10 Awesome Finger Foods

Here’s a list of finger food favorites:

• Cheerios

• Toasted bread or bagels (spread with vegetable puree for extra vitamins), rice cakes or crackers broken into small pieces

• Small chunks of fruit such as banana, mango, plum, pear, peach, cantaloupe, or seedless watermelon

• Small cubes of tofu

• Well-cooked pasta spirals, cut into pieces

• Small chunks of cheese (although I give my baby an entire string cheese – he loves it for his teething gums)

• Chopped hard-boiled or scrambled egg

• Cut-up raisins, softened dried apricots, or stewed prunes

• Small pieces of well-cooked vegetables, like carrots, peas, squash, zucchini, potato, or sweet potato

• Small well-cooked broccoli or cauliflower “trees”

• Pea-size pieces of cooked chicken or other soft meat (deli slices)

• Beans with soft skins like lentils, split peas, pintos, black beans