Ive been now doing blw for six weeks and doing two meals a day. I have used Gill Rapley book and make things like croquettes, rissoles etc for him. He defintely has a preference for softer foods he can easily stuff into his mouth so potatoes, parnsips, sweet pots, lentil bakes, wetabix, possidge, fruit if its v ripe, toast, crumpets etc are all a hit. Any foods which require more chewing with a firmer texture like the meat rissoles, pieces of chicken,even pasta, firmer veg (that includes normal steamed veg) he puts in his mouth and spits out. He won't really eat much green veg either. Im trying not to but i end up giving him food i know he likes and will eat rather than making something or giving him some of our leftovers from the night before that I know he won't eat. (He has his main meal at lunchtime and not a bottle so he needs to get subsitence from solids-if he doesn't eat much I then offer him a bottle). Im worried that by constantly offer softer foods I know he will eat it will mean hes not getting experience of firmer foods. Do I need to offer foods I know he won't at the moment at every meal (at the moment it ends up in the bin!)or do i leave it a while, let him eat what he likes and then try again in a few weeks with firmer textures? Im a bit concerned if i continually give him foods he will eat he won't move on to other tastes and textures.
What do you think?