Help! How do I get my DS to eat fruit?

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I'm sure that this question has been posted lots of times before, so apologies for this. My one year old son is a good eater, apart from when it comes to fruit. I did what I thought I was supposed to do during weaning, giving him pureed fruits, but when he progressed onto mashed food and then proper meals, he got more and more fussy when it came to fruit.
He will eat meals and vegetables, but point blank refuses fruit. It's good that he eats veg I know, but snack and pudding times are getting annoying. Other mums get out the tubs of blueberries and satsumas, but he won't eat these. The only fruit he will eat are raisins and those bloody ready-pureed tubs of fruit!
Please can anyone help? My DD has always been great with fruit.
(confused)

same here - DS even refuses raisins now, stopped eating those fruit pots ages ago . He's 2.

He's never liked fruit, despite being offered it all the time. He'll occasionally eat it at nursery though, so only suggestion I can come up with is having some fruit out when you meet up with any friends with same aged kids - if he sees them eating, he may join in.

Don't worry too much - if he's eating a wide variety of vegetables he'll be getting everything he needs from there.

My DS won't eat anything except fruit (I exaggerate, but it's not that far off true), would you like to swap?

Seriously, I wouldn't worry about it, but keep offering fruit, as he might suddenly start eating it again.

DS2 was like this - I kept offering him fruit and eventually he started to eat it again. In the meantime, I gave him a fresh smoothie everyday and a frozen one after supper........

cut up a banana on top of his cereal in the morning.

or Grate an apple onto his cereal. It is really nice. Works in porridge too.

Make him sandwitches and filled pitta bread with cream cheese and sliced apple or pear, or cut up grapes, or honey and banana, or cream cheese and banana.

Does he like mango? I have yet to meet a child who doesn't.

What about tinned peaches or pears? Maybe he doesn't like the hardness of fruit and the tinned options would be better (tinned fruit still counts as fruit, just buy the ones in natural juice rather than syrup)

How about pureed fruit on top of cereal or mixed into greek yoghurt for pudding? If he eats pureed fruit like apple sauce just make that for him.

If he likes raisins try him on other dreid fruit like apricots and figs and dates.

But if he eats veg I wouldn't worry about it too much.

Just offer veg as a snack instead, and take veg out with you in littlew pots, forget blueberries, take some cooked carrots or peas!

He's only one, give him time and he'll probably find some fruit he likes.

My 9 year old won't eat fruit except for raisins. He stopped at about 18 months. He tried occasionally, but just doesn't like it. I find it completely bizarre, particularly considering that he eats practically all vegetables, including the usually child-unfriendly ones like sprouts, but doesn't like delicious peaches or strawberries.

I would just hand out the carrots and relax about it! Does he like cherry tomatoes? (mine doesn't!)

oh, meant to add - my 25yo sister has never eaten fruit (bar the odd banana when she was a kid). She just hates the texture.

DS will eat mashed banana or most other fruits pureed and put in his readybrek (only way I can get it into him), but won't even entertain the idea of a slice of apple or mango. We've tried every kind of fruit you can think of..

v frustrating.