Hi all,
DD is nearly 17 months and I'm having a nightmare trying to get her to eat veg. Until recently she was eating a lot of pouch meals for lunch and dinner (for various good reasons - leading on from a previous medical condition not just couldn't be bothered to cook honestly!) and I've recently stopped these apart from occasionally but to be honest she refuses them a lot anyway even if I try to give one. I always chose high veg content ones (not just apple based stuff) so I didn't worry about her veg intake. She's always been fine with fruit, pots pouches and now chopped too.
Now she will eat proper, adult food for almost all of her meals. I never thought this day would come (we've had a nightmare weaning!). But she rarely eats what I would call meals, and she won't eat individual veg at all. So today, she's had:
Breakfast: 1 weetabix with whole milk, chopped blueberries and strawberries and some full fat natural yoghurt
Lunch: Bread roll with butter, chopped chicken, chopped cucumber and a bag of those kiddylicious veg sticks (that are flavoured but not real veg so I don't count them)
Dinner: Cheese omelette, breadsticks with cream cheese, banana fruit pouch
Snack: Natural yoghurt with a strawberry
She has free access to water all day and drinks plenty. She also takes a multivitamin daily on advice of our HV (they recommend all babies have them now apparently). She's a healthy weight (always following 75th centile from birth) and has no issues going to the loo or anything.
I made her some cooked veg at lunch and dinner (peas, sweetcorn and baby carrots) all of which were just ignored. She won't eat 'meals' - if I give her a bowl of spaghetti bolognese or shepherds pie for example she she ignores it. So I can't hide veg in stuff. I keep trying with the meals and veg but she just won't have it - she seems to only want picky bits all the time. Yesterday I tried fish fingers, homemade sweet potato wedges and veg, she ate the ff, licked a wedge and ignored the veg. Literally the only veg thing I can get in her is a cauliflower & broccoli cheese dish that i got from a baby weaning book and she'll only eat that as a purée which I'm trying to move away from as she's not a little baby now. I do still give it to her twice a week though.
Any ideas?
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SleepThief84 · 21/08/2017 18:24
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