I know what you're all going to say but just humour me...

[PuppyDogTails]

Bit worried about DS is getting fussy about food.

He's 10 months, BLWed, currently eats
Breakfast - most cereals (dry), toast
Lunch - bread, cheese, that's about it
Dinner - pasta with tomato or pesto, fishfingers and chicken sometimes

He'll happily eat any fruit I give him, will eat carrots, peas, broccoli sometimes. Eats yoghurt.

If I try him with anything else though he licks it, screws up his face and throws it away. Made him a lovely macaroni cheese for lunch, which ticks all the boxes (or so I thought) and it got thrown on the floor. There's no chance with red meat.

I'd like to feel he was eating a variety of different things so that he didn't get fussy about what he ate later.

Am I worrying about nothing? Is it just a phase he's going through and he'll get a bit more adventurous later on?

[StealthPolarBear]

me too
sometimes DS eats well sometimes hardly eats anything
has a list of things he likes and things he refuses - he won't eat cheese which is a pity

[Aitch]

dd never eats much for lunch, i think it's because she fills up at breakfast and then has some milk mid-morning. so i think at 2 she eats much the same as your ds there. she wouldn't have macaroni, she'd be too full. bits of cucumber, fruit, bread cheese are more likely.
evening-wise, she has what we're having. pasta, fish, stew, blah blah. what do you eat? i have found that Making Something Special For DD almost guarantees her not being interested.

[WanderingTrolley]

Sometimes it's not taste, it's texture that's the issue. As you know he's eating very well. He might be more amenable to trying new things later - there are plenty of gourmand babies who turn into toddlers who live on thin air and Weetabix who turn into 4 year olds whose favourite dish is curry who turn into 8 year olds who will only eat Dairylea sandwiches who turn into etc etc...

In the nicest way: yes, you are worrying about nothing

[WanderingTrolley]

Yes Aitch - there is a direct corrolation between how long you spend preparing something you're really excited about them eating and how effectively they show their disdain

[PuppyDogTails]

That's interesting what you say about lunch Aitch, it is definitely his worst meal. He can get through a fair amount at breakfast, I have been trying to avoid mid-morning snacks to try to get him to eat better at lunchtime but he's often too tired to bother. Note to self - stop worrying about lunch, give him something mid-morning when he'll eat it. He also has milk before his after-lunch nap so he's not going to go hungry.

Evening meal is difficult - I would love him to eat with us but DP isn't home from work until 6:30pm which means that's the earliest we can eat. DS can't wait that long. What I tend to do it give him his meal at about 4pm then let him have some of ours as 'supper' (plus then his bedtime milk).

Annoyingly he will eat better if I just let him sit on the floor and eat . There are occasions where he refuses food at the table, I take him out of his chair then turn around to find him eating off the floor the stuff he just refused.

[Aitch]

ah, funny you should mention that. if you (can be arsed to) look on the blog you'll see that dd and her pal both went through a stage at about 10 months-ish (when they got good at pulling themselves up) where they wanted to eat pickanicky stuff at the coffee table rather than sit down, particularly at lunch. i presumed it was cos there were more interesting things to be doing than eating.

[PuppyDogTails]

Mmmm, innnnteresting.

The problem with letting him eat on the hoof is that I'm too much of a slattern and can't be arsed hoovering up too frequently. I've already taken off him this morning a crust that he found on the lounge floor, must be at least 48 hours old

[Aitch]

and this is where you roll out yer clean food. cheese, oatcakes, carrot, cucumber, ham etc...