Here are some Baby Led Weaning recipes for you to try when starting the Baby Led Weaning Process. These are recipes for finger foods ideal for starting baby led weaning. I hope your baby enjoys them as much as our daughters did. I will post more as soon as I get the time.

Finger Food Recipe – Potato and Black Bean Finger Burgers

This is a simple and delicious baby led weaning recipe for my mum’s Potato and Bean Finger Burgers. These were always my favourite when I were young and both my daughters love them as much as I did. This is actually a modification of my mum’s traditional bean burger recipe, but shaping the mixture into any shape you like, in this case, sausage shapes!

Finger Food Recipe – Egg free. Wholewheat Apple Pancakes with Blueberries

Pancakes are a treat in our house, we don’t wait until Shrove Tuesday to break out the frying pan and cook up delicious pancakes. This is an egg-free pancake recipe so it’s ideal for any babies ready for baby led weaning and they make great finger food when cut into fingers or quarters. I have used blueberries in this recipe – very healthy and nutritious berries – but feel free to use whatever fruit you have available!



Finger Food Recipe – Chicken and Sage Finger Strips

These chicken strips should be the right size for a baby to grip and I would recommend serving them with some carrot batons which have been softened by boiling or, preferably, steaming them for five minutes. This is an egg free recipe as it has been substituted with natural, plain yoghurt.



Finger Food Recipe – Baked Cauliflower Florets with Parmesan

My eldest daughter adored these, they’re easy to make and extremely moreish! Cheese and cauliflower are a match made in heaven and this finger food recipe has been tried and tested through our generations.

If you you havent the time to cook anything special then don’t be scared to try cutting some soft fruit like mango, pear, apple, banana into fingers and offering them to your baby? You can do the same with any begetable and softening them up by steaming or boilding for a few minutes – making sure you let them cool down fully before you give them to your baby, of course!

I found it easier to use the baby-led weaning technique with my two daughers as well as feeding them traditional purees. This ensured they were getting the vitamins and energy they needed from the purees while experimenting with food using the baby led weaning technique.

You can easily try the above recipes, fruit or softened vegetables and putting them through a seive or mill like this Baby Dan Food Mill which comes with it’s own serving spoon. Your baby will interested in the different textures and flavours this provides.

If you are strapped for time then it’s quite a simple process to make more than you need and freeze the rest in handy portioners like these Happy Mummy Baby Cubes Food Portioners or by using an ice cube tray which are handy but not as ideally portioned. These can then be thawed at a later date.

There are much more finger food recipes and baby puree recipes and such-like on this site. Just browse the recipes on the left or search for a particular vitamin or food stuff to get what you want.

Let me know how you get on with these Baby Led Weaning Recipes!