Are you wondering what finger foods you could provide your toddler? maybe you want to start weaning your toddler off of milk and onto solid foods.

Fruit and Vegetables
The best thing you can do for your toddler is provide them with as much fruit and vegetables as possible. You can offer raw fruit such as apple, pear, melon or banana. Cut these fruit up into hand ‘batons’ (Stick shapes) so your toddler can easily pick them up.

Offer small fruit such as grapes, blueberries, blackberries, strawberries raspberries whole.

Cut vegetables such as carrots, broccoli, sweet potato or green beans and boil them just enough to soften them. You could provide these with tasty dips such as yoghurt and mint, Tangy, tomato Salsa or nutritious hummus. You could also try cooking up some Potato and Black Bean Finger Burgers.

Breads
Try to offer your toddler brown breads which are made from wholegrain and stay away from white. White breads are not as nutritious. It is a good idea to encourage your toddler to develop a taste for brown, wholemeal breads before they get older.

Again, you can offer toasted breads in handy baton shapes, with dips as above. Or how about brown toast or pitta with a spread of cream cheese or peanut butter? You could also try a small amount of marmite or grilling cheese on toast with Worcester Sauce for a tangy, alternate treat.

Cereals
Boxed cereals are great for snacking with. Try not to buy the sweetened, over processed cereals and go for the whoegran, natural varieties. You can server tese with milk in the morning or, alternately you can place some dry in a little bowl for your toddler to nibble at.

Cheese
Cheese is a great source of calcium. Don’t be araid of offering cheese as a finger food for your toddler. You should cut cheese into small cubes so as not to encourage your toddler to stuff too much in their mouths as they will have trouble chewing and swallowing. Experiment with different types of cheese and flavours!

Why not try something adventurous like these Egg-Free Apple Pancakes or Chicken and Sage Finger Strips?

They key to feeding children is to offer as wide a range of foods as possible, as wide a range of colours as possible from as wide a range of food types as possible to ensure their palette is well developed and they get all the nutrition they need for a healthy start in life!