[Monica]

You can try steaming some veggies as this will soften them up and they normally dont lose any nutritional value this way where-as boiling them it goes into the water.... I don't remember though for how long to steam them... As far as soft leafy greens the finches should be able to eat that easily though as far as other foods go, might be harder depending on how soft it is... maybe cutting some open in half???

I don't know about finches, though budgies can use water bottles if they understand what it is. Otherwise if they don't have any other source of water besides a water dish then they will become dehydrated. I'm sure though that finches could learn to use a bottle in time!