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Showing posts with label finger foods for baby. Show all posts
Showing posts with label finger foods for baby. Show all posts

Monday, January 2, 2012

Baby Finger Foods

Jaxon loves to feed himself. He will try almost anything he can lift to his mouth, but he does best with things that are not mushy. He is very texture sensitive. For example, though he loves bananas, mangoes, and avocados, he only likes to eat them pureed. He does not like it when I give him pieces of them to pick up and he does not eat them when I just mash them with a spoon. 


He likes some of the Gerber snacks: Little Crunchies (they are like baby cheese puffs without the disgusting orange coloring!) and Fruit & Veggie Melts in the tropical flavor. He used to like the Gerber puffs, but I think he has decided he doesn't like them anymore because he just dumps them on the floor now. He also likes animal crackers. I keep the Little Crunchies and the animal crackers in the diaper bag, because they are very convenient snacks to have on hand. 


At home, he loves to eat: 
turkey  
chicken   
cheese  (small cubes)
black beans  
green beans
peas (he likes these cold! I just run some cold water over the frozen peas so they're not too hard! Great for teething babies!) 
cooked carrots
cooked pasta
kiwi
grapes (peeled and quartered)


With my baby food maker being broken right now (still waiting on a credit to come from Amazon so I can replace it), I can't make him pureed versions of his favorite foods and I feel like I'm running out of things to serve him.  


What finger foods do you serve your baby or toddler?