When do you decide baby doesn't like something?

[sharond101]

How often do you offer it? How many guises do you serve it?

DS doesn't seem to like cheese, eggs, bananas, salmon or yoghurt. He scrunches up his face and refuses entry of anymore. Do I keep trying even after several attempts at each?

How old is he?
Ihave found sometimes it's the texture rather than the taste, so if I make the same thing smoother, or lumpier they will take it.

If no changes then I'd wait a week or two and try again

About 20

He is 8mo

When you've picked it out of your hair, or scraped it off the carpet/floor/ceiling/tv screen for the tenth time.

I would leave for a month or so and try again,

Leave it a few weeks then try again. Loads of the things my DD 'hated' when she was younger, are now her favourites.

I heard a radio programme once that said it can take 7 introductions of a new food for a baby to accept it and 20 introductions for a child to accept a new taste! it was a long time ago so I've probably misquoted terribly. But you get the idea. Persevere now it's harder when they get bigger.

There seems so much waste but I do intend to keep trying.

Have you tried just eating in front of him and letting him grab stuff off 'your' plate. My LO is more inclined to eat fresh fruit if it's on my plate and he sees me eating it.

16 times.??

I don't make a big deal of it but I simply don't accept 'not liking' from small children. I continue to serve the thing and they might leave it but more often than not they decide they like it after all, sooner or later.

I think most people are far too eager to identify things their children don't like.

My eldest is 6 yrs old and I have recently decided that she genuinely doesn't like cooked mushrooms in any form, no matter how well disguised. That's fine.