Finger foods and healthy snacks after weaning

From 7 months of age, offer your baby finger foods.

Vegetables and fruit finger foods

• Peeled cucumber.
• Small, soft pieces of peeled fruit like ripe pear, banana, peach, nectarine, mango, melon, kiwi.
• Soft cooked sticks of vegetables like carrot, parsnip, green beans, turnip.
• Soft cooked baby sweet-corn, mange-tout or sugar-snap peas.
• Soft cooked florets of cauliflower and broccoli.
• Soft cooked slices of pumpkin or butternut squash.

Bread and pasta finger foods

• Fingers of toast.
• 3 to 4 well-cooked pasta shapes like bow ties or shells.
• Bread stick with hummus.
• A small piece of naan or pitta bread with hummus or smooth peanut butter.
• Plain rice cake or unsalted crackers.
• 1 small pancake.
• Soft roasted or sticks of potato or sweet potato.

Cheese finger foods

• Stick of firm cheese like cheddar.

Meat, poultry and egg finger foods

• Strips of freshly-cooked tender meat or chicken with skins removed.
• Slices of omelette.

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