Finger Foods for Toddlers

It has been observed that it’s a great fun for the children and parents to add or introduce the finger foods in the diet of their little children. If any one of you wants to make your children eat healthy and nutritious food then the finger foods can be a best option.

Finger foods make your child independent

remember when the little grown up baby or toddler was a small baby then he or she had to depend on you for every basic needs of life even for feed also. Number of people or parents enjoy that their small baby is dependent on them. But when your little baby grows up and steps into the toddlerhood then his phase of independence also grows. But the most important thing which you need to know is that your toddler can feed himself by the finger foods.

These finger foods can be something really very new and innovative for the toddler, particularly whenever you introduce it to them for the first time. Number of toddlers spends lot of time in looking and examining the finger food than eating it, but researchers say it’s not a problem. Actually the toddlers find every new thing strange and eat it by examining it completely. But above all the chief motive is to make your toddler eat the finger food independently or you can say to make the toddler independent.

While introducing finger foods to toddlers

Whenever you start providing finger food to the toddler, consider the following points:

• Just try to give the one or two types of finger food before increasing the selection. This will help you out in avoiding the number of allergies from finger food.
• Try to choose those foods which are easily available in the market close to your house.
• Always look for the nutritious food so that your loved toddler can get the best health. Always avoid the finger foods or any other food which contain the high concentration of sugar and preservatives.
• Try to choose those foods which wont give arise to the chocking.

Very popular liked finger foods

If your children or toddler have learned the handling of the finger foods then you must make the range of variety broad to him or her. But at the beginning always try to stick to the soft foods or light foods:

The finger foods at the beginning for your toddler

• The first is green beans
• cubed, cooked or sliced apples
• Cut up or chopped bananas
• baked sugary potatoes, cubed
• Cherries ( all time favorite)
• Small or chopped pieces of the soft cheese
• sliced, cubed or Cooked pears
• Soft biscuits of his or her choice

The immediate or easy to serve finger foods for your toddler

Now if your toddler has learned to eat the above foods you can then add few more things in the menu. Basically the number of these foods which we will discuss below needs little bit more chewing.

• carrot sticks in any form that is in cut up form or cooked
• broccoli in steamed form
• Graham crackers for great taste
• Cubed cheese