13 Month Old Finger Foods

My best advice is to keep letting her try different things so that you can find more that she will eat. Some of my daughter's favorite things are bread, balogna, nutri-grain or other cereal bars, cheerios, fruit loops, mac & cheese, peas, carrots, green beans. She used to eat spaghettiOs a lot. I would get the ones with meatballs and then use a spoon to mush up the meatballs and mix them back into the soup so that she would get the meat.

As for the corn, I don't think it would be a choking hazard if she has some teeth. My daughter has been eating corn for a while, but I can't remember what age she tried it first.

I have a 3 year old and can relate very well with your situation. Although he did like the normal foods, that was ALL he liked. I read in a magazine that you have to try many times with the same foods before they will grow to like them.. Since I have a little boy who loves to play in the yard, we have different names for like okra (rocks) and cabbage (leaves) and when we sit down to eat he would say ok, let's clean up the yard. My mother thought I was crazy because she asked what would I do if he actually ate rocks and leaves from outside... Honestly, at the moment I didn't think about it because he loves them and brocolli (trees). He's never associated the food on his plate to the actual rocks outside, but who knows, He already knows what can and cannot go in his mouth. Sorry for babbling on but in short.. just be creative..potatoes can be clouds, and corn has never posed a threat to us.. I hope this was helpful. Let me know how it turned out. Oh yeah, stories made up with their new food names and them are a real mommy and me time laugh..

If I tried to feed either of my two children something they didn't like they would choose to go hungry. They are picky eaters also. Our son has always loved pinto beans (they're also loaded w/iron) and they are good for little fingers to pick up. They both love plain pasta of any kind with butter only so this might help with milk/cheese sensitivity. Neither of them liked the consistency of meat until later. You can buy bags of frozen veges. (mixed or individual) and steamed in the microwave is quick and easy. Steamed squash is very quick and healthy (soft too). I wouldn't force them to eat anything they don't like. Most all of the adult kids in my family were picky eaters also. We all lean on the small, slender side and one day some girl-friends were out to lunch and I was leaving half of my plate untouched and one friend's plate was totally clean. We started discussing how or what our parents made us eat as kids and it seemed like the adults who had parents that pushed them to "clean their plate" or eat what was in front of them had a weight problem. Don't worry about them being picky and/or grazing, it might not be so bad for their future health.

Hi there! My little girl is turning a year old this month and I haven't found anything the child doesn't like (oddly enough she'll eat anything from pickles to sweets to vegtables even tasted a lemon once and came back for more!) Some of her favorites that have worked well are the soft asparagus you can get out of the can. They are soft, but she can hold them and eat them whole. Also, they are a little bland so for picky eaters this may work as well.. plus it's healthy. Also green beans or anything like that. I stay away from corn because of the digestion and also the covering... it may be fine but I tend to be a little over careful sometimes. Last night I took slices of carrots and broccoli and put it in a food processor for 2 seconds and it chops it just enough to where she can manage out of a spoon. Good Luck.

i give my little girl any thing i eat. i jsut cut it up really smalll for her. she loves gerber puffs, and the little toddler meals they make(for when i don't have time to cook), corn (off the cobb) green beans, peas, dry cereal, goldfish crackers, raisins, pretty much any fruit, she will even eat chicken or steak if it's cut up small enough. just let her try a variety of things. she will let you know what she likes and doesn't like. and remember, if hse pushes it away once, don't give up. she might like it later on. i wanted to be a picky eater when i was younger, but my grandma wouldn't let me. i had to eat what she fixed or i didn't eat. if you let her dictate the meal her pickiness will get worse. if she's hungry enough, she'll eat what ever you put in front of her. and if you fix something, some one else in the family doesn't like, don't let them say bad stuff about it, because then she definitely won't want to try it.

I teach cooking classes for children and adults at The Watermelon Patch and I highly recommend the book, The Sneaky Chef. Amazing ideas on how to sneak healthy stuff into everyday kids foods. Mixing baby food with spaghetti-os and such. Also some homemade puree ideas. Today, I fixed grilled cheese sandwiches but smoothed on some pureed white beans with the cheese. Last week, I made brownies with spinach and blueberries and you could not even taste it. You can preview a few recipes at www.sneakychef.com.

Now, that said, I ALWAYS put stuff in front of my 12 month old and 3 year old even if I don't think they will eat it. You just never know... All my students are VERY picky eaters. Some ven have texture issues. But, a two year old in my class ate a strawberry this week and a few weeks ago, a child ate a carrot. Both parents were floored! Just keep trying and focus on tasting. If they don't like it, they can spit it out. Act like it is no big deal but keep putting it in front of them.

I have a 14 month old and a 3 year old, here is what I give the 14 month old. For Snacks we do bananas, grapes cut in half, mandarin oranges from a can, pineapple, peaches and pears from a can, plain pasta or maybe put a little spray butter on it. Sometimes I'll make pasta salad and give them that. We do nutrigrain bars, plain waffles (the frozen kind), cinnimon raisin bread, cheerios, kix, life, & honey comb cereals for a snack on the way to daycare before they eat their breakfast. Lunch we have hot dogs diced, hamburger cut up, lunch meat (ham & turkey) sometimes, a sandwich, fish sticks, chicken nuggets (if I give her dip she seems to do well with meat). I take veggies out of a can and give to her, to try and get some veggies in her although she prefers fruit. we do all kinds of crackers, graham crackers, goldfish, club etc. I also do sanwich roll-ups....put meat and cheese on a tortilla roll it up and cut it into smaller pieces easier for her to hold.

They say you have to offer a food up to 22 times before you can expect the kids to like it. Be persistant and be prepared to throw away some barely touched food. To offer a variety of foods buy frozen ones and microwave small portions of several options. Have some you know she likes and some she doesn't. Also, it's o.k. to season them a little. My son, oddly, loves red pepper on his brocolli. A little shredded cheese is a good way to season "new" vegi's and add a little fat and protein too.

Also, don't worry about her distaste for meat right now. Most kids don't care for it until around 3 years old. They need less protein than you think. Milk, yogurt, and cheese offers plenty of calcium and protein. Besides, chicken nuggest are junk food anyway. Kids have to be trained to like junkfood because they are born to prefer the natural stuff.