I just found a bunch of old pics and I couldn’t help but share…meal ideas for little fingers?
Home-made dehydrated crackers with home-made nectarine jam + edamame
Gwyneth’s baked tofu + black beans + avo and quinoa bowl
Sun butter waffles + pear
Rice + chicken and green beans
Lettuce cups with pulled pork + rice bowl
Mashed potatoes + gravy
Times two
Pot roast + potatoes + carrots
Pumpkin + rice bowl
Bread + jam + pepitas + veggies
Chickpeas + corn + potatoes + avo
Fried zucchini
Eggs + blueberries + zucchini
Bacon + mushrooms + bell peppers
Pancakes + grapes
With a 🙂
I notice your kids eat a lot of plain beans…how did you get them to like them!? Did they like them right away? I keep giving G beans for finger foods on her tray, and she keeps not eating them or spitting them out. She likes hummus (homemade with no salt and very mild spices) and I put white beans in her smoothies, and she will eat red lentil soup that I make, but I can’t seem to get her to eat a pinto bean or black bean or chickpea straight up. I even made a “chili” (in quotes because it is hardly chili with the barely detectable amount of chili powder I used) with black beans and sweet potatoes, and she won’t eat it. I really want her to like beans because they are such a quick and easy form of protein for her!
I know V loved white beans from the second I put them on her tray, but I don’t think P took to them as quickly. He has always liked black beans and chickpeas though…it may just take time. I will definitely admit that sneaking things in smoothies and pouches in small and then increasingly larger amounts seemed to help their palates get comfortable with it. I did that with broccoli and lentils I think? My only advice would be keep trying and trying again and again. It will click eventually. And try different ways (as different as you can for a baby). P prefers roasted chickpeas to broiled ones by a landslide. You could try “meatballs” with them when she’s ready. Or baking them into muffins (black bean brownies style!). I’ve even put red lentils in oats.
Thank you! I hadn’t thought of baking them into muffins–I will totally try that! I think she will like it 🙂
Elise … do you make the same food for both P and V? I would assume that you have tested all of the possible food allergies for V as P has so many… but is it easier to just make one meal for both? I guess the benefit of making P a separate meal would be the cost factor as the allergy free food can be very expensive I assume. 🙂
I make the same thing for them both. I used to give her cheese every once in a while, but it got to be annoying because then her plate was contaminated so I couldn’t combine things again that didn’t get finished and I was always worried about cleaning her well enough so she wouldn’t touch things with allergens that he would too. And now that they are both old enough to check out each others’ plates, I don’t want to deal with them whining about what he/she has. Easier to just keep everything even across the board.