Shredded Cheese makes a Great Baby Finger Food!

Feb 18, 2009 Finger Foods, Visitor Tips

Christy sent us the following about cheese for a finger food:

Hi! I just wanted to suggest that I have shredded cheese and I let my 8 month pick it up piece by piece, and he loves it!!!

We LOVE this idea; it keeps the kiddos busy and also helps to develop that pincher grasp. Take it one step further; let your cheese grater be your top finger food tool! You can grate any food using the cheese grater. Well ok, not any food. Ripe peaches for example, do NOT grate well at all

The cheese grater is wonderful for grating fruits and veggies for baby finger foods. Peel a nicely ripened apple and then grate it using the small slots. This produces small and thin apple shavings that are easily gummed.

Use the fine slots to grate a peeled cooked carrot and you have itty bitty flakes of carrot that are also very “gum-able”! My babies loved these bits of grated foods!

Of course, you can also use the cheese grater to grate cheeses for baby finger foods.

And one more use of the cheese grater, grate soft cooked meats like chicken and beef!

Tags: cheese, finger food

Carrot Pasta – A Unique Baby Food Recipe

Dec 30, 2008 Fruits and Veggies, New Baby Food Recipes, Visitor Tips

We are happy to be able to post this unique recipe from a visitor.  Sarah sent this in yesterday and we thought it was very clever!  I bet it makes a very colorful noodle dish too!

I love your site – it has been a huge help for me and my choosy eater. I wanted to share a recipie with you! My son (18 months) is dairy and egg allergic, so I created this vegan version of “Mac and Cheese” that he has been eating since he was 10 or 12 months.

Carrot pasta:
1 cup carrot juice
~1.5 cup dried pasta shapes (I use the Smat Taste Elbows by Ronzoni because it has added calcium)

Boil the carrot juice and a splash of water in a small sauce pan. Add just enough pasta so they are just covered by the carrot juice. Boil on med-low heat until all of the carrot juice is absorbed by the pasta. I freeze extra single-portions in an ice cube tray for later.

Tags: carrots, New Baby Food Recipes

Using a Sippy Cup – Don’t Bother….

Feb 18, 2008 Friendly Baby Food Advice, Visitor Tips

We wanted to share a tip from a visitor who read our “transtion to sippy cups” page.

Visitor Tip As an occupational therapist who works with babies 0-3, I find that sipper cups are “glorified bottles.” I’ve had great success teaching children as young as 4-6 months of age to drink from straws- it’s good for oral-motor development, too! - Janis submitted 18 February 2007