Has anyone any advice on baby,s finger foods?what are the best?

My son is nearly 8 months old and very recently went onto lumpy baby food,so i thought i'd better work out when and what to start on finger foods!Has anyone any advice on baby,s finger foods?what are the best?
Make sure anything you give him is soft, easy to swallow, and breaks down into small pieces that can't possibly choke him. Good choices for you baby's first finger foods can include: baby crackers, pieces of bread, plain wafer type cookies, dry cereals like cheerios,cut and well cooked vegetable pieces, like green beans, potatoes, or peas, pieces of soft ripe fruits (bananas, etc.), small pieces of cheese, cooked pasta, small pieces of well cooked meats. Even if you think your baby is ready for finger foods, be sure to always supervise your child when he is eating them in case he does choke.Foods to avoid include those that are hard or slippery, and those that don't easily break down into small pieces, which are a choking hazard.Has anyone any advice on baby,s finger foods?what are the best?
the organix range is really good


its all organic so you know its good you can buy from asda or tesco if in uk probably more but that's were i shop.


The carrot stick crisps are great there like huge wotsits


and my daughter loves them. you can get apple rice cakes


and biscuits galore.


have fun


blondie
-The tri color pastas cut into pieces with some butter and little sauce (cooked well done)





-seedless grapes, cut into 6 pieces





-pieces of bananas





-cheerios (they melt in their mouth)





-small chunks of cheese (cheddar or american or mozzerealla)





-shredded peices of meat (whatever you are having for dinner)





-cubed baked sweet potato or white potato





My daughter at 6 months was having alot more than that but I know most moms are not as brave to give their babies what I did. But I gave her fries, big chunks of chewy bread, chicken leg bone with a little meat stuck to it, Dora yogurt, a slice of cantalope with the rind, and much much more, just use your judgment and don't limit their diet.
Try the fruit and veggie puffs. They will melt in his mouth. Here is the website


http://www.gerber.com/prodcat?catid=524
You can give him little bits of what you eat, within reason! A stick of cooked carrot (not too cooked, it'll fall apart!), a finger of bread, a little soft fruit - banana is always a favourite, ripe but not overly so otherwise it just gets squishy.





Watch your lil 'un to see what he likes and can cope with. Obviously never leave him unattended while he is eating, just in case. It will probably take him a while to master the art well enough for him to eat any quantity of anything, but he'll enjoy exploring the texture, squashing it between his fingers, dropping it over the side of the highchair... Just start with soft thing that don't need to be chewed much, just slobbered on(!), and give what you think he can cope with - watch and learn. Never mind the mess!!!
Biscuits and crackers (with plenty of juice)


Carrots and other vegetables (don't make them too soft or they fall apart).


Chicken/other meats if he's got some teeth
I wouldn't start finger foods for a little while but when you do, try little pieces of bananas, cereal puffs (cheerios) or the Gerber snack star-shaped cereals (they dissolve in the baby's mouth), anything really mushy that the baby can pick up and doesn't have to chew. The saliva should be able to break it down for them. Good luck!
Cow %26amp; Gate baby biscuits are great for first finger foods as there easy for your baby to eat, slices of cheese are good too
My son loves the gerber graduates puffs and graham crackers
sticks of cheese are good for gums and a good sorce of calcium , if he pulls his face try rusk bicuits and carrot sticks but you will have to stay near him just incase he choks
My son loves the Veggie or fruit puffs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Your baby is at a good age to start finger food now, our baby started at 7 months without teeth and had no problems at all, just place some buttered bread or toast cut into small squares and let him play with them. Also cheese cubes, baby crisps (from boots or asda) baby biscuits (designed to dissolve quicker) these are great to start with then once your confident you can give them everything you have chopped into small bits.
my kids loved the gerbers dried fruit it is filled with vitiams and it disolves really well to great thing to start with to avoid choking the banna and strawberry's is the best I love myself there addictive. and even Gerber cookie wheels tell they get use to the whole eating lumpy stuff I started with this because it is less of a choking hazard to. hope my advice helps out.
toast, banana, biscuits
try the gerber line of finger foods, sandwich cookies, cheerios, and crackers to name a few
My 8 month old eats diced cooked veggies(carrots, zucchini, sweet potato), cut up banana, and the Gerber Sweet Potato puffs. We will also peel a peach or nectarine and let him hold that and munch away on it.
try those fruit puffs, my son loved those. they are great finger foods. here some other ideas, Cherrios, mash potatoes, soft cooked carrots- chopped them up so he wont choke. give him some of your food that you eat at times and make sure is chopped and soft enough for him to eat. We have this food grinder and give him what we eat and he loved eating our foods with us.
Every baby is different. At 8 months old, my daughter had been eating Gerber fruit/veggie puffs and wagon wheels for about a month. They dissolve quicker than Cheerios. After doing that for roughly a month we began giving her tiny pieces of ripened fruit like banannas, peaches and apricots.


Try that and see how he reacts. At about 10 months, he shoud be able to handle little bites of food with ease.





Rule of thumb: If you can mash it against the roof of your mouth with your tounge, your baby can handle it starting at about 9 months old.
My daughter loved the fruit puffs from Gerber. Just hit the baby idle, you will find a nice selection of graduate foods. The biter biscuits were good, but very messy. We use cheerios. Also any soft food. Start slowly. As your baby masters this, introduce other fruits and veggies.
go to the infant food aile i know Target carries the gerber graduates or cherros are a fav for all babies i think