Help! DD only eating sweet stuff!
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Topic: Help! DD only eating sweet stuff!
Posted By: catisla
Subject: Help! DD only eating sweet stuff!
Date Posted: 20 April 2009 at 8:45pm
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My DD has never been a big solids eater so far, unless it is something sweet (e.g. fruit, custards, fromage frais).
It is a struggle to get more than about a teaspoon of savoury food down her! On the other hand, you cant shovel the sweet stuff in fast enough Has anyone else had a baby like this who grew out of it and began eating the savoury too? I don't want to store up big problems for when she is older and have a DD that only eats strawberry yoghurt or the such! She didn't eat any savoury again tonight and i didn't give her any pudding (is she already old enough to be playing games and holding out for the sweetness?) she is still drinking plenty of milk (breast and formula) so i am not too worried just yet. She has always been small too, and remains on the 3rd percentile. ------------- |
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Posted By: Daizy
Date Posted: 20 April 2009 at 8:55pm
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I would keep offering the more savoury foods and hopefully eventually she will learn that she needs to eat it.
Keira was the fussiest eater when she was little. Wouldn't eat anything without apple. The only way we could get her to eat would be start with apple and gradually mix in more of the vege. We had to do this right up until she was able to feed herself finger foods. Was a pain but at least she ate. And if you look at her now she will eat anything! ------------- 
 
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Posted By: AandCsmum
Date Posted: 20 April 2009 at 8:56pm
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Try pumpkin or kumara, they are both sweet but good. If she eats them then start adding other non sweet stuff to it & then increase away from the sweet side of the meal.
My DD on the other hand is the opposite way. ------------- Kel http://lilypie.com"> 
A = 01.02.04 & C = 16.01.09 & G = 30.03.12 |
Posted By: kiwikid
Date Posted: 21 April 2009 at 7:50am
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I've had friends get good results from mixing apple/pear with vegies in a 50/50 combo to start or even 70/30 and then gradually dropping the fruit portion as she gets used to the savory flavours. ------------- 
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Posted By: Babe
Date Posted: 21 April 2009 at 1:37pm
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Jake ate savoury but only if there wasn't any sweet stuff available. Plunket got all concerned and told me to stop sweet stuff altogether but I figured it'd sort itself out. I just kept offering savoury and hes a great eater now. Still a sweet tooth but just as good at eating his vege. -------------   
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Posted By: lisa85
Date Posted: 21 April 2009 at 2:40pm
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Hazel and Esme have just started going off their vege and only like sweet stuff. I usually make a bulk mix of pumpkin, kumura, carrot, parsnip, and broccoli to freeze then I get those small packs of watties baby beef and plum sauce and add them to the mix to sweeten the veges up. They love it. Our girls have never been fussy and have always been given a wide variety of food they just suddenly decided to go of vege one day. -------------  
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Posted By: kmarie
Date Posted: 21 April 2009 at 8:55pm
Bethany definitely has her mother's sweet tooth too! We have to *trick* Bethany into eating her veges by putting them on the spoon then dipping the spoon in fruit so it's disguised. We then try it with less and less fruit until she's trying the veges by themselves. The faces she makes can be classic, lol! I tend to stick to one vege mix throughout a day so that each meal it gets more familiar for her. Plus that makes it easy cuz I'm only opening one tin / defrosting one lot of veges a day for her. It doesn't always work but we just keep trying. She's very slowly getting the idea. She LOVES the kumara & sweetcorn watties jar - in fact lately she's gobbled down anything with sweetcorn in it, seems to like it best of any veges she's had so far. (Discovered by accident that the watties potato, pea & broccoli mix has sweetcorn in it - cuz she surprised me by eating it without much complaint!  )
Have fun!  ------------- 
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Posted By: kriss
Date Posted: 21 April 2009 at 9:07pm
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I was about to start a similar thread, SusieC
Though we have only recently started on solids, I have discovered this of my DD over the last few days too. Thanks for the tips everyone, I will try mixing veg with fruit and see how that goes.. ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: catisla
Date Posted: 21 April 2009 at 9:29pm
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Thanks for the all the answers! i will try the fruit mixing too
not to sure about sweet corn as it gives me severe indigestion i was thinking today that my DD does love marmite which obviously isn't sweet so there is hope yet . . . ------------- |
Posted By: busymum
Date Posted: 23 April 2009 at 2:36pm
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My first two girls always liked sweet things. I just used the sweet foods as a base, ie pumpkin or pear-based mixes. (Yes, you can do pear and cauli - why not?) They now eat a well-rounded diet, I would say their sweet tooth is as active as any other kid but they will eat cheese and crackers and meat etc too. ------------- |
Posted By: AandCsmum
Date Posted: 23 April 2009 at 10:05pm
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My DD is a freak....she doesnt' like sweet stuff & still doesn't! ------------- Kel http://lilypie.com">
A = 01.02.04 & C = 16.01.09 & G = 30.03.12 |
Posted By: catisla
Date Posted: 13 May 2009 at 6:32pm
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bump for Laurie ------------- |