15m & refuses all carbs except bread.....

[oaktree]

so what to do? have tried various pasta shapes including gnocchi. won't eat potato in any form bar chips. are doing BLW as she goes mad at the sight of a spoon so can't get couscous or rice to her either. anyonwe think of anyhting else I can do? TIA

Just relax and let her do it in her own time. She's eating bread great. Ds has never eaten a potato in his life, he just won't try one but he eats other things so it doesn't matter. What sort of things does she eat?

Sorry that didn't come out how I meant it to. I mean relax as in take your time with her she might sense your stress and start turning down food. I think its quite 'normal' for a child her age to be picky, mine certainly was at that age and is a bit still now.

thanks - you're right that relaxing is porbaly teh key _ I just get fed up of offering her different things all the time & none of them ever getting eaten!
breakfast - half a banana adn 5 cheeerios.
refused snack
lunch bread, cheesestick, pear. refued quiche.
tea meatballs cauliflower gnocchii in tomato sauce & plain - refused allthat until sauce put on .........piece of bread.
also we only have wholmeal in teh house - don't really want to start on white bread but am feeling maybe I should.

you dont need a spoon for cous cous or rice as long as you make it clumpy enough to pick up. DS finger feeds himself rissotto on a regular basis.

bread and chips sounds ok to me. not everybody likes pasta.

btw how old is she? white bread is recommended for very young children as their digestive systems can't cope very well with lots of fibre. at least, I'm sure I read that somehwere....

(also agree - you don't have to give rice on a spoon. and we get hours of enetertainment out of watching ds2 pick it up grain by grain )

oaktree I know how your feeling. Ds now 2 has never been a 'good eater'. I started him on solids at 6months but he wasnt interested untill he was about 7months I didnt perposely do BLW but He was never been very interested in mushy food so I have always given him things he can eat himself. He has good days and bad days but still I would say isnt very interested in food, unless its pizza or pasta and cheese. Its frustrating but I know he's eating enough, he's a chubby little thing still so Im not worried.

I have tried ds on wholewheat pasta because thats what I have but he really doesnt like it so I give him white pasat which he loves.

How old is your dd? Could you try giving her a spoon?

Oh sorry says how old she is in title. 15months is prob old enough to start trying to use a spoon. Ds started nursery at 15months old and I can remember being quite suprised because they wouldnt let him eat with his fingers they made him use a fork or spoon. I felt like shouting If eating with his fingers means he eats then let him do it...of course I didnt and he got used to using a spoon andfork in know time.

I'm genuinely confused... all vegetables and fruit (in fact most foods) are made up of carbohydrates.

When dd was first weaned she loved things like avocado, banana, cucumber, pieces of wholemeal bread toasted so she could suck it, strawberries, couscous with a tomato sauce...

Sorry perhaps i didn't make myslef clear - i wa thinking of carbs in teh starchy potato/pasta typesense of teh word not fruit & veg -thankfully there is no problem there. perhaps I just need to make clumpier rice then........ ( how do youdo that excatly?!) adn chill a bit more..........
I've also heard soemwhere bout teh brown/white bread thing..... i think I read that brown bread was Ok as long as everyhting else wsa white....... would bow before anyone elses superior knowledhge though...

oaktree, try using spanish rice, or even pudding rice. they're both good and clumpy.

also have you tried pancakes, flour tortillas and sweetcorn?

oaktree, I wouldn't worry too much about the lack of "carbs" (which I assume you mean grains, right? there are plenty of carbs in fruit, etc). She's prob better off as a lot of the time carbs are filler without as much nutrition (esp if white bread, white rice, etc). Is she eating other things (fruit, veg, etc)? Will she eat beans? Try mixing up with rice and veg -- makes it good and clumpy so can pick it up with hands and shovel it in. That's what dd would do.

There's a fab book called Finger Food by Jennie Maizels that I used a lot when ds was this age.

Your dd might eat fishcakes containing mashed potato. I used to do rice balls for ds. Cook rice, mix with a little home made tomato sauce (with small veg chunks if wanted). Put a teaspoon or two of rice mix into the middle of a piece of greaseproof paper/cling film/foil. Gather the greaseproof paper into a purse shape then twist hard to compress the rice mix into a ball. It should be small enough to put into the mouth whole as it will fall apart quite easily.