Finger foods

RanchersWife

What finger foods do you guys recommend?  My LO is missing some back teeth so she needs food she can chew with her front teeth. Soft food is good but it’s messy when she gives up on using her fork. The moist and slightly sweet food like sesame chicken and noodles is a favorite. 

Maybe homemade, baked French fries (lower in salt).

Cooked carrot pennies,

Hamburger sliders

Ideas? 

Rescue mom

If you use any prepared/frozen foods, there’s lots at our grocery and Costco, classified as “appetizers” that are good finger food. Maybe only a couple bites, but you just put more out. Our go-tos are mini-quiches, and mini egg/spring rolls. There’s also mini-quesadillas and Tostitos, etc. Those are just our “regulars.”

zauberflote

I second Costco! MIL loved those mini-quiches. 

Cubed softer cheese, apple slices, pear slices, mandarin oranges, tiny tomatoes, lightly steamed sweet pepper slices, banana, those little balls of ice cream (don't know the name), sandwich "soldiers", snack crackers of the type that turn to mush in your mouth...

RanchersWife

Thanks for the ideas. She likes Schwan’s meatballs. She just ate all of the sweet potato “puffs.” They are like tater tots but mushy inside the crisp outside. 

Scary thing.  She made herself a glass of milk and after she downed it I saw a handful of coins in the bottom of the glass. My heart is still pounding. She’s didn’t like my reaction. I didn’t stay calm. I snatched the glass away before the coins slid into her mouth!! 

RanchersWife

Beets with honey were very much enjoyed. Beets are not finger food!!!

zauberflote

Beets may not be finger food but they are very nutritious lol! 

I thought of another one-- Vienna sausages. These were so popular in my family growing up that we came to expect a can in our Christmas stockings! Also, you know those baked veggie sticks that are mostly potato flour, with a little spinach or carrot thrown in? The right brand of those will melt in your mouth. 

OnTheTCBay

I'm a huge fan of poutine, and if you use extra gravy, chewing is mostly an option. This is a really good, simple recipe:

https://www.seasonsandsuppers.ca/authentic-canadian-poutine-recipe/

Stuck in the middle

I have eaten Cheerios dry, like popcorn, all my adult life.  One at a time in front of the TV.  Yum!  And the ones I drop are easy to sweep up.

Stuck in the middle

Since she likes sweet foods, and likes carrots, how about sweet potato "fries"?  Peel them and cut them into sticks and microwave them just a little, so they are soft enough to eat yet crisp enough to handle.

David J

We have just added fish sticks to our menu. Easy to pick up and bite.

PMJ

Excellent suggestions Rescuemom.