Cooking dilema .....

[Lindsay]

Jacob has been eating solids from being 24 weeks and on the whole it's going really well.

He is having half a weetabix and a bottle for breakfast which is no problem at all but then comes the dilema - he only seems to like sweet potato and refuses point blank to eat anything else. I have a freezer of cooked food cubes but he won't eat anything. Carrot can be hit and miss, turnip is a no no, chicken is ok if it's pureed with sweet pot, won't eat fish, refuses to even open his mouth to courgette I have been giving him sweet potato for lunch with a form of fruit for afters (mango is his firm favourite) and then struggle with tea time. I bought some petit filous on Sunday and have given him one of them for his tea, Sunday and Monday and he polished it off great, even got upset when it was all gone!! But I know I can't keep giving him the same thing every day.

I really want to give him home cooked food but I can't keep cooking for him to not eat it - I wouldn't mind cooking if he was really enjoying it but I would rather be spending the time with him than wasting my time in the kitchen.

What should I do? Do I buy him some jars and see if he takes them or do I keep trying him with my cooking? Honest girls, my cooking is not bad

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[Em78]

he he i'm sure its not your cooking hun!

maybe try mixing everything with some sweet potato then gradually reducing the amount of it in there till its mainly all the parsnip or carrot etc? dont worry about cooking up any other stuff for a bit - use what you have to mix with the sweet potato. parsnip was always a fave with alex and he loved it with sweet potato.

otherwise jars are fab for finding things they like. i often grab some jars to give him different tastes then try to do something similar at home.

alex likes the hipp organic range and the heinz mums own range (that one in particular has some really tasty and different ones. have to admit to stealing the odd spoonfull my self!

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[Urchin]

Yeah I'd say mix everything with sweet potato at first then gradually change the mixes so he goets used to it.

Well done for making your own food, fingers crossed he likes it soon!

 

[tracyM]

Dan had a thing about banana - we mixed it with other things and gradually reduced the amount of banana like the others suggested - chicken and sweet potato sounds a lot nicer than chicken and banana

 

[Bagpuss17]

I have the same problem with Isaac. He loved the first tastes such as carrot and sweet potatoe and he adores apple and pear.

New tastes since then have been met with resistance but I do as the others have suggested and mixed the new veggies in with his faves until he gets used to them. It's worked so far. Got to try mixing pear in with papaya tomorrow.

I give him a jar of something now and again as a treat and for a change but so far he's mainly having home cooked foods.

Tried him on weetabix this morning and he was having none of it. Not sure what to do about that one, can't really mix that in with pear!