Cannot get 20 mth old to eat anything savoury. Really woried.

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My 20 month old has always been a bit of fussy eater. He has now decided to give up everything savoury. I am at my wits end. I have tried everything and I mean everything. I try and feed him, he refuses. I do finger food he refuses. Homemade, bottled, chips, nothing is working. He is a total nightmare. Breakfast is fine, he eats toast, porridge, apple. Lunch hit and miss, I offer sandwich type thing, yoghurt, fruit. dinner is becoming battle ground. I am so worried about him. I thought it was a phase but I don't know what to do. Any thoughts?

lamd and chicken work well with pureed apricots - we used this on dd as she was also very mardy about non fruit based things.
Will he eat pasta, you can get all sorts of things in a cheese sauce :)

no he has completely gone off everyhing savoury. He won't even try. he starts to spit before I even put it in his mouth. I have tried literally everything. I am filling him up on other stuff because I am so desperate to get him to eat anything so now he knows he can refuse and he still gets fruit,yoghurt, biscuits. its a nightmare. I need to withdraw everything I think

Offer it, take it away calmly if he will not eat it. I resorted to taking my dd down and presuming she wasn't hungry. She soon figured it out
He is going to learn very quickly how to control you through food. Try to be calm, he will not starve himself, honest!

My Ds is the same at 21 months, often I was reduced to tears and so was he. Exactly the same re fruit, yoghurt etc. The tactic I'm currently adopting is to offer the food and if he doesn't even try it, he gets one piece of plain toast. If he tries it but doesn't eat more than mouthful I treat this as a major triumph and let him have fruit - if he eats it all he gets jelly... (we don't get through much jelly )
This hasn't really improved the variety of his diet tbh but has made me much calmer because I have a plan and it isn't as upsetting for me.
He won't starve himself out of spite - I genuinely believe he's not really that bothered by food. We have had a major breakthrough with cheddar this way - he'll eat maybe 3 cubes of cheese in a sitting.
The other thing I've done is to give him a spoonful of Minadex every day or so - it's a tonic with iron in it so I feel less pressure to get him to eat meat etc.
hope that helps - just try not to let it get you down, nor to be bothered by unhelpful comments which I'm sure you get from people whose toddlers eat 3 course homemade meals!