10 m will only eat Banana and toast

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I’m really struggling with this - I feel my approach must be all wrong and failing at the first hurdle...
Not an overly keen eater from the start’ from 6m puréed our own food or the usual veg (including the more “bitter” ones) and spoon fed, never ate too much but had a nice time and made a nice mess.
At about 8/9 months Coordination improved enough to eat sticks of food (over boiled sweet potato, squash, broccoli, pear, banana and toast), all quite chilled out, a lot of mess but everyone happy.
Teeth have come through in last couple of weeks and has started actively throwing food into the floor - we don’t react to this (most of the time 😬) - and refusing to eat anything by spoon, unless it is banana or toast.
It utterly miserable, I try and pretend it’s all ok, but he trashes around and screams.
I’ve tried just finishing as soon as he kicks off, I’ve tried just ignoring it and pretending nothing is happening.....
The other option is just to feed him banana and toast for the rest of his life.
Any advice much appreciated!! I’ve had to go and have a cry this morning mid-breakfast - which is not very sustainable ☹️

He won’t eat banana and toast for the rest of his life. He is going through a phase

Give him banana and toast along side other food and don’t make a big deal of it. He will grow out of it

Are you sitting him in his high chair and eating at the same time from your own plate?

Getting emotional over perfectly normal developmental learning isn't sensible. There's no need for it. Babies are weird...one of mine would only eat pasta and cucumber for quite a long time. She got there in the end.

If you get stressed they can tell...and then they feel stressed.

Agreed. Remember your job is to provide the food, his job is to eat it.

Keep offering different foods along with the banana and toast. If he doesn’t eat it, take it away without comment.
You could try every now and again offering him some of what you are eating. Again no comment if he won’t try it.

If you are really desperate try mixing a bit of avocado into the banana- you can’t really taste it and you might feel better

It is definitely a phase but it’s super annoying when you are doing your best to be a great parent and the little buggers won’t co- operate.

Totally normal in my opinion - I'm sat here watching DS throw all his raspberries (previously his favourite thing in the world) on the floor and get cross with me because I dared to serve them in the first place. Teeth really impacted DS re feeding too and he would go for days without eating much and then be totally fine. You just have to ride it out. Everything is a phase!

He's only little and teething so let him have banana and toast.
Offer other foods too and he'll probably eat them in time.

Thank you - that is what I’m hoping - I was worried I’d exacerbate it but “giving in” and giving him the banana and toast.
I just need to pull myself together and get over it.
New mantra is “it’s just phase”
Thank you all - feel a lot better about it

Please don't worry about this.

I look back on my toddler's limited diet and wish I'd just accepted it. DC1 is far more adventurous with food choices now than DC2 but she was far narrower in her choices at that age.

Please don't worry. Just offer something new occasionally but for your own sanity, just offer something new every couple of days, not relentlessly.