Peas - and only peas!

[Daffodilly]

DD (11 mths) has just eaten a yogurt pot full of peas for lunch - and NOTHING else. Please tell me good things about peas!

She is driving me to distraction at the moment. I lovingly prepare a variety of foods and she rejects anything she doesn't recognise and fancy without so much as trying it. Not sure how to go about widening her repertoire. I am getting fed up of preparing food to see it thrown on the floor and then spending just as long cleaning the floor.

Not really expecting miracle answers. Just offloading my frustration!

Dont worry about it. As long as she gets variety across a whole week she'll be fine.

My 10 mth old often has peas topped up with yoghurt

are you trying lots of little things? all kinds of berries? little teeny chunks of cheese, raisins.. dd goes through phases of liking things very small. or what about meals with peas mixed in? will she pick them out and maybe get a taste of the other stuff?

like norah's dd, mine also went through a stage of only wanting to eat things with her pincer grip, so try cutting things up. funnily enough, i think i got so used to everythign being big so she wouldn't choke that i rather missed that she was developing beyond that, iykwim? and now that she uses a fork and spoon i'm cutting things up again... makes me feel like a real mum.
and peas are lovely and nutritious, i think you'd be more stressed if the only thing she'd eat is a gregg's sausage roll.

Thank you - as usual a quick reminder that I am not doing half as badly as I feel is really helpful. LOL at the Gregg's sausage roll.... She probably will love these at 15 and I will long for the days when peas were her fav thing.

I think you are right about eating little pieces. She will also (sometimes) eat raisins, sweetcorn, cheese cubes and raspberries . I just get frustrated that I make stuff and she won't even try it. "Just try it" seems to be my mantra!

Funky - peas and yogurt would be DD's idea of heaven!

Off to make baked beans - nice little things she can pick up AND nutritious...

dd used to love little pasta shells at that age, and the good thing is that the filling goes inside them so they're automatically eating the veggies, protein, whatever as well.

My DS is nearly 17mths old and while he will eat everything offered at nursery, when I lovingly offer him my home made chicken curry, shepherds pie etc, he looks at it with a puckered cat's arse face and says no!

The only thing he seems to like at home is pasta stuff so I fill it with different things - cheesy tuna with courgettes, peppers, mushrooms and onions, brocoli bake, ..I do worry he's not getting much variety but at least he's eating something and there is a balance of protein, carbs, veg in there......

Stresses me out though!

quite often dd would prefer 'raw' food to a cooked meal. she has lots of salad plate type meals and crudites. she also really likes just bread and cheese. i honestly just go with it. her body is wanting things raw so it must be what she needs.

I'm pleased to say dinner was a big improvement. She ate my homemade baked beans (made with a mixed beans) - nice pincer grip action again. Followed by baked apple and raisins - the raisins won her over and then she'd accept the spooned in apple.

Hoorah.

I tell you feeding my DD is teaching me the patience of a saint and the ingenuity of... I don't know.. someone very ingenious!