Help with eating!!

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My boy is 15 months old and I’m really struggling with his eating 😞 when he first started weaning and going onto more solid foods he was brilliant and would try almost anything, but now every dinner time is a struggle. He will refuse so many foods, hates all the fruit and veg I give him. He loves yoghurts and chips but he can’t live off them 😫
I’m going crazy and I’m feeling so down about it. To try and get him to eat fruit I’ve been giving him baby fruit purée just to give him something healthy!
I spoke to my health visitor today and she has referred us for some help but the waiting list is a month. I’ve been told to stop with the purée and persevere but I don’t want him to go hungry. Any advice would be much appreciated please. Even meal ideas, I’m willing to try anything to help my little boy love eating again 😞 please help me 😭

Avocado? Sweet potato? Smoothies (a bit like yogurts but milk/natural yogurt/some blended fruit.) Pasta? Porridge? Rice? (All fairly bland)

I suppose the question is what do you eat? If you eat a lot of different things and keep giving him a bit of what you're having, some things might work.

I have a chip lover too.... DD goes through phases of sometimes eating sometimes not. It's so stressful isn't it.
I give DD pasta, same shape as chips and she always eats it. I don't think that she thinks it's chips or anything but she love picking it up and eating it herself. Worth a try maybe? Does you LO feed themselves? DD does better doing it herself too. All that said, there are still days when she just won't eat

Also gnocchi....

Does he eat from your plate OP? I find with my DS he will try anything on my plate one other thing I found was taking him out of the "routine" so mine hated his high chair we have an island seat now and he prefers that. Taking the pressure/stress out of the situation made a difference for us. Sometimes when I was really struggling (and this happens now too!) I just let him play round the kitchen and leave his plate on his toy kitchen for him to pick at or catch him unawares sometimes and when his mouth is open surprise him with a spoon of wheetabix . You may have noticed but I also found with mine when he's teething he is not interested in food I got some fruit feeders and put ice in them and he crunches those and then will eat a little. Feel free to PM me

My DD2 hated wet mushy food and hated being fed by me. I used to give her a selection of things on a plate at each meal:cubes of ham/cheese/sausage, small squares of pizza. Pasta was always food. She liked fruit too. She never ate cereal with milk, she preferred it dry. She also loved things like fish fingers and chicken goujons dipped in tomato ketchup. Just persevere. You will get there.

Thank you everyone for your advice, I’m currently trying to give him stuff that he can pick up and eat himself, he occasionally pinches stuff from my plate but if he does it’s nearly always chips!
I’ll try pasta again tomorrow, it’s just the fruit and veg that worries me, he refuses nearly all of it :(