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11 month old fussy eating

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Bullzeye · 11/11/2023 21:37

Hi everyone, was looking for some recipe ideas or advice. My son is 12 months in a couple of weeks and he's driving me mad with food. I tried BLW and it didn't go so well so I stuck to mainly purees and every now and then gave him finger foods.

He refuses a lot of foods unless blended. At the moment he hasn't had any solid food for a week (teething I suspect). But normally he will eat toast and butter, baby carrot puffs/mini rice cakes. He will happily eat a onefibre bar, biscuits etc. Not great I know .. but I wanted to see if he had an issue with textures/chewing and clearly it is not that.

If I give him mash or soft veggies, he just throws them on the floor. He wont eat scrambled eggs or omelettes, pasta or anything like that. He will eat food with chunks of carrots in etc but has to have a lot of sauce otherwise he will spit it out.

He likes lentils with tomato sauce and cheese, spag bol sauce but without the pasta, tuna pasta bake (blended). I try and put peppers peas, broccoli etc in these too so he's getting nutrients. He's ok with texture as long as it's in a sauce.

Is it normal to be so fussy still and still want food blended? Feel like everything gets wasted at the minute.

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SiennaMillar · 11/11/2023 21:50

How about a thicker purée like the Ella’s Kitchen 10m+? Maybe mix in a fruit pouch to make it more appetising, and then reduce the fruit ratio.

My baby is particularly interested in our food, so we all eat together at 5pm. First, we spoon feed her a EK pouch, and then we sit down together and she has finger food from our plates, and because she can see us eating it, she wants it too. We’ll give her a bit of salmon, baby corn, courgettes, broccoli etc. we have never offered her food that we wouldn’t want her to expect everyday. Because she’s already had her pouch, the pressure is off, and she chucks some of her finger food on the floor it’s no big deal

bettynutkins · 11/11/2023 22:04

I would just keep offering a variety of foods.

Some kids are just fussy though. My son was fussy right from the beginning and now at 3 has hardly any variety (actually looking into whether has some sort of sensory issues) but now I've had 2nd baby who loves all food I've finally stopped blaming myself and realised he is just a fussy eater.

As I say just keep offering. One day he might eat something different.

Bullzeye · 12/11/2023 09:39

Thanks all. Yeah he's ok with a pouch it just seems to be anything I bloody make! Must be my cooking 😂

I think it's cos I'm comparing to other babies and keep thinking something is wrong with him!

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NutcrackerSweety · 12/11/2023 09:44

At that age my child preferred to steal off my plate, he’d eat whole roast like that. Other than that it was puréed food or fish pie/ cottage pie (with apple to make it a bit sweeter) etc.

Mamato29192 · 12/11/2023 09:45

Just keep offering. It's what I did with my son. I either did separate food for him or he had what we had x

Bullzeye · 12/11/2023 09:50

Yes he likes to steal off my plate now but most of the time spits it out. At least he's trying though!

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