Klara’s head teacher says it’s time to give her table foods and snacks. Problem is, I don’t know what they are. Does anyone have any ideas? All I could come up with so far are little boiled potatoes and hard-boiled egg yolks.
Normally, she eats vegetable and oatmeal + fruit purees that we make for her.
I think she means something Klara can pick up with her fingers and eat by herself. My daughter at this age loved cheerios, little cubes of cheese, blueberries, and diced apples.
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Yes, exactly, it’s something she can pick up from a plate.
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Can she already eat Тефтели из куриной грудки ?
You mentioned only vegetarian and milk foods in the post.
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No, we don’t do meat yet or anything containing salt. They can’t process salt well just yet.
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Finger food can be almost anything which isn’t big enough for Klara to choke on, you definitely don’t need to buy special products. Cooked veg like carrot sticks and garden peas are good, sprigs of broccoli stuck into a mound of mashed potato like little trees were a hit, all my kids loved broccoli ever after. Any small pieces of fruit like orange, pitted cherries, plums, rasins etc. For protein cooked beans, small cubes of tender meat, chicken or bone free fish…. The world’s her oyster now.. well maybe not oysters quite yet! Oh yes and pasta, there are so many shapes, it’s going to get messy, spaghetti is enormous fun…!
You don’t need to be as very careful as when she was tiny, just introduce things she hasn’t had before one at a time – I’m sure you know this! And don’t worry if there is potato on the carpet, cheese in your hair and and peas up her nose, she’ll get the hang of civilised eating soon enough. In the mean time, enjoy how fast she’s learning about good food! I sound like a grandmother… ah. There’s a reason for that!
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Pasta is a great idea. I’ll try boiled baby carrots today. She still only has two teeth, so it’s got to be something mushy.
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This discussion is making me hungry.
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Never met a kid who doesn’t like pasta! Tiny things like garden peas don’t really need chewing and are fun to chase around the plate. To begin with just let her play with it as well as eating some yourself, she’ll soon enjoy her food as much as you do.
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I hope not quite as much because my love of food is not too healthy. 😆
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She doesn’t need to keep the carbs down at her age, just avoid introducing junk food until you can’t stop her!
I suppose the only other advice I should give you and N is to be relaxed around food, then Klara will too. Nothing worse than mealtime stress about who will and won’t eat what. Small kids don’t starve themselves if there’s food in front of them. I’ll stop being a grandmother now… x
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Yes, absolutely, for now she eats everything except pumpkin puree and mashed potatoes, and it’s crucial not to spoil it with needless drama.
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I have a kid who does’t eat pasta. My youngest is 5 and never have pasta, bread, or cookies passed his lips. It’s not for lack of trying on our part. He just won’t have any of it. He’s a weird kid.
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Saw this:
Slim Pasta won the coveted Product of the Year Award 2016 in the healthy food category through a survey of 11,886 people in UK & ROI conducted by TNS.
http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2016-06-21/food/Slim-Pasta-Awarded-Product-of-the-Year-2016-6736159773
Unfortunately, the Hebrew article including this information was titled “products we wish to see in Israel,” so I can’t try it yet. 😦
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Did she say table foods or finger foods?
Finger foods = small pieces she can manipulate with her pincer grasp, food doubling as a toy for fine motor skills
Table foods = what you and N eat, basically moving from the foods prepared specifically for Klara and toward what the family eats
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My sister did give her 1-year-old borscht and he did love it but I’m not ready yet. Besides, I don’t want to share. 😆
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My kids loved it when I’d strain a few mushy chunks of vegetable out of my vegetable soup and put them on the high-chair tray for them to try. Also, +1 for Cheerios–they’re the standard right of passage for young eaters growing up in the US. The plain ones–the others have too much sugar.
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Scrambled eggs are really good at this age (and are also one of the best things for teaching young ones to use a fork when she is ready for that.) Toast cut into strips and smeared with butter, cream cheese, smashed avocado, other spreadable stuff. Likewise toaster waffles from the freezer section. Homemade meatballs (to avoid too much salt) cut into small pieces. Even without molars she can mash these with her gums. Cubes of tofu either plain or rolled in crushed cheerios and spices for flavor and to make them easier to pick up. Soft fruits – raspberries were a hit with my youngest at that age but are a bit pricey. Cheese. Mine clearly take after their mama because they love cheese!
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Also white fish and scallops.
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