Very ypoung ds already cottoning on that the sooner he stops eating dinner the sooner he gets yoghurt...

[JamesAndTheGiantBanana]

Maybe I can't see the wood for the trees here but he's starting to leave/throw most of his dinner on the floor and starts struggling to get down from his highchair, but he isn't full because he'll then eat as much yoghurt or pudding as he can afterwards. And he's now starting to mess about with lunch etc the same way although generally doesn't have yoghurt or pudding after lunch (maybe some fruit or raisins)

I don't try to feed him food he dislikes, but unless it's yoghurt or other sweet or "bad" foods he'll only eat a bit before throwing it on the floor and it's driving me mad, what do I do? He's only 15 months ffs!

At that age, I'd say give him yoghurt first? Or give him the rest of dinner after his yoghurt.

The throwing is a developmental thing. We ignored it, with lots of praise for leaving things on table...

I thought it was a developmental thing but having my doubts now since he doesn't throw biscuits, chocolate buttons etc

I could try giving yoghurt first but I'd be scared he wouldn't even look at his dinner afterwards.

We are having a similar problem with our 3 y-o at the moment - he goes through phases of only wanting pudding, and will move his food round the plate a bit and then demand a yogurt. I'm not of the 'you only get pudding if you eat all your dnner' school, so we have decided to introduce the element of surprise - some days there is pudding, and some days there isn't and he doesn't know whether each day is a pudding day or a no pudding day (by pudding i mean usually yogurt or fruit).

At 15 months, you might just get tantrums if you try this approach but it might be worth a shot. The only guarantee is that the more worked up you get the worse they usually are. We went through another phase with ds1 when he was approaching two and only when we backed off and refused to get wound up did it stop. It's easier said than done though.

HTH.

It could just be developmental, but what i do with my 2yr old is tell him he has to eat one bite of each thing on his plate first (always things i know he likes) then he can have yogurt / fruit.