DD1 very fussy, DD2 eats everything, not fussy at all

[Beenleigh]

Still early days for DD2, she's only 7 months, and we're doing mostly blw. I obviously want to try her on loads of the things that DD1 refused, and to get her to try and enjoy as interesting and diverse a diet as possible. Problem is, DD1 is very fussy, it's worth trying her with new things as very occasionally she'll like them, but more often than not, she'll reject anything new, or strange textured and sometimes throw a wobbly.
I don;t know what I should be doing really. I definitely don't want to get in to providing two meals. SOmetimes she won;t eat anything, and stocks up on snacks later in the day, which I know I shouldn't let her do either, but she's hungry. Aaahhhh. What do you do?

We had the same thing, and it actaully encouraged dd1 t otry more.
May have been when she saw the baby eating, she felt she should be the "big girl" and eat it too.
Dd2 is still much more advebturous now and she is 3. Both weaned in the same way.

My two weaned completely differently. DD1, I started introduing solids too early, she was exclusively ff from about 14 weeks, and started giving her purees at about 16 weeks, She was NEVER hungry, never liked the purees, and I never encouraged her to try feeding herself when she started.
DD2 completely different story, (even though only 14 month age gap) I'm so much more relaxed, her first eating experience was a croissant, she has had some mush (not puree) but mostky it's been food she can shove in herself. Also she is still bf at 7 months which I think helps massively.

So what do you do if one chold eats nothing? Do you just let them leave the table without having eaten, or do you give something safe like toast in the event of a rejected meal.

Littlerach, I know what you mean about older one getting better because of younger one eating.