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1 year old diet

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MrsOptimism · 20/08/2026 20:10

DD is now 17 months old and her eating journey has been a slow and bumpy one. She’s always been specific about what she will or won’t eat such as never taking to formula so has been exclusively breastfed. Never accepting expressed milk, it has always had to be direct from the source. We started the weaning journey at 5 months (had to start slightly earlier due to a dairy intolerance) and she rejected food for the longest time!!

she finally started showing an interest and actually eating food from around 14 months but it’s often small amounts (but slowly improving). She’s actually excited at meal times now and I have tried different types of food to try and get her adjusting to different flavours, textures etc. She absolutely hates anything wet or of a non solid consistency so nothing like porridge or even if it’s something more solid, it can’t be in sauce etc. Basically she loves pasta, anything of potato variety, rice, sometimes the smallest amount of meat, sweetcorn or cucumber…and did I say PASTA!

Now that I’ve given the long background! My question is, I always provide a balanced meal (meat, carbs, veg but I just find that most of the times all she’s really eating is the carb part so should I be concerned or has anybody had a similar start to their LO food journey which just naturally improved with time?

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Anothercake · 20/08/2026 20:33

Mine also only liked dry food, no veg, very little fruit. He's now five and still very fussy, but has a good understanding of what different food contains and how it helps his body so while very reluctant he will eat three peas at dinner time because he knows they have vitamins that help his white blood cells for instance. So it's got a bit better as he's got older as he understands why he needs different food. But he would never be able to eat a curry or pasta sauce. He has a lot of peanut butter sandwiches...

MrsOptimism · 20/08/2026 20:44

@AnothercakeThat’s a good idea. I think once I can communicate with her a bit better that will help a lot to try and explain why it’s good to eat the other bits and also just to tell her it’s yummy because there’s so many times when I know she’d love the taste of what’s on the plate but she just won’t give it a chance

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