13 yrs, 4 mths ago

Finger food ideas

Does anyone have any ideas ford some finger food recipes? I have, what feels like, the worlds fussiest 9 month old and need some more ideas to feed him. He is a real independant little character and we never were able to get him to take any purees. We ended up having to get a speech pathologist and behavioural social worker to come out and assess him because he refused to eat – turns out that there was nothing physically wrong with him, he just doesn’t like other people feeding him. Once we stopped trying to feed him and started giving him finger foods and allowing him to feed himself he started eating quite well (from 5month to 8.5 months he only put on 300g then in the fortnight since he has been eating finger foods he has put on 400g).

He is still quite fussy – he won’t even try anything that feels slimy/slippery – so that rules out just about every fruit and vegetable, egg, pasta, cheese…however, he loves vege omlettes, pikelets with fruit or veges smuggled in. He also won’t eat anything that is warm so if I cook something I then have to chill it back down again. His favourite foods are toast and watermelon…so thats what most meals end up containing.

Does anyone have any ideas/recipes of stuff that I can make him that he can hold to feed himself?

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  • 13 yrs ago

    I used to always make vegies mash them all up then spread them on bread and put cheese on them and put under the grill …bubz is fussy with fruit and veg so i find little tricks to make her eat well 🙂

  • 13 yrs ago

    Hehe my bubz lovveees french toast also 🙂

  • 13 yrs ago

    LOL, it doesn’t sound too good does it Mel !
    Thanks for the tips BS ~ i think i’ll try the peanut butter soon, i made him french toast the other day and he loooved it !

    We don’t have any allergies that run in our family so what i did at first (when he was about 9 or 10 months old) was get a small blob of peanut butter and put it into the hole of a fruit loop as they were one of the only foods he ate back then, to test whether he would react. Someone else told me to rub it on their hand, if they dont break out in a rash then try it as a food. I think he started eating whole peanut butter sandwichs around 11-12 months. He is the youngest in my mothers group so i used to start doing things when the other mothers were trying things forgetting that he is actually a month or so younger than some of the other bubs. He still has a peanut butter sandwich for breakfast every day with some other ingredient smuggled into it – his favourite is cream cheese peanut butter and egg. Can’t get him to touch egg when it is on its own but apparently its delicious on a peanut butter sandwich! I have also done peanut butter and prune when he gets clogged up, peanut butter and carrot, and peanut butter and steak for dinner one night!

    Ohhh beautystar sounds mmmm yuck, haha, its surprising what kids will eat, all of those options sound fowl to me, haha, but if he loves it woo hoo, good on you for getting some goodness in with it 🙂

  • 13 yrs ago

    We don’t have any allergies that run in our family so what i did at first (when he was about 9 or 10 months old) was get a small blob of peanut butter and put it into the hole of a fruit loop as they were one of the only foods he ate back then, to test whether he would react. Someone else told me to rub it on their hand, if they dont break out in a rash then try it as a food. I think he started eating whole peanut butter sandwichs around 11-12 months. He is the youngest in my mothers group so i used to start doing things when the other mothers were trying things forgetting that he is actually a month or so younger than some of the other bubs. He still has a peanut butter sandwich for breakfast every day with some other ingredient smuggled into it – his favourite is cream cheese peanut butter and egg. Can’t get him to touch egg when it is on its own but apparently its delicious on a peanut butter sandwich! I have also done peanut butter and prune when he gets clogged up, peanut butter and carrot, and peanut butter and steak for dinner one night!

