Baby Finger Food Recipes

By Najiah

A baby can be introduced to baby finger food by the age of 8-9 months old, but it can be older to certain baby, it all depends on the readiness of the baby to eat such kind of food. Baby finger food can be given to a baby at his/her snack time, normally once to twice a day. Here are some baby finger food recipes:

 Milk Fruity Jelly

Ingredients:

1 sachet of jelly powder

6 table spoons of formula, mix it with 400 ml of water.

100 g of melon

100 g of watermelon

100 g of strawberry

100 g of pineapple

How to make it:

Mix 1 sachet of jelly powder and formula milk, cook it on small fire. Mix all the fruits with blender then add it to the jelly and formula milk just before it boil. Then put it in the jelly mold.

This recipe is for ten molds, and each mold contains more or less 22 kkal of energy, 0.8 g of protein, 0.4 g of fat, and 5.4 g of carbohydrate.

Banana Pudding

Ingredient:

100 g of Cavendish banana, make mush banana.

50 ml of water

1 table spoon of formula milk

1.5 table spoon of gelatin

How to make it:

Mix the milk, water, and gelatin. Cook them on top of boiling water. Lift it up after 5 minute. Then, mix them with mush banana, and put them in molds. It’s better if you have rectangular shape mold, so it’s easier for the baby to hold.

This recipe is for ten molds, and each mold contains more or less 100 kkal of energy, 1.4 g of protein, 0.4 g of fat, and 26 g of carbohydrate.