13 month old won’t eat dry food

[Gimmefood]

My 13 month old won’t eat things like carrots, brocolli, pasta, fish fingers, rice (flavoured or plain), peas or anything that doesn’t have a sauce or isn’t sweet like fruit.

she will eat crackers / rusks / crisps if we offer it.

i’ve tried everything including offering it with foods she does eat.

What else can I do?

To be honest, I don't particularly like eating veggies and rice, pasta etc without a sauce.
I didn't want my son to become a picky plain pasta/potatoes/rice eater so from the beginning he got his curry mixed into his rice, Bolognese mixed into small pasta, veggies chopped small and cooked into a bake.

I don't see the problem with wanting sauce.

With fish fingers he gets ketchup 😅

I also have zero problem with him eating tons of fruit (aside from the cost of berries!!!)

At 13 months little ones are still learning how to eat and what they like. Just keep offering.

My DS was like this once weaned. Would happily eat anything saucy (bolognese, curry, pasta dishes etc etc) wouldn't touch non saucy meals. so I just stuck to saucy things because he liked them and wanted him to get confident with eating meals, I just hid veg in them (carrots grated into bolognese etc) and was kind to myself by thinking "I don't really want to eat plain boiled veg but I'm an adult and know I should, so why would I expect DS to sit and eat plain boiled veg??"

He is 19 months now and still does prefer a sauce based meal and we have only just really stopped mixing all the pasta or rice in to the sauce part of the meal and him still successfully eat it. I would recommend mixing pasta into the sauce part of a pasta meal and rice in to the sauce part of a curry etc and hiding veg in the meal itself. He's also only just started eating things like fish fingers with no sauce at all.

Try not to stress about it, sounds like they know what they like so just go with it for now.