Ds is 9 months old and has always been a bit of a picky eater, but just recently, he's been having bouts of not wanting to eat anything off the spoon at all at certain mealtimes. It mainly tends to be the "good" food that I've cooked for lunch that he won't eat - chicken/fish with vegetables and cheese sauce/ scrambled egg etc. If he won't eat I tend to offer him yoghurt/bits of toast/rice cakes/ bits of fruit which he'll eat fine. My question is, if he won't eat the meal I've prepared, should I try offering him something else until I find something he likes, or am I creating a rod for my own back by doing this? And if I do only offer him the meal I've prepared and he really doesn't want it, will he start to associate mealtimes with tension? I feel so confused and frustrated, any advice would be really welcome.