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Transition to finger foods

CoastieWife88
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At what age should babies be off of liquid or spoon fed baby food? I mean some of it obviously has to be with a spoon like yogurt, applesauce and what not, but as far as purees go. My son is doing pretty good with finger foods and I make all his normal baby food. Should I just make a few liquidy foods like applesauce and maybe like mashed sweet potatoes that can be frozen. Do think this is premature of me to do this? He'll be 1 december 23rd so he's 10.5 months actual right now. Any good ideas on finger foods? I've been doing mostly bready items like pizza, toasted bread with cheese, rice, puffs, going to try canned fruit, any other ideas would be great! Thanks!

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mygirlsmom

Check out the blog I started www.preemierecipes.blogspot.com. Lots of ideas on table foods.

Our girls really loved self-feeding, so we began offering lots of table foods around 9 months actual. By 11 months actual, they ate 90% of their foods as table foods, and by one year, that was all they ate. I also think it was a great way to help with their pincher grasp and fine motor skills, although they still have some delays in this area. So I would say, if he's doing well with table foods, keep offering more and more. Grilled cheese sandwiches, meat loaf, quesadillas, soft fruit cut up, etc. I don't think it's premature at all, as long as he's still getting lots of formula and eating well, then keep offering more! Have fun with it - remember, you'll throw a lot away that he doesn't like, but that's just part of it. By 15 months or so, you should have a pretty good idea of his favorites, to make your life easier!

wall-e_fans_mom

Try experimenting with the consistency of your liquidy foods, make your mashed potatoes lumpier, or instead of mashing just boil them and cut them up into pieces and see if he's capable of gumming them down or spits it out. But if you're doing ok with bread and stuff I don't see any reason he wouldn't be ok.
One thing that we do here in Japan is rice balls. mainly cook up some rice and form it into a ball or triangle shape by hand. You can make one big hand held size one or make several small bite sized ones as well. Sticky Japanese style rice works best for these though as typical amercan rice will most likely just crumble rather than stay in ball form. It's nice easy way for little guys to eat rice ;)

Henrysmom

Thanks wall-e_fans_mom for the rice ball idea! My son won't eat any purees or anything off a spoon but he loves solids and self feeding! We make nut balls (crushed macadamia nuts mixed w/ vegan butter and sugar) and he loves them! Rice balls are an excellent idea! I'll have to get some and try it!

wall-e_fans_mom

I hope he likes them :) my son right now likes to take his rice ball and go hang out on the sofa and chow down, i just have to clean up all the stray rice bits afterwards :) also I don't know if you can get them where you are but we have oat and millet packets you can add to your rice to give some extra nutrition. We add these to our rice and my son has a rice ball for breakfast every morning :)

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