INSPIRATION: Homemade Finger Food Ideas

So, you want some homemade finger food ideas? If it’s new and inspiring baby and toddler finger food recipes you need, then you’ve come to the right place.

We recently asked our fabulous One Handed Cooks community on Facebook for inspiration << join us today.

“What’s your baby or toddler’s favourite homemade finger food?”

100+ Finger Food Ideas 

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• Meatballs – baked meatballs, power meatballs, pork & fennel, chicken & quinoa, chicken and halloumi 
• Tofu balls
• Sweet balls – peanut butter balls, apricot muesli balls, pear and macadamia balls 
• Coconut macaroons 
• Rissoles – lamb, chicken & halloumi, vegetable rice cakes, sweet potato, carrot & apple, tuna and vegetable
• Chopped up fruit, or served on skewers
• Fritters – pick n mix fritters, tuna melt fritters, kale and corn fritters, corn fritters 
• Muffins
• Boiled eggs
• Biscuits 
• Frozen snacks – Frozen yoghurt pops, watermelon icy poles, grape skewers 
• Chips – Zucchini chips, apple chips, strawberry chips 
• Nuggets – Homemade chicken nuggets, Quinoa, Chicken & Broccoli Nugget, Chicken and Cannellini Bean Nuggets
• Roast vegetable tarts 
• Sausage rolls – Vegetable ‘sausage’ rolls, eggplant and chicken sausage rolls
• Pizza – pitta pizza, pizza rounds, mini puff pizza, spelt pizza  
• Apricot Chicken Balls with Cornflake Coconut Crumb
• Chicken Schnitzel Fingers 
• Popcorn Chicken
• Shredded roast chicken
• Banana toast 
• Pancakes – banana, fluffy blueberry, savoury 
• Roly Poly Pork balls 
• Roast chickpeas 
• Quiche and things – Yoghurt and broccoli quiche, rice frittata, tomato feta frittata, cheesy rice slice, zucchini slice
• Fish fingers 
• Pies – Chicken and Mushroom Pies, Bread pies, Turkey pies, Vegetable pie, Fish pie 
• Baked chicken and veggie patties coated in yoghurt and breadcrumbs
• Fries/chippies – Sweet potato fries, potato fries 
• Pasta muffins, tuna muffins, lentil muffins 
• Muesli bars – Chew me oat bars, Chia mini chews, Fruit and nut muesli bars
• Frittata muffins
• Risotto balls – pumpkin, tomato, saffron spiced

FIRST FINGER FOOD IDEAS

• Steamed soft vegetables: pumpkin, sweet potato, carrot, broccoli, cauliflower
• Soft, ripe fruits: pear, banana, strawberries, blueberries
• Avocado
• Toast fingers
• Soft, boiled small pasta e.g. penne pasta
• Crustless sandwiches with smooth, soft fillings: avocado, cream cheese, hummus
• Peeled cucumber sticks
• Cheese sticks or slices
• Rice rusks and mini rice cakes

Note: the current Infant Feeding Guidelines recommend foods with a high risk of choking such as whole nuts, seeds, raw carrot, celery sticks and chunks of apple should be avoided for the first 3 years as their size and/or consistency increases the risk of choking.  It is also advisable to always supervise your children while they are eating to prevent choking. 

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The importance of finger foods

Spoon refusal

10 great finger foods for fussy eaters

The tasting plate

Harry’s favourite finger foods  

Playing with food 

Getting messy with food 

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