How long to accept different tastes?

[Murl]

I began weaning my DD a month ago, she is now 6 months. She has been pretty good and accepting different foods although some days she seems to eat a fair bit, whereas others hardly anything.

Now she is 6 months I have made some different purees with meat (chicken, beef), fish, and cheese. These are obvisouly quite a change for her and although she will eat a little she will not eat much before refusing.

I have 2 questions I hope you lot out there can help with! ....

If she only has a little of the new food, I give her some fruit as I know she loves this. Should I do this or will she just learn to refuse anything slightly different and she will get her favourite?

Also, will she grow to like/accept the new tastes? Should I expect to try a number of times before she 'likes' the new meat / cheese / fish purees?

I am already worrying that she is never going to eat cheese, meat or fish! Irrational I know - I have only tried these with her once!!

Advice / experience grately received.

thanks

I think 'they' say it can take 15-20 offerings before a new taste is accepted so dont be too worried about refusal at the first taste. You could try cheese/meat/fish, etc as a finger food too and she can practise feeding them to herself

I remember struggling with these questions!

I remember offering a few pieces of cooked pasta quite a few times and then one day he just ate it all and looked at me like "so where's the rest?". Yesterday I tried to give him a new kind of cheese (he's now 1yr), which he utterly refused, but today he insisted on eating my entire cheese sandwich! Just keep offering and although she'll have favourites and dislikes, she's probably going to start eating meat/cheese/fish etc quite suddenly.

I did offer other food if he didn't eat any of it, but as I did BLW I tended to give three or four different options anyway (of sticks of food - not complete meals!). Try to be led by whether she seems hungry or not.