Baby picking what to eat

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My 9 Month old refused to spoon fed . The only thing I can feed him is a fruit pot and yogurt so I give him finger sized food for his meals but I noticed he's picky on what he chose to eat . I once gave him chicken sweet potatoes and carrots as a meal and he only chose to eat the carrots . I wasn't expecting him to eat the carrots only so I only cooked a little . But he loves chicken and sweet potatoes because he's had them loads before and enjoys it so I'm not sure why he chose not to eat them on that day . This is just one example but does this often with others meals too. Im hoping he doesn't end up being a picky eater is there a way I can encourage him to atleats whatever I put on his tray . I don't to be in a position in future whereby I'm cooking two meals

Just keep offering a range of things. They usually go through phases where they start refusing something that they have always previously eaten.

Babies are human though - some days they just don't fancy something. I'm sure there are days when you only want a particular meal. You can choose to an extent because oyu cook it. It's different if someone just plonks food in front of you without discussion!!

That's fine and perfectly normal. Just offer lots of things and have extra so you can offer more (of the things that are healthy anyway, which really it should all be at this stage). It's not being picky, it's just having a preference. Mine could always have as much as they wanted of what was on offer in the meal. That's not the same thing as making a separate special meal just for them.

Thank you for your opinions. I'll do so

When they use their hands they often start preferring drier easier to pick food - we did blw with DS and I noticed that while he loved to self-feed purees, if there was a choice, he’d go for the whole veg.

I might try giving him chopped sweet potato / carrots, shredded chicken, and let him self-feed.