Chicken as a finger food?

My boys are 9.5 mos, and they are doing well with soft finger foods - bananas, avocado, ground beef, puffs, cheerios, etc. They have had chicken out of a jar (sweet potatoes and chicken), and I just baked chicken breasts with apples. My one DS loves finger foods, and is fighting being fed from a spoon. So what do you think about cutting up the tender well cooked chicken as a finger food? It just seems so stringy, like he would gag or choke on it. When did you introduce chicken as a finger food?

While we are at it, anyone who makes your own baby food, did you use the food processor or like a baby food grinder to prepare chicken, which had better results?

TIA!

 

I do not have any advice for the finger foods, but I make my own. I cooked all chicken. Packaged in 3oz servings and froze them. When I need one, I thaw it and ground it up by the electric food processor (tiny one) or my hand crank. I add the chicken to either sweet potato, white potato or beans and they eat it up.

Jenn

 

I don't have any advice for homemade baby foods. However for the chicken, my kids did not like meat purees, DH and I would cut the chicken into tiny little pieces for them to pick up and eat chew.

 

We have always cut chicken into pieces. We either grilled it or bought a rotisserie chicken. We never tried pureed meats.

 

My kids would never eat pureed meat of any kind, but tiny little pieces that they could pick up themselves worked well.

 

They loved it! I used the little food mill (kinda hard to crank with chicken), then switched to the food processor once they showed us that they liked the new food. I baked 2 chicken breasts with 5 apples quartered and peeled, then pulled the chicken off the bone and ran it and the apples through the food processor. Jenn, I then used your suggestion and mixed it with some sweet potato and they gobbled it up! Yummmm.... once I got over the idea of purreed meats and had a bite myself, it was pretty good! :rotflmbo: