There are some great baby food recipes you can feed your baby but as they start becoming more older they will want foods they can grab with their fingers. Feeding them finger foods is a great way to develop their fine motor skills. Check out some great Finger foods babies can eat without teeth. 

8 Finger Foods Babies Can Eat Without Teeth

One of the most exciting things for a parent is to start introducing new foods to their baby. I remember with my first I couldn’t wait for him to try delicious combinations of baby food. The funnest part was when they began exploring finger foods. Seeing them interact with the foods, the faces, the exploring it’s all pretty amazing. What’s even greater is that it’s an amazing way to really begin building up your baby’s fine motor skills .

Your baby may grab at everything on your plate, but it’s important to follow some guidelines in order to make this a fun experience for all. 

You  might also be wonder which foods are safe to give to your little one or which ones you can give. 

Check out this list of six fantastic finger foods that are great for babies without teeth to eat.

 These foods should require minimal chewing, as your baby may not yet have teeth. 

Great Finger Foods for babies

Eggs

Eggs are a great finger food choice for babies without teeth for multiple reasons. Eggs contain essential nutrients, omega-3 fatty acids, and protein, which means they are quite nutritious for your growing baby. You can prepare the eggs in different ways for your baby, such as boiling them and slicing them, making scrambled eggs, or even preparing an omelet with cheese and spinach.

Bananas

Bananas are an excellent starter food for babies who do not have teeth just yet. Not only are they a fantastic source of vitamin C, but they also assist with digestion and have such great taste. If you are going to give your baby bananas, cut them down to avoid any potential choking hazards.

Avocado Slices

If you cut an avocado, remove the pit, and then slice it down for your little one, you have the perfect soft snack for a baby without teeth. The texture of avocado is so soft and buttery that it practically melts in the mouth. Along with having the perfect texture for a baby to eat, avocados are ideal because they contain plenty of vitamins, including vitamin B5 and vitamin B3. You can serve them as is or lightly bread them and bake them before giving them to your child.

Cubed Baked Sweet Potato

While a sweet potato may initially feel a bit hard, if you bake it in the oven for around 45 minutes at 375 degrees F, it will become completely soft and comfortable for a small child without teeth to chew. If you want to make it even easier to chew and digest, you should peel the potato and dice it down into cubes before baking. Sweet potatoes have a naturally delightful taste to them, so you do not even need to add anything to them before you bake them.

More Finger Foods Babies Can Eat

Beans

Looking for more protein-rich, vegetarian baby finger foods? Try beans. Opt for canned, low-sodium beans for convenience, or soak and cook dry beans yourself to save money (they’ll freeze well too!). When first introducing beans, smash them just a bit between your fingers before serving to baby.

More Great Finger foods for Babies

Toasted Bread

When you want to teach your little one to get the hang of chewing food, toasted bread truly comes in handy. You can choose a whole-grain option that is good for your little one before placing it in the toaster and cooking for a minute or two. Your child will enjoy nibbling and sucking on the toasted bread.

Peaches

When they are ripe enough, peaches are soft and easy to chew. When feeding peaches to a baby with no teeth, you may want to consider peeling the skin and then slicing the peaches down into smaller pieces. There are many benefits associated with eating peaches. The fruit is known to help with heart health while providing antioxidants, nutrients, and vitamins to those who eat them.

There are many finger foods that babies can eat without teeth. Eggs, bananas, avocado slices, sweet potato, toasted bread, and peaches are great options to choose from when you want to introduce your little one to new, safe, and healthy foods.

Cheese

If baby has shown no signs of a dairy allergy, then it’s perfectly safe to introduce soft cubes of cheese as early as 6 months. Opt for small bites of a pasteurized cheese that’s soft but not overly sticky or stinky, like Monterey Jack or cheddar.

It will be very exciting to introduce all these fun foods to your baby. This is such a fun milestone for every parent to go through. It will also be a lot of fun figuring out what foods they enjoy the most as well. This is just one of the many fun milestones you’ll experience the first year of your baby’s life.  These are all great foods for your little one to try.

What foods aren’t good for babies?

Although we went through foods that you can feed your baby without teeth there are a few that you should never feed at this point in their development.  Although some may sound like a good idea it’s important to be careful due to choking hazards. 

Do NOT let him have hot dogs, raw vegetables, nuts, meats, hard candy, or sticky textures such as nut butters that have increased choking risks at this stage. As a matter of fact there are foods I still don’t give my 3 year old because of risk of choking. 

That being said this is will be a fun experience for all. See what foods they like best and what textures they respond to the most positively. Babies are funny and it will be a blast for you all to see them go through this newest milestone. 

Don’t forget to keep giving them breastmilk or formula during this though. The calories that come from both are extremely necessary for them still. 

Looking to step up your food game with your baby? Check out these delicious  Blueberry Banana fritters that are the perfect toddler/ Baby led weaning treat made with only 3 simple ingredients.