In my opinion you should start introducing finger foods few weeks after starting to wean your baby.
On the very beginning whatever you give should be very soft :
– cooked carrot sticks
– toast
– very small baby corn crisps (one from 6months)
– Cooked Apple cut in to sticks or Banana
– cooked sweet potato cut in to stripes
– rice cakes (one from 6months)
Once you established good feeding routine at 7months you should be introducing texture to your baby food and so much more finger food.
I introduced texture to Chloes food by adding very small baby pasta or couscous to all of her meals. I would cook her normal meal, make it in to a poore and then add the texture. Also adding meat makes the food more textured when blended. For a desert I would start chopping fruits in to a very small squares and give it to Chloe instead of blended fruits. Good ideas when starting is to add some cooked apple cut in to a tiny squares in to a yogurt, or add some cut fruits in to a poored ones – banana is ideal.
From 7 months you can start giving so much more finger foods (I started earlier as Chloe was a perfect eater and we started weaning much earlier)
– Corn snacks (very big selection)
– Biscuits (baby ones, remember that they are high in sugar)
– Cooked vegetables – pretty much all of them- perfect one being broccoli, carrot, cauliflower.
– pancakes with banana or cooked apple are a perfect snack.
– sliced soft fruits : Bannana, Peach, Kiwi, Strawberry
– cucumber
From 8 months I became brave enough to introduce smaller vegetables and fruits like
– sweetcorn
– peas
– blueberries
And letting Chloe feed herself, which also helps with developing motor skills of picking small objects and putting them in to a mouth.
I also started giving her a bigger variety of fruits and vegetables :
– Pineapples
– Mango
– Melon
– Pepper
– courgette (cooked)
– breadsticks
NEW YUMMY MUMMY 