Cauliflower Bites – finger food for toddlers

Heidi Gough is Mamacooks and her blog is oozing with deliciousness which is why she’s on the BiB Food shortlist. Today she’s sharing with us one of her favourite toddler finger foods and actually they look scrummy, don’t mind if I do ..

It can be difficult to consistently get vegetables into children.  All kids at some point decide to exert a bit of control over Mummy and Daddy and decide to point blank refuse.  So at some point on our weaning journey I started to include an insurance policy of hidden vegetables.  I always advocate continuing to offer vegetables in their natural form but it can be a great way to broaden your child’s diet (without them noticing!)  In my time I’ve included vegetables in meatloaf, scones, muffins, quiches and even made parsnip cake.

This would be a great recipe for those of you following Baby Led Weaning techniques but even if you’re not it’s a good idea to introduce finger foods alongside mashed and pureed foods to help speech development.

Do you have any great finger food recipes you and your child love to eat?

Mamacook, aka Heidi feels honoured to have been shortlisted in the ‘Food’ category of the 2013 BiBs.  She works in food safety and always believes in feeding her little boy ‘proper’ food.  He’s a pretty adventurous toddler; some of his favourite foods are Stilton and Mussels.  Like all kids he has his moments of rejecting foods because of texture, taste, shape, colour, moon phase…

Heidi has got pretty good at coming up with innovative low sugar and low salt recipes with the occasional hidden vegetable to make sure her little man doesn’t live on cheese alone.