Weaning - sweet tooth problem

[RuthT]

My baby is over six months old and was fine having veg until abiut 2 weeks ago. She will eat fruit puree until the cows come home but flat refuses veg. If I mix fruit puree with veg she is happy too, but I ma worried that I am just encouraging a sweet tooth.

Has anyone had the same problem?

Yep! Exactly the same. I keep offering it anyway, mainly the sweeter veg like carrot, squash, etc. I'm not too worried yet, as having tasted pureed veg I can completey understand where she is coming from and I like vegetables!

I find my dd will quite happily attempt to feed herself broccoli florets (and any other tastey morsels she can steal from the rabbits dish come to that!) so I don't doubt things will improve when she's better with finger foods too.

Same here! DD will play with steamed veg (not much gets eaten but at least she is tasting it), but won't entertain pureed veg on a spoon. Fruit purees are a winner here also. I have given up a bit on veg purees, and am trying meals, spag bol, curry, fish pie etc. She is far happier with these so I need to start making veggie versions now. I think it is such a common thing (sweet tooth), that it's nothing much to worry about at this stage.

Yup same here initially. I've pushed on with the veg though and moved to "tastier" or stronger combinations, which seems to be working, albeit slowly! Things like roasted veg also mixed veg that has been softened in a little butter or olive oil and adding garlic, often featuring onions and leeks. For me, these are much tastier than carrots on their own, as per bobbleheads comments, I like veg but bot keen on plain boiled steamed pureed veg with no butter or anything tasty! Have also really worked on homemade stock to mix or thin out purees with as Ds doesn't seem to be v good with dairy yet. So have made really good batches of veg stock (no salt blah), simmering for ages and then frozen it into ice cubes as well. Has made made even plain old mash potato without butter much more palatable in Cratchit land!

How do you make your stock Baba (step by step instructions please)

My LO will eat veg if it has something 'unhealthy' in it - cream, butter, cheese (especially strong tasting cheese.) He started nursery this week [sob] and has eaten everything - pork curry, lamb mince and veg so I reckon I wasn't give him enough 'proper food' - given a choice between shepherds pie and mashed broccoli, I know which I'd choose!

Exactly the same - and I agree with PPs. I pushed on quickly to "tastier" savoury stuff and things with more texture - so mushroom risotto and things like that. I found the general rule of thumb was that if it was so bland or boring that I wouldn't have voluntarily eaten it myself then DS wouldn't eat it either.

Also, he'd eat food off my plate much more eagerly than he would from his own (provided it was something I was actually eating - he wasn't to be fooled by trying to fob him off with baby food while I ate something different).

Sounds like it would be a good idea to try tastier things. I was worried abut pushing on too fast as you're only meant to introduce one item for a few days. If I did that it would take forever to get to anything remotely tasty