    Ohhh beautystar sounds mmmm yuck, haha, its surprising what kids will eat, all of those options sound fowl to me, haha, but if he loves it woo hoo, good on you for getting some goodness in with it 🙂

  • 13 yrs ago

    We don’t have any allergies that run in our family so what i did at first (when he was about 9 or 10 months old) was get a small blob of peanut butter and put it into the hole of a fruit loop as they were one of the only foods he ate back then, to test whether he would react. Someone else told me to rub it on their hand, if they dont break out in a rash then try it as a food. I think he started eating whole peanut butter sandwichs around 11-12 months. He is the youngest in my mothers group so i used to start doing things when the other mothers were trying things forgetting that he is actually a month or so younger than some of the other bubs. He still has a peanut butter sandwich for breakfast every day with some other ingredient smuggled into it – his favourite is cream cheese peanut butter and egg. Can’t get him to touch egg when it is on its own but apparently its delicious on a peanut butter sandwich! I have also done peanut butter and prune when he gets clogged up, peanut butter and carrot, and peanut butter and steak for dinner one night!

  • 13 yrs ago

    I’m having lots of luck with Jack so far ~ happy to eat anything lol !
    Beautystar when did you try the peanut butter sandwhich ? i am keen to try but they make you so scared about nuts these days !
    congrats BO on the arrival of your son ~ lovely news ! and with a four year old as well ~ i’m in awe of you ! ♥

  • 13 yrs, 1 mth ago

    I can relate BS. I have an almost 4 year old that’s still extremely fussy and will only have a toasted cheese sandwich for breakfast and is very limited on what you eats when it comes to snacks.

    Those Bubbub rusks (I think that’s the name) which can in all different flavours are pretty popular which little ones and dissolve in their mouth.

    Suggestions: rice?, yoghurt?, cheese, avocado sushi rolls?, pasta?

    I used to get so stressed about my daughter not eating. I cook our main meals at night and try and encourage her to at least try it. She might surprise herself. She generally refuses to eat something she doesn’t like the look of.

  • 13 yrs, 1 mth ago

    I’m just bumping this thread because we are still having terrible troubles getting isaac to eat. He just has no interest at all in food. Its starting to drive me a bit crazy. I just had his 12 month checkup and they said that i had to cut back on the amount of milk he was drinking and that should cause he to get more interested in food, which i have now done but it has had no effect on his eating. He was drinking nearly a litre of milk a day – so way too much, he is now drinking maybe 400ml but still won’t eat.

    He has a peanut butter sandwich for breakfast everyday (he usually eats about half). I was told to give him more variety each day but he refuses to eat anything else. Lunch and dinner always end up being a couple of grapes and a few slices of watermelon. Sometimes he might eat some cheese and bacon roll or chicken fingers but more often he just chucks them on the ground. He still refuses to let anyone feed him so that rules out anything on a spoon. He also wont eat anything that feels slimy – so egg, pasta, cheese…pretty much everything.

    I had some success with home made pizzas but lately he has just been chucking them away.

    Has anyone else had a super fussy toddler and if so what did you do? Should i give in and just feed him peanut butter sandwiches for all meals so at least something is in his belly…or keep offering him different things knowing that he wont eat anything? When he was 5 1/2 months old he was 9.5kgs. He is now nearly 13 months and is 10.4 – so has put on about 900g in 7 months.

  • 13 yrs, 4 mths ago

    My 1yr old loves sultana’s! Not really a meal but great for snacks. Espeically when your still cooking dinner.
    * Sultana’s
    *Cheese [cut into strips]
    * Sandwiches [cut into strips]

    The problem i have with my son while feeding, he tends to put to much food in his month and gag’s/chokes, i still dont know how to stop this. i always just have to put pieces of food in front of him one at a time.

    I’m not sure whether you can stop him from doing this but eventually he will stop choking. Isaac was/is the same – especially with watermelon. I give it to him in fingers and he just keeps stuffing it in but now he is getting really good at pushing it around his mouth so rarely gags/chokes, but initially he would choke on every mouthful yet stuff just as much in for the next mouthful!

  • 13 yrs, 4 mths ago

    My 1yr old loves sultana’s! Not really a meal but great for snacks. Espeically when your still cooking dinner.
    * Sultana’s
    *Cheese [cut into strips]
    * Sandwiches [cut into strips]

    The problem i have with my son while feeding, he tends to put to much food in his month and gag’s/chokes, i still dont know how to stop this. i always just have to put pieces of food in front of him one at a time.

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