Weaning - my baby won't take savoury food

[trixie84]

I started weaning my 7 month old DD two months ago and she just won't even begin to like anything savoury.. but she adores anything fruity!

I've tried everything including putting apple purée on the tip of the spoon before the savoury part but once she susses out what I'm doing she clamps her mouth closed and refuses to eat anything else! Obviously I will keep trying but I'm just constantly wasting food batches that I've made and pouches that I've bought trying to get her to even remotely like savoury food!

Any advise on how I can get her to start evening attempting to like savoury food (casserole, sweet potatoes mash etc) would be greatly appreciated!

I think this why they advise starting with veg purée first rather than fruit purée (not that I did, but fortunately DD is a gannet and ate everything in sight so it didn't matter)

All you can maybe do is keep trying the savoury stuff. At 7 months it isn't vital that they eat any solids at all so you could maybe cut the fruit purée out altogether and start again with savoury stuff.

I didn't really do purée either, mainly because she refused to eat anything off a spoon so I gave her Aldi's carrot puffs and tomato wheels which melted in the mouth and were easy for her to hold. From there she progressed onto well cooked pasta in sauce and all sorts of other things.

Whatever you do just try and remember food is for fun until they are one, if she doesn't eat anything it doesn't matter. Just let her play with it and taste it in her own time and see what happens.

At 7mo food is complimentary rather than necessary to her diet, so I'd stop offering sweet foods all together until she developes a better taste for savoury.

To save on food wastage, how about just feeding her a bit off your plate? Then nothing of any quantity will be wasted and you won't feel like you've wasted any time lovingly preparing 'special' food as you were making your meal any way? It's soul-destroying when you spend ages making them something special only for them to reject it immediately. I found giving them a bit of mine didn't feel as bad if they turned their nose up!

Agree with others, food isn’t really necessary at this age. I’d stop buying the pouches and stop offering the sweet stuff and, as suggested above, just give her a bit off your plate. So if you have a cheese sandwich for lunch, just offer her some on her tray and let her get on with it.

Once she realises there’s no sweet stuff coming her way she will start to take more of an interest.

Who wouldn’t hold out if theyvthoufht they could have their favourite foods for every meal

Forgot to say, the MN Weaning talk is useful too if you want to take a nosey

BLW. Broccoli is way more fun to eat when it isn’t smooshed up.

Just keep offering it to her and offer it the way you'd eat a meal. You probably don't have fruit or pudding first, and you probably don't have it every meal. So start offering foods like you'd eat them and cut out the sweet stuff (ideally not mashed or pureed, pureed savoury food is disgusting). She may not eat anything for awhile, but that's fine. She will eventually. It's a marathon, not a sprint. Just offer plenty of milk between meals.

Guys thank you all so much! This is all great advise and I am definitely going to take it all on board! I'm a first time mum so it's all a massive learning curve.. having advise from other mums is so important so thank you! xx

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