My daughter (18 months) has always been a good eater, although for ages she hated anything she had to chew. She still doesn't like food that is runny but has some chewy bits in e.g past sauce but she will eat finger food or separate helpings quite readily.
So that battle is won, but now I have a new problem: berries. She is obsessed with them. Strawberries and raspberries are her favourites but any berry will do. The trouble is she won't eat her main course. She has about 4 spoons and then starts on 'bewwies, bewwies, bewwies' in a rising crescendo ending with tears.
I normally just say she can have her berries once she has eaten her food. She doesn't have to eat all of it just a reasonable amount i.e. she could credibly be full or sick of it. Someimtes this works and sometimes she doesn't and then she doesn't have much.
People have given me all sorts of advice like give her the berries first because you are making more of a treat or let he just eat berries if she wants.
I know they aren't chips but they aren't a complete diet either. Am i being too strict. What shall I do? I am sick of the daily bother.
At lunchtime today I gave her her lunch and put the berries on the plate with it along with finger food (sandwiches etc) and that worked fine but if I gave her food like that for dinner she would throw it on the floor (don't ask me why). And tonight she had salmon and spinach in cheese sauce and potatoes and carrots. It seems a bit weird to think she would eat her blueberries and then happily eat cheese.
This is a stream of consciousness isn't it.