Does what you feed a baby make a difference to fussiness?

[Sherbert37]

Interested to know whether home cooked food versus jars mean a child will grow up a fussy eater or not. DS1 - no jars at all (before organic ones and they looked foul) but now the fussiest eater out. DD - a few jars but mostly home made and reasonably fussy. DS2 - jars and tins by the dozen and the easiest child to feed, he really loves his food and is very adventurous. What about everyone else?

All home cooked and will give most things a go, though it is still early days (19mth)

When my dd was ready for solids I didn't really cook at all and she had mostly jars. Since she was about one I started cooking lots more and now we eat super healthily and dd will eat anything. I always put this down to the fact she was bf and got used to different tastes in my milk. Ds is nearly 21 weeks so weaning is not that far off for him I intend to give him all home cooked stuff but he was only bf for 3 weeks so time will tell...

no

Sherbert37, I can't imagine why. I think fussy eaters are born, not made - but that does not mean it won't get better as they get older. As a baby, dd would not touch jars and hardly ate homecooked food either. Still fussy eater at 2.5 years. She was bf-ed for 17 months - dh and I eat anything and everything. I was a fussyeater as a child.