Finger Food Suggestions

I am just now getting use to giving mine finger food as well but I found a GREAT book called Super Foods for Children by Michael van Straten & Barbara Griggs. It tells you all of great nutrient rich foods buy age as well as recipes and even full weekly meal plans. It's great! I got mine at Half Price Books. :)

The foods the other moms have mentioned are great but one more my daughter like is egg yolk. They can't have egg whites yet so I just hard boil some eggs and give her the delicious egg yolk and I eat the diet food egg white. haha Good luck!

they can eat anything, but nuts, eggs (until one)
my kiddos at cheese, hotdogs (cut very small) lunch meat, bananas, grapes (cut up), green beans, applesauce, pancakes, cereal, toast, chicken fingers, fish sticks, bagels

My daughter is 5 now and I can't remember exactly what we gave her at 11 months. But there are two things I'll never forget... We took her to a neighborhood Halloween party - lots of 1-2 year olds. They served PB&J sandwiches, which my daughter loved. So we got a jar of peanut butter and made her a sandwich at home. She started to have an anaphylactic reaction with hives. My husband and I had no idea what was going on because neither of us had been around food allergies before and because she was fine the first time she at peanut butter (apparently the reaction can come on the second exposure).

We called the pediatrician who said to give her Benadryl ASAP and if she didn't recover quickly, rush her to the ER. She has tested highly allergic to peanuts and tree nuts. I read tons of baby materials, but somehow missed the recommendation to wait on introducing the foods that cause the most allergic reactions.... probably because I never in a million years expected my child to be allergic to food.

The other item was hot dogs. We don't eat them, so not something I would have considered, but our pediatrician stressed the importance of not introducing these until kids are much older. He had a toddler choke on one and become permanently handicapped due to lack of oxygen to the brain. I think this is obvious - not to feed young children anything they can't mash, but I thought I'd mention it anyway.

My daughter loves cheese, I do remember giving her Kraft singles and goat cheese (which she still loves). I wish I could remember what else we gave her!

At 11 months your child can typically eat whatever you are eating - just use common sense on things like meats. Remove the peels from apples. Cut things small. My kids loved canned beans (rinsed and drained - kidney, pinto, black etc), cheeses, all kinds of cooked pasta, diced up chicken, all veggies, fruits, yogurt.

Basically they can eat anything you are eating as long as it is cut up so they don't choke on it. Of course there are always going to be some exceptions to that "rule", but for the most part it holds true (whole milk should still wait, but that's not far off either and you have to watch things like salt and sugar content). My pediatrician even recommends table food instead of the commercially available baby food (not that I followed that advice all the time since they are so convenient).

My kids were given whatever we were having when they were 6 pr 7 months old. Cut into small bits. You do need to stay away from whole milk, strawberries, egg whites, nuts and peanut butter (until age one). Also, I would avoid anything that is bad for them (like a powdered sugar donut or candy) since they don't know any better. My oldest son didn't have any candy until he was 2 o 3. Now my second one had it much sooner. My kids loved cheerios, fruit, steamed veggies, most any kind of meat (except for shellfish) and breads. Things to be cautious about - hot dogs, large amounts of soft bread, grapes, and large bites of anything. I remember really having to watch them with soft bread. They would put bite after bite into their mouths, but not really swallow it until they had a huge glob stuck in their mouth. Just give them small bites of what you are having and watch them carefully.

cheese cut in small pieces, apples cut in very small pieces, bananas, cheerios, pancakes cut in small pieces, peas, mashed potatoes, cooked carrots, etc. anything you can munch with your lips (like their gums) then it should be okay as long as it is cut in small pieces.

My 11 month old (1 year in 2 weeks) is completely done with baby food. She just stopped accepting it. I get the little toddler meals from Gerber & whatever other brands the different grocery stores carry. Also, the jars of diced carrots & apples from the baby food aisle. Gerber puffs & crunchy snacks are good. She also likes the toddler breakfast fruit bars, which I tear into small pieces that she can pick up & eat herself.

She eats small bits of soft fresh fruit & veggies. She loves peas, broccoli, peaches, green beans. For lunch I'll do some turkey or ham & cheese torn into small bits. I give her pasta, hamburger. Pretty much whatever we're having, she has. I never ever ever leave her alone while she's eating. She's been eating like this for about 3 or 4 weeks now & she's doing really well.

Have fun! :)

Steamed carrots(cut up), cubed pieces of advacado, small pieces of turkey, ham, cheese, bananas, small, soft pieces of cantalope, peaches, pears, pasta (plain or with a little butter or olive oil), crackers(like Ritz, saltine or animal), peas