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toddler loves toddler ready meals, hates my cooking

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dramaticpenguin · 15/03/2010 18:51

My 14 month old has become really picky, I keep trying him with recipies from baby centre, annabel karmel etc or just stuff we eat, like chicken rice & veggie things, or pasta with a creamy cheese sauce and he just spits it out, he used to love roast dinner blended but now won't touch that - chopped at any size! he loves the hipp organic toddler meals, which were meant to be a last resort, but seem to be coming out alot more cos he'll eat them. He won't eat a sensible meal in the day time at all now, just grazes at lunch time, maybe half a sandwich, an oat bar, raisins etc and won't touch fresh fruit. thankfully, he loves the fruit puree sachets and pots but thats an expensive way to get him to have fruit! anyone else had this problem, whenever i google it, all the responses seem to be that children hat ready meals and won't touch them, preferring fresh...finding it hard to have sympathy with that at the mo! My mum says i should just give him what I've cooked for him and no alternative but i feel mean letting him go hungry...what do you think?

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Kathyjelly · 16/03/2010 10:36

Try tasting the pre-prepared stuff yourself. Does it have a particular texture or taste you can copy? Is it very sweet? What's the sugar content?

I understand the guilt but I'm sort of with your mum in that if you don't get it sorted out now, you're going to be cooking separate meals for your ds for the next 16 years.

My ds (19 months) gets bored easily but as long as I vary food constantly, he'll usually eat home cooked stuff. His favourite at the moment is soup pasta with home made tomato sauce (courtesy of Jamie Oliver ).

OTTMummA · 16/03/2010 23:08

im sorry but i agree with your mum, no way in hell would any child of mine be catered to with a different meal ( no matter how easy it is ).
he will soon get hungry and will learn to eat what is given to him.
I find young children like to eat things that are colourful and have a taste, my son especially likes garlic in sauces and loves stir fry with peppers/broccoli and a interesting sauce.
also i find they tend to not eat from an overly full/covered plate.

good luck, but really, stop giving him the meals altogether, the longer it goes on the more resistant he will be longer term to new foods.

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