7 MONTH OLD WILL ONLY EAT FRUIT!!!

[ShinySarah]

My lo has been an amazing eater since he was introduced to solids at around 5 months. He's always had a huge appetite and eaten a main and a fruit after it until now. He will not eat anything unless it's sweet fruit!!
Help!! not sure what to do!!

could you add other veg to the fruit ie sweet pots or carrots then gradually reduce the amount of fruit in it?
it's many years since mine were at that stage but i remember using an anabel karmel recipe for cod with orange which went down a treat with all of them and helped to introduce them to fish

my 10 month won't eat much meat or fish, I gave him haggis the other day and he devoured it, hopefully it wasn't a fluke.

You can sneak meat or vegetables into your purees and you can also periodically just present food again. Presenting food again at a later date may well work fine because childrens mouths are developing very quickly, which means their tastes change. Food can actually taste different to a child from one week to the next, so don't worry too much yet, maybe try some sweeter veg like chatenay carrots or sweetcorn next or do something totally different and go for Haggis, as worked for CookieMonster.

I used to mix pureed fruit in with baby rice to bulk it up. Ds loved it.

I am having a simular problem! My 7 month old loves fruit and yoghurts but is less keen on savoury foods. She use to eat everything and anything but seems to be turning towards just sweet foods. I have just got annabel karmel baby and todler meal planner from the library and it has some good recipes and hints which foods are good to mix together including fruits with vegetables... hopefully my sweet-toothed little monkey will get fooled! its very frustrating but i think it is just going to be persistance with mine, took her a while to drink plain water with her main meal but we got there eventually and im not giving up with vegetables and meat!

My nearly 10m old is doing the same thing she always loved her food, we did huge batches of cottage pie, beef and chicken casseroles, pureed root vegs, all of which got devoured, she didnt spill a drop, however now at dinner she is refusing to eat, have tried jars of stuff as well to no avail, but she will eat her pudding?!

She eats porridge for breakfast and wolfs it down, lunch is rice cakes, bread and cheese, followed by yoghurt, again thoroughly enjoyed, but the dinner situation is really getting to all of us now, DD gets in a state, and its upsetting and worrying me and DH too

Just put the food in front of them. Don't get stressed. If they eat it it's a bonus. GIve them what you eat, eat at the same time, and they'll get the idea. If they want to eat fruit, let them eat fruit. Perhaps they enjoy the gnawing they can do on an apple, pear etc, at prime teething age. Do you keep the fruit in the fridge? Perhaps cold raw veg would fulfill the same function.

My DD now 8 ,even tells people she was a fruitarian(sp?). It took until she was 2.5 to eat anything other than fruit and almost 6 before she happily ate meat or fish.
I was nearly pulling my hair out, but realise now it was worth all the stress as she eats a much more varied diet than any other child I know.
Keep strong it will improve with time I promise.

Try finger foods for a change perhaps? Soft cooked carrot sticks, little cooked cauliflower and broccoli florets and toast fingers worked with mine when they were tiny - and as other people have mentioned sweet potato went down well, and can be chopped up or pureed with all sort of other veg and perhaps a bit of minced meat or fish too?

My DD refused to be fed at 8 months - she wanted to do it all by herself and was surprisingly good at it, albeit messy and meals took forever.

Good luck, keep at it, at 8 yrs old even my fussy DS loves fish pie, meat balls and curry, and actually asks for fruit at supper time. It takes time but in the end you get there.

I know it is easier said than done, but try not to stress as they do go through incredible phases. My little one refused to be spoon fed at all until he was about eight months old. Then he got really into food, ate pretty much anything, then gradually went off it again until at 13 months he was refusing everything except cake and breastmilk (latter not really a food, but he didn't seem to have worked that out). I stopped offering those two options and lo and behold, two months later, he is eating absolutely anything going without any help (including two helpings of curry at lunchtime today...).

Slippery slope.... My DN has everyone convinced he can only eat fish fingers sausages and potato waffles Hes now 11. And getting tubby cos of metabolism changing during puberty.

DD (8 months) has also started doing this a couple of weeks ago. I found she will eat finger food so I've started giving her rice cakes, toast and little sandwiches for lunch.
I've also found that if I let her touch the food she will eat it, so if we're indoors in will let her sit with her hand in the bowl while I feed her. Too messy for feeding when out and about though :)

"I will" not "in will"

There's everything in fresh fruit maybe not much protein but gorillas are fruitarian with an insect or 2 for that, only humans get hung up on 'meat and 3 veg.'