getting fussier

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My 14.5 month old is getting less and less willing to eat variety. She will just leave new things, cry it spit them out. She eats weetabix, toast with marmite or honey sometimes, raisins, sandwiches with cheese and tomato or cucumber, sometimes ham. Yoghurt and fromage frais for dinner she will have pasta, rice, plain chicken, plain fish, sausage, courgette, broccoli, mashed potato, peas, fish pie which is made with a creme fraiche and mustard filling, she sometimes will eat risotto with leek and chicken. For fruit banana, grapes, occasionally satsuma or orange. She refuses all attempts at red meat or any other fruits. Is this enough variety? She drinks whole milk twice a day

It's totally normal for them to get fussy around this age. I'm no expert but I think that sounds like a reasonable mixture of food groups. The River Cottage cookbook (which has a great section on fussy eating) is reassuring on this issue: "Even if the number of different ingredients is limited, they're probably getting all the major food groups (I.e. toast, yogurt, banana and fish fingers isn't a bad range, nutritionally speaking)."

Do keep offering foods that have been previously rejected, perhaps alongside some familiar food. You never know when they'll be willing to give them a try again.

Cornish thank you. It does seem reading it back that she'll eat quite a good mixture of food groups, so I guess as long as she's getting the nutrients then it's not the end of the world. I even keep trying spaghetti bolognese as every child I've met likes it - except mine! I'll keep offering at a later date, just don't want to allow her to become fussy if poss