fussy eater - 1 year old

[firststeps]

My one year old lo is starting to get very fussy at tea time, for the past 2-3 days he has refused most of his tea except for pieces of cheese. He normally has some finger foods to pick at (cheese/toast/fruit/little pieces of pizza etc), but if he hasn't eaten much of this I will usually offer him a jar or something homemade that I can feed him with a spoon as well. He now starts to cry when all his cheese has gone a refuses anything else. If I don't give him any cheese at all he will cry until he gets some!!! He either has a 2 hour sleep at lunchtime or an hour 10-11ish and 3-4ish so he isn't too tired, he also has is lunch around 11.45 (earlier if he is having his nap after lunch) so he must be hungry. He has a bottle (4oz at the most at 2pm) but he is starting to phase this out. This sounds trivial as I'm writing it down, but it's a long time from tea time til breakfast the next morning with only a bottle before he goes to bed so any ideas/advice would be gratefully received!

[DizzyBinterWonderland]

do you eat your tea when he eats his tea? what do you have? have you tried just giving him what you're having and let him feed himself?

[firststeps]

I usually have my tea later with my dh when my lo is in bed; he doesn't usually get in from work until around 6ish which would be too late for us all to eat together - I will have something with him tomorrow though to see if it makes any difference - thanks for the suggestion.