Help! DD only eating sweet stuff!

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.

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.

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.

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!

Edited by kmarie

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 . . .

My DD is a freak....she doesnt' like sweet stuff & still doesn't!