Finger Food for Dairy Free Gagger!

Caden only has his two bottom teeth so Im always careful about what i give him, but usually things he can suck are good, he LOVES the Little Kids rice cake things, they come in honey flavour, tomato and banana and apple(i think) they kind of just dissolve in his mouth.

Will he eat banana? or maybe a little bit kinda smeared on some bread?



Edited by Sheza

How about tinned fruit? Yes, it is slippery and difficult to pick up - but you could feed him pieces using your fingers (rather than off a spoon) and if you find something he likes he may try to pick it up himself later on? We still sometimes feed Jimmy finger food items from our hands initially - usually when offering something he hasn't tried before. He also doesn't like touching some foods, especially sticky things, and will spend ages trying to shake stuff off his fingers instead of eating .

I thought Nice biscuits have milk in? like most other store bought biscuits?

Anyway, envirokids make a dairy free softish biscuit, there are also organ outback crackers and some called healthy handfuls. They are all organic but also dairy free, lots of organic stuff is dairy free.

Other things you could try are casava crisps (made from casava flour, signature range make them) they just dissolve in the mouth, rice crackers and cakes would be good if he just sucks on them (Spencer had them when he only had a couple of teeth and he just use to suck them to pieces). Just only get plain and check brand, you would be surprised what crap some companies stick in plain crackers.

Have you checked what is in the crumpets? I know Spencer can't have them but not sure if it's cos of dairy or eggs, or perhaps they have preservatives, I know there was some reason why I put them on the banned list.


With some of the drier foods like the cruskits I use to spread some puree on it so soften it up before giving it as finger food so you could try that, might encourage him as well if there is something in particular he likes. Spencer loved pumpkin so I use to spread that on everything.

I was also going to say like Bizzy that it is good to them play with the food as well as eat it, good for their sensory development and it also takes the pressure off eating if you just leave them to it with the food, invariable sooner or later curiosity gets the better of them and it goes in the mouth.

Laurie - i give Catriona those ricecake things - the honey ones she likes (though it took a couple of attempts). They say 'over one year' on the packet, but i gave them to her anyway and she has been fine . . .

I cut up pumpkin, kumara and potato into small bite sized bits and roast them......Joel loves these and he feeds himself easily.

I also make up a mix of mince and sausage meat and chop up very finely mushrooms, brocolli and cauliflower (in food processor or suchlike) and grate on fine grater carrot and pumpkin and mix together (I also add hallf a pkt of bacon and onion soup mix but you don't have to) mix it all together really well (I use my fingers and really squish it together) and make mini meatballs out of it, then freeze them freeflow and keep them in a ziplock bag in the freezer then I have instant meals.

They only take 20mins from frozen to cook and some nights this is all he will eat but at least its full of veges as well. The sausage meat makes the mix really tender and it doesn't get all dry like normal mince meatballs can do.

Even with no food restrictions I still struggle sometimes, but i'm lucky in that he will eat almost anything. My sisters boys can have no additives, preservatives, colours and now are on a low dairy low wheat diet as well, so I know how hard it is with restrictions.