Almost 11m old doesn't eat "proper" dinners

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Ok. DD is just 11m old.
We have done BLW all the way and she can use spoons to feed herself

But now, I've noticed that she doesn't eat food like shepherds pie, chilli, stews etc. A couple of months ago, she would have eaten this food from as preloaded spoon, and fed it to herself.

She seems to have moved on to eating things like porridge with her fingers, rejecting the spoon (that's fine), but still won't touch the types of food mentioned.

She also, just kind of looks at pasta, picks it up and chucks it to one side. Same for carrot batons, broccoli, tomatoes.l, rice etc.

She will eat things like:
Porridge, omelette, toast, sandwiches, chicken pieces, fish, plain corn puffs, celery, savoury flapjack, cucumber, cheese, berries, plums, peaches, sandwiches, houmus, avocado etc

She eats what we eat generally. I don't stress about what she is or isn't doing (although i do say to her, if she doesn't want it, put it on tray,/give to mummy, instead of flinging it across the room 😂)

Should I be worried? I don't want to keep 'missing' meals (or go hungry), so of she doesn't eat the shepherds pie, there's no fuss or cajoling, I just get her down and she might sit on my lap whilst we finish,or she scuttles about the table. And assume she isn't hungry. (She will be given toast or something later. She doesn't starve!)

Shall I do something different? Is there anything to be worried about???

If BLW is restricting - instead of expanding - the range of food she will eat, maybe you can try other things.
In France, we don't differentiate between finger or spoon. We would teach a child to eat with a spoon the food we as adult would eat with a spoon, so porridge, soups and fingers for croissants, fruits, (but porridge with fingers, why?). We also use forks from the very beginning for pieces of meat, fish.

Try a fork, and maybe offer from your plate. However I would avoid offering toast or similar after a refusal, because kids would then expect a sweet tasting (toast bread tastes sweet) replacement/

Try tasty soups, risottos with pumpkin, zucchini, meatballs in tomato sauce with pea, so that every thing that is offered has veggies.

I agree this is normal. She still eats a good variety of food so no need to panic. Keep offering her a range of foods, exactly as you are doing.

My DD didn't even touch food at 11 months, she just chucked it all on the floor or ignored it. I think it's very normal and your child's diet sounds very varied if you compare it to a child in the 1950s! Berries, humois, avocado etc.

All the foods you mention seem like dinner time main meals, could it be more of a timing issue and she's not hungry/fussed later in the day and prefers her breakfast and lunch time meals? 12 month old DD has always loved dinner but until very recently has been much less interested in breakfast and lunch, whatever she is served.

@LeGrandBleu she can eat from a spoon,just recently she just won't for some reason. I still give her the spoon and food loaded on it

Ds went through phases of eating and not eating things, we did blw all the way with him. Sometimes he just didn't have the appetite or was tired or teething. We just kept putting food down in front of him, and now at almost 3 years old, he will eat most things, although he's becoming picky about some veggies. he still got formula before bed at that age so we knew he wasn't going without if he didn't eat much dinner.

Try a fork and also let her spoon herself. I would suggest reducing the finger food. I personally don't really think blw works on its own, it was a combination with mine which meant they took a spoon from me as well as picking up food