Snacks

[Imicola]

Hi all. My DD is 8 months, and I think I need to start introducing snacks as she sometimes seems hungry before meal time, and milk is not always cutting it!

I'm struggling to think of what snacks to give however. I've bought some of the baby puff things (gone for the ones with the lowest sugar content), but they still taste pretty sweet to me and are basically air, so I am not really sold on those! I've also got rice cakes and bread sticks.

Any other suggestions? Raw veg she chews on but can't really eat, and ideally I need something quick that doesn't need cooking!

The rest of her diet is varied. Breakfast of weetabix, porrige, yogurt and fruit or something along those lines. Lunch and tea are usually some variation on what we eat - curry and rice, omelette, soup and bread, fish and potatoes etc. At tea time she also gets pudding, which is something like custard or rice pudding (with no sugar) and fruit.

Thanks in advance!

Banana,
Apple slices, watermelon, other fruits chopped up.
Pepper slices with hummus
Toast fingers
Chunks of cheese
Rice cakes

Sorry you already said rice cakes! The Aldi mini ones are good, apple flavour, no added sugar.

Strips of ham
Avocado
Butter beans
Oat cakes
I used to buy packets of frozen mango chunks. When they thawed, the mango was really quite soft and it saved me peeling and cutting it off the stone.
Tinned fruits are also handy. They’re usually softer after having been soaked in the juice and it saves peeling.

Thanks both. I have plenty of fruit in the house so I guess that is an obvious choice. I shall give some of these a go! I guess if I keep giving her raw veg and apples and things as well, eventually she'll get better at eating it!