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Looking for good ideas for a new eater!

My son, who is now 10 months old, is really getting into the finger foods.  Any suggestions on what to make?  I find myself giving him canned everything (green beans, peaches, pears) and I feel like there could be more to what I can do!

7/14/2009 3:56 PM
6 Replies to Looking for good ideas for a new eater!

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7/14/2009 4:07 PM

My daughter who just turned 82 months love cheetos puffs. I also used to mix sour cream in with re-fried beans and she loved it. The parents choice "puffs" were also some of her favorites.

7/14/2009 6:51 PM

Happycook6


My grandbabies LOVED to eat things like dried cranberries, raisins, banana pieces (fresh) and my husband would cook up these yummy little salmon patties with some veggies tucked inside, just their size, of course they didn't know it was fish, and would eat them cold even. Now that they are older, they won't touch any salmon, it stinks they say hehe. We live in Alaska, so fresh fruits and veggies are very expensive, so we would feed them canned beans, carrots etc. But the favorite thing was and still is, Devilled Eggs.


Maybe because I let them fill the holes with a pastry bag, and they eat them as fast as they fill em. We don't have any fast food places here, so most kids in our town eat REAL food, unless we go to the big city of Anchorage, which is 6 hours away.


Hope I have helped a bit, and good luck with your precious baby.


 

7/14/2009 10:48 PM

Nanapapa44:


Deviled Eggs are a great idea for him.  I bet you have to get creative being so far from a big city, but that is definitely good that they always eat REAL food!  Your idea of salmon patties made me think of little corn cakes that I could make as well (like crab cakes, but corn).  Thanks for the ideas, I really appreciate!  Seems like it would be so easy....but when I'm at the grocery store I find myself wandering around having a hard time coming up with these things!

7/15/2009 12:52 PM

Hi happycook6!


Just wanted to say one thing, "What adorable kids, you have!"Smile You must be very proud.


chicagosinger

7/24/2009 9:19 PM

hi, I would give him anything that you eat. That can be cut up or picked up with his fingers. my granddaughter loved spaghetti.

8/11/2009 10:08 PM

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