What kinda of finger foods can i give my 7mth old?

Question

Now that my son is 7 mths it is a fight for the spoon when i feed him baby food, so i am just wondering what soft foods i can give him to eat by himself in his highchair? He eats rice rusks(baby mum-mums) and i fed him a few of my soggy cerioos and he liked it.. Any ideas?

(p.s he has no teeth)

Answer 1

gerber graduates have diced veggies fruit and meats for growing babies and its inexpensive you can drain it and place it in a small bowl on the highchair it works i have twins that are 17mths  

Answer 2

Let him work on eating the cheerios, by himself and you feeding himself too.  Crackers are also a good beginning food.  Pirate Booty is good it melts almost immediately in the mouth.  Gerber make finger foods that are good to start.  I would even start giving him some steamed carrots, green bean, pasta (not spaghetti) and bread!  Their gums are very strong and can break down the food fairly well.  

Answer 3

chopped bananas, well cooked pasta, well cooked and chopped veggies (peas, carrots, etc.)

Those teething biscuits broke off in chunks and had my son choking (he had no teeth either).

Answer 4

gerber puffs...they dissolve quickly...they pretty much are like mum mums in a smaller form.  Or you can also get one of those safe feeders...I found them in walmart.  Where you can put cut up fruit and veggies and he can chew them through the netting without choking.  And they are great for teething too...just put some frozen fruit in it and it soothes so well.

Answer 5

You can use cheerios (don't have to be soggy- they'll dissolve on their own), saltines, small bits of soft fruit (banana, strawberries, peaches, avocados etc), basically anything that he can mash with his gums.

Answer 6

Pasta, cut up or already in tiny pieces, maybe without any meat. You can pretty much give your son everything you eat, as long as you make sure it's softer, smaller and easy to swallow. We have had my daughter eating food with us since she was about that age and decided to blow everytime we put the baby food in her mouth, lol. I was sick of having to shower 4 times a day, lol. Good luck!