Finger foods for an 8 month old .. please help

Sheree - posted on 03/13/2010

My daughter has never had a jar of baby food and i refuse to give it to her. She has only ever had real food, i mashed it in the begining but now she just eats everything. My daughter has been eating our food since 6.5 months and is now almost 9 she also only has 2 teeth. i have listed below what we started feeding her and what she is having now.

For breakfast she usually has:

farex, weet bix, toast, pancakes or scrambled eggs

Lunch is fruit, or fruit and yoghurt:

kiwi fruit, water melon, rock melon, peaches, strawberries, apples, pears, banana, nectrines, oranges, mangos and avacados.

Dinner veg include:

sweet potato, potatoe, pumpkin, squash, beans, peas, spinach, broccoli, cauilflower, chokos, zucchini and carrots.

I only puree (magic bullet) apples and pears as she doesnt like them cooked. The rest I just mash with either a fork or potato masher.

But now that she is eating our food she has, chicken fettuccine, apricot chicken, roast with roast veg, pork on the bbq, lamb loin chops and veg, meatloaf, spag bowl, rissoles, tuna mornay, lemon chicken, basically whatever we are having for dinner. I dont puree her meat just hand it to her and she feeds herself. Babies have one of the best gag reflexes so generally if they swallow something too big they will bring it back up quite easily. Also for snacks if she is hungry through the day, i give her biscuits, yoghurt, toast or custard. A lot of the fruits and vegetables i give to her to fed herself as with the meats.

Hope this helps a little :)

Melissa - posted on 03/12/2010

Steamed veggies and fruits of any kind. Same things he liked as purees, just steam and dice into bits he can eat/gum.

Sara - posted on 03/12/2010

Steamed veggies (peas, cubed carrots, squash, cubed sweet potato), pasta, small pieces of fruit (melon, peaches, pears, plums), freeze dried fruit or veggies (if you can find them), whole-grain bread cubes, avocado chunks, yogurt...Maybe some dry cereal (i.e. Cheerios). We did rice cakes a little later...

Vicki - posted on 03/12/2010

Anything we're eating really, although I try to stay away from over processed artificial non-food crap. Some ideas: steamed carrots sticks, beans, roasted vegies, chicken drumsticks, rice cakes, sticky rice, grapes cut in half, pieces of stone fruit such as plums, pasta pieces, tomato slices, cherry tomatoes cut in half, asparagus, hommous or creamed corn on toast, cucumber sticks, spaghetti. I don't usually prepare separate food for him, I just give him what we're having.

Hallie - posted on 03/12/2010

my daughter started solids from 4 months when she started wanting my food i was making up plates of different vegies with some chicken and tomato and bread she loved eating the different stuff herself , she loves frankfurts and sausages as well but not till she was 13 months.. i think if they want it give it to them

Marissa - posted on 03/12/2010

I've never heard of those. Where would I find them?

Brianna - posted on 03/12/2010

popcorn twists just break them up first they melt in there mouth