finger food ideas for a 9month old?

[lionbeast]

hi dd really loves finger foods,must love been able to hold them and feed herself.

so far shes loves toast bread carrot, brocalli, cauliflower, cheese

im struggling to come up with more ideas for finger food though.
any ideas gratefully recieved

How's about:

breadsticks, rice cakes, cucumber, melon, malt loaf (I think this is reasonably healthy...hope so, DS loves it) raisins (good for pincer grip!) or sausage rolls

My dd loves fruit as finger food. She has mango, grapes, apple, banana, strawberrys (her favourate,) sometimes pineapple and pear. She also loves breadsticks and baby bells.

For the pincer grip raisins are great and peas or sweetcorn.

croissants

oh thanks so much! ill can try every single one of these, dd could do with working on her pincer grip, think she struggles a bit to pick up peas.

ms s by baby bells do you mean the mini cheeses? bet dd would like those

i love giving dd finger food, mean i can get a break for 2 mins while watching her of course!!

please add any other suggestions anyone

Yeah the baby bell mini cheeses. They are easy to take with you when you out as well. I usually break it up into 4 pieces for dd.

ok great ill get some of those tomorrow, dd loves cheddar

sandwiches - dd had cream cheese and avocado today - messy mushy fun!

scrambled egg/omelette cut into strips.
Pasta - overcooked.
fruit pieces (apple and other hard fruit, cook a little so it is soft).
A whole banana?!! My DD loved it!

hi again meep, yep has tried sandwiches she loved them.

my DS currently loves raspberries, Organix crispy-type things (like giant wotsits but with no salt), well-cooked baby sweetcorn, though spits it out after chewing/gumming. Mini-ricecakes spread with other stuff good too.

I get stuck for ideas for sandwich fillings?

From about that age my DD3 has eaten pretty much the same as us - with her fingers!

Cheerios, Shreddies, toast, sandwiches cut into strips, fruit, veg, cherry tomatoes (cut in half), cucumber, breadsticks, cheese, scrambled egg, pasta, a roast dinner....

MsSparkle - for sandwich fillings I do ham, cheese, chicken, Marmite (just a scraping), cream cheese, peanut butter, tuna, egg, cucumber.

Hi lionbeast!
dd also has a thing for prunes! As she's not got any teeth yet I mush out the soft bit in eth middle and she can't get enough of it - I'm sure if I put that on a piece of bread she'd eat it !

I use bread as a spoon when she is having a spoon refusing day! So her sandwich fillings are whatever it is she's meant to be eating!

tuna is a good filling. or philadelphia - gets licked off mainly!

I haven't tried philly or tuna yet - been worrying about salt content: do I need to?

you do need to keep an eye on salt content, but if everything else is low salt, not being added and the rest of the food for the day is salt free, close to...i think its fine once in a while. I gave it to DD from time to time, once a week or so.

Monkeybird - I would think as long as you use tuna in springwater rather than brine the salt content isn't a problem. Cream cheese is ok too.

Agree - tuna in spring water is what we use too

thanks for all your great ideas dd is in for a treat

eggy bread
cheese on toast
mini pitta pizzas - strips of toasted pitta with cheese, tomato sauce and sweetcorn etc

pasta spirals with grated cheese