I'm not sure if this is a problem really, but I'd like some ideas on how to get my DD (2.10) to eat fruit at home. She eats fruit purees with no problems, but doesn't seem to like the texture of things like grapes or berries, apples she will nibble bits if you cut it up but doesn't really actually eat it, IYSWIM. She loves bananas, and will happily eat one of those, but that's it - not nectarines, peaches, pears, anything! She seems to love the idea of grapes - she sees them in the fridge and often asks for them, but when I give one to her she just pops it (whole) in her mouth, keeps it there for ages, then eventually spits it out - sooner if she actually breaks the skin. I've tried giving them to her cut up, but then she won't have them in her mouth at all, just spits them straight out.
Her nursery say she eats fruit - including grapes - when she's there, cut up into small pieces, but I've been there when it's been fruit time and I've seen she generally doesn't eat it, just moves it around as far as I can tell!
DP and I eat a variety of fruit around her, and always ask if she'd like some, but the answer is always no. We don't make a thing of it, it's always just "would you like some? No? That's ok" and go on with eating as we were.
Much the same with salad stuff too - she won't eat cucumber, tomatoes (even the little ones), lettuce, although she will happily munch on raw carrot. She eats cooked veg - but only in food, she won't have say cooked carrot batons to munch on separately.
As I say, I'm not sure it's an issue as such as I do make sure she has a good balanced diet with her meals, but I feel she's missing out. We were at a friend's house last Saturday and her DD, who is the same age as mine (and our DDs are good friends) will quite happily have an entire apple, minus the core, and just eat her way through it. I'd love for my DD to do that!!