weaning worries

[wongy258]

Hi mums, have been weaning ds nearly 7 months for three weeks now and have a question about sweet/savoury foods. I've been offering 2 cubes of veg followed by fruit and yoghurt, ds is fussy when it comes to veg but will eat parsnip and carrot - max two cubes but will then eat nearly a whole banana, should I be offering sweet afterwards- will he soon learn to refuse savoury all together? - please help as want to nip a possible prob in the bud!

My dd2 was (and still is) fruit-mad, and I ended up mixing mashed banana into all the other early weaning foods to get her to eat them. i gradually reduced the amount of banana over a few weeks until there was none at all. Now she's a great eater, very flexible and adventurous.

Your ds sounds similarly sweet-flavoured (was he bfed, supposed to be a sweeter taste than formula?).

HTH

I think you're doing well that he'll have parsnip and carrot! My DD wouldn't have those in puree form, only finger food, so not much was actually getting in, though I felt at least she was getting the flavour - maybe this is a way to go for you? I continued with fruit purees and finger foods and started to introduce veg in curries etc at around 8m and she enjoys those, so I think it was the texture/blandness that she disliked. There are even some veg (peas, baby sweetcorn for example) which she will eat plain as finger food and actually consume a decent amount now (9.5m) so I'm sure there is hope! HTH

my ds favourite is swede! As long as there is swede somewhere in the dish he'll eat it.
Try grating some mild cheese on top of the veg, I bet he'll eat it then!

thanks guys - do you think I shouls dtop offering the "pudding" then altogether?

thanks Sassy! Just gave him mashed banana with shepherds pie and he ate it! so will keep doing this and gradually reduce fruit. - how long did it take your DD to eat savoury without the fruit? :)

Only give a pudding if he's eaten the savory first otherwise he'll cotton onto the fact that he can refuse savory to get sweet.

Clever little buggers aren't they? :o

i just do a spoon of one and then the other or sometimes i just give half the sweet then ds is happy to take the savoury, its like he is making sure there is gonna be something sweet!! Mashed banana in his savoury is a thing i do too and did it with dd. It has been about a month now and he will accept savoury without sweet but i have started proteins so maybe that is why also i keep the fruit cubes well hidden!!

There are lots of other veggies which are naturally quite sweet like sweet potato, butternet squash with pear. DD (18 mths)used to really like those when she was that age. I used a lot of Annabel Karmel's purees and they generally went down well because she would often have apple or sweet potato in the savoury dishes. Another friend used to put raisins in everything! DD eats some veg now individually but will eat most of them in pasta dishes - basically anything with tomato often works well too! As they get older their tastes develop anyway - e.g. DD loves olives and garlic now. But just when you think you have it all sussed, they will go on a food strike to spite you I'm not sure when we started this but we used to have a rule that if no savoury was eaten then DD only got plain wholemeal bread and butter but I think she was a bit older when we started that.

Hi wongy

Think it was maybe a month /6 weeks before we dropped the banana. We got through a LOT of them!

(She's 14mo now, and eats just about anything.!

Good luck - and don't get stressed about it. Early weaning is just about tastes and textures, not actual nutritional benefit.