned his nosse up at houmous and we've not tried pita yet...

Cheese! We live on it
Bread sticks
Strwberrriesssss
dried figs
cherry toms
bagels and lots of butter (non-salted of course)
malt loaf ditto the butter

it's quite sweet watching dd eat gnocci with a sauce - can be a bit slippery

corn on the cob - steamed & cut into 'wheels'

dried apricots - soaked for younger ones

cheese on toast soldiers

puffed wheat (Sainsburies do no suger, salt etc)

we tried dd2 with some pieces of chicken tonight (which she sucked a little rather than ate but seemed to quite like).

My HV suggested waiting for a bit longer before introducing wheat - anyone else had this?

And does anyone else's baby start choking on their carrots?

i used to steam the carrots to within an incho of their lives. raw, i think they're pretty chokeable tbh, once the baby gets good enough at eating to start breaking bits off.

I've been giving her carrots off my plate which are soft enough for her to break in two in her fists - maybe I still need to go softer? (had to pull a carrot out of her mouth the other day)

how old is she? maybe she's ready to ditch the chip-shaped and go for smaller bits? gill rapley makes a big deal of chip-shaped but in my experience once dd got the hang of it she preferred to exercise her pincer grip for a while. and also, was it choking choking, or a bad gag? did the baby go blue, for example? was there deadly silence? if not, best leave them to it, i say.

more like a bad gag by the sound of it. No blueness.

she's 6½ months and only just getting the hang of putting things to her mouth. She's very excited by it though; a couple of weeks ago she wasn't keen at all so we left it for a while.

Can I add:

Toasted fruit loaf with loads of butter
Adult ricecakes (Sainsburys do a low-salt version) with philadelphia spread on
Melba toast (my DS has it with jam on)
Breadsticks

Whoops - DS loves pesto too. Still alive so far......

DS also loves sucking the juice out of orange segments

Fresh figs
Roasted peppers
Mozzarella (is this allowed??)

I love the corn on the cob wheel idea

just let them really cool down, putthat, the centre of a corn cob stays scaldingly hot for A Long Time.

just checking: is there anything wrong (like too much salt) with crumpets? My ds loves them! thanks for useful ideas everyone..

This is a super tedious question re finger food but has been bugging me since I started weaning a few weeks ago.
If my DD is having cheese, steamed veg., pitta & fruit for her tea in a finger food stylee should I chuck the whole lot onto her tray & let her get stuck in or give her one piece at a time & wait till she has finished mucking about with it before offering another piece?
How mundane was that?? .