What other fruits are like blackberries?

[Wonderingpigeon]

21 month old refuses everything phase...but will demolish a punnet of blackberries.

Tried blueberries, raspberries, strawberries all in a variety of forms.

So anyone else think of healthy foods that mimic blackberries to get variety in?

She has potential SEN and a developmental delay. Not sure if that has any reasoning towards the highly tricky feeding that even nursery struggle with 😅

Is the issue you can't get blackberries now? If you can get them I'd just go with it, they are healthy and you can't really force variety, they will select what they want.

Keep serving a variety and hopefully one day they'll try. I read a food should be offered at least twenty times before you expect it to be eaten. Serve a mix of things on the plate and let them just play with it.

Yes I can get blackberries it's just it's the only fruit she wants to eat. I guess i was worried one fruit isn't enough nutrition wise? I think I've been pressured seeing those weaning pages where the toddlers eat plates full of all these different veggies and foods that look like they are from a chef 😅
We have constant food refusal here and only wanting crackers or crunchy foods. I still offer the cooked dinners but just get thrown :(

I sometimes add frozen cherries to my yoghurt when I have phases of thinking I should eat a wider range of fruit.
Maybe try them? They have the stones removed. How very unusual to like blackberries so much the only person I ever met who would eat a whole bowl was my late father.

I'd stop looking at the images of toddlers eating a wide variety of foods!

A lot of Toddlers can often be quite wary of new foods. If she has potentially got SEN then there also the potential for ARFID.

Offer her something alongside the blackberries, especially if you're eating it too but don't be too worried if the new food is rejected

Just keep offering everything in different ways and don't give any pressure to eat it.

I think its 14 times for them to even realise I they like/ dislike something and that's for each way the food is prepared/ served.
You can get dark raspberries, but I've not seen them in the shops.

Just keep offering a variety.

Don't give her just blackberries, even if you know that's all she'll eat.

You need to keep putting other things on her plate alongside the blackberries and eventually she might try them.

Just make sure they're things you like so you can polish up the leftovers 😅

It's an uphill struggle but don't force anything, just keep giving her the option and don't get annoyed when she leaves it.

Oh and Loganberries are a bit like blackberries but not the same colour.

Funnily enough I have ARFID 😅. My dad is equally awkward with foods and the dietician who diagnosed it did say he sees it run in families in his experience.

I will try loganberries! Thank you I wouldn't of thought of them.

I know haha it's so random. She seems to be quite unconventional in taste..I cant get her to eat anything then when we were out once she polished off a wasabi dish no one could eat 😂😂

My son has had sensory food issues all his life. Consequently he won't eat any fruit (too soft) or any softer veg (tomatoes for example). Or indeed any soft food at all. Never has. Only eats crunchy harder type veg think carrots and that sort of thing. I agonised over this when he was growing up, but did research and actually fruit is not needed at all! There's all the vitamins in veg and often more so. So if she's eating veggies then no bother at all.
btw He's grown up and over 6 foot now and works out daily and looks amazing!

Funnily enough I have ARFID 😅. My dad is equally awkward with foods and the dietician who diagnosed it did say he sees it run in families in his experience

DC2 has it and I think I might have some sort of PSTD from the toddler years

Things are much better now but they can cook and more or less sort themselves out. Teaching them to cook has literally been life saving.

Has she got one of those toddler friendly knives so that she can help you to cut things up?

Mulberries are similar and delicious, but not as commonly found.

Obviously raspberries are similar too, but I'm sure you've already thought of that!

You live and learn, I thought loganberries were made up like snozzberries in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
I'm sorry to hear there are so many people with arfid around. In my professional life I have seen how devastating it can be.
I am again impressed With your little one -eating wasabi ! I always throw away that little sachet you get with sushi !

Oh gosh yes, growing up in the 90's with it, it never occurred to them so I was sent to refeeding clinics (ED units) obviously force feeding someone whose sole issues is sensory was rather distressing 😅
Tbh independence and cooking my own meals is what helped me. Being able to tweak dishes to textures I was comfortable with.

No toddler knives yet, I am planning to but she has a developmental delay so is a bit behind and wouldn't manage it quite yet.

Yes it's only last year or so I've even heard of their existence 😂
Worth a try!

You should of seen my face..😂 hates ice-cream, the usual meals but will out eat a table of adults with wasabi 😅

Loganberries are delicious although I'm still yet to try a Snozzberry unfortunately

Not similar to blackberry's, but I have a autistic DS who mostly likes crunchy things, but also eats blackberry, so maybe similar texture profile.

He usually has carrot or cucumber sticks at times when other kids would have fruit (including taking it to school for brake), and also eats apple if cut into slices. Some fruit he'd not eat fresh but will have in other formats like dried mango or frozen Berry mix (still frozen, instead of ice lollies)

That's an idea! I haven't tried dried fruit other then when I make granola!

I would try purple grapes to check if it is the colour that is appealing.

That's a good shout. Just make sure you halve them OP

Think the current advice is to quarter them lengthways 😀

Think the current advice is to quarter them lengthways

That does make sense

I really wouldn't stress about a variety of fruit. They'll all have vitamin C and water in them, for the most part.

I remember my mum talking about it being lucky that potatoes were high in vitamin C, since she knew of a child who would only really eat chips and some form of protein at dinner, for years.

I agree that if you can find a tree, mulberries are insanely good. Very sweet.