14mo still not that interested in finger food - any suggestions?

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DS was weaned on purees and still prefers mashed food, even though I've been offering bits of finger food along side the mush for ages. - In fact he's even less interested now in them. he will eat cheerios/shreddies as finger food, toast, rusks, melba toasts, but not interested in fruit or veg or anything else.

Does anybody have any suggestions? TIA.

I think you'll have to take the bull by the horns and only offer finger foods for at least one meal a day.

How about mush for breakfast and evening meal and finger food only for lunch? You could try strips or cubes of ham, cubes of banana, raisins, grapes cut in half, cheese, marmite on toast.

My DS is 18 months and has only just started making the effort to pick food up and eat it - he'd still much rahter I shovelled it in for him, lazy monkey!!!!

If he'll eat proper food from a spoon, ie not all mashed up, then I don't think it's a problem, his independent streak will kick in when he's ready!

But if he will only eat mashed foods then you may have to do what modernart said.

thanks both, that's helpful, I'll do that on the days he's home with me. he's at nursery 3 days a week, and they still give lumpy mush to babies his age, so maybe I'll ask them to start giving the tea for the toddler group instead, which is sandwich-y type things - he might just eat it better with them, and once they go onto finger food there, they tend to offer it earlier, say 3.3o, so I could then maybe give him a snack when we get home too.
cheers.