Hey I’m a first time mom and my 11 month old refuses almost any food that’s not fruit or sweet in any way. It has been stressing me out so badly because i know she is not getting all of the nutrition she need. does anyone know how to help?
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She’ll get hungry enough to eat it. Otherwise, you’re going to spoil her. Remember, you are the parent.
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Are you seasoning their non sweet foods? If not, you should. Your little one could be like my youngest, won’t touch anything bland.
My oldest was like this so I started mixing in half of a vegetable with a fruit and it worked tricked him into eating the veggie slowly over time I would mix less of the fruit in with the vegetable and eventually he would eat the vegetable one by themselves. Although I did this when he was younger might be harder if your baby is already eating solid food lol
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I always fed my child the jar veggie foods first and then fruit after
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You should always first with vegetables. Introduce one new vegetable each week. After you have done that then you should introduce fruits.
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You started with fruit purée right?
You can put sugar on tomatoes and cucumbers. Honey ham is sweet. Some cheese is savoury. Hugs. Just keep trying and for the next four months keep the junk out of your house. If you could eat a chocolate bar instead of broccoli and nobody said a word you would. It’s human nature to eat yummy food before good food and you have to cut it out of your diet to keep it out do their diet. Sorry mama. I couldn’t have anything sweet for a long time. My daughters even though soda crackers and ritz crackers were cookies.
Your bad. Oops.
Also adding cheese to stuff makes it better. Hugs.
They say it takes introducing foods seven times for a kid to like it. As someone said, add sweetener (maple syrup, honey, molasses, fruit juice, agave nectar, —use granulated sugar as a last resort) to puréed or regular vegetables (depending on age/stage of child) then lessen the amount over time.
Acorn, pumpkin & butternut squashes can be sweet, and you can add cinnamon and nutmeg. Your baby may prefer sweet potatoes over white. Glazed ham, pork & bacon are sweet & beef cooked with apricots or in apricot jam can be a nice combination. Sweet & sour chicken is another option. Just keep reintroducing healthy foods. Over time your child will get used to them. My mom would serve shrimp bisque out of a can & put in a tablespoon of sherry. I think that’s the only reason I ate it as a kid!
Reminds me of a poem my parents would recite:
“I eat my peas with honey,
I’ve done it all my life.
It makes the peas taste funny
But it keeps them on my knife.”
Baby carrots. But not too many or baby will take on an orange color. They were my favorite when I was a baby and my mom said she freaked out when I turned orange cause she fed them to me everyday because I loved them 
Stop giving sweet food then. Children will of course prefer that and since she’s still a baby, she cannot be ‘‘reasoned’’ with.
Food before 1 is just for fun! She should be still getting the majority of her nutrition from milk! Just keep trying new foods all the time and expecting that she only play with them to explore texture and taste. As she gets older past her first birthday she will get more interested in solids and will take in less milk
Let her try everything. There is nutritional value in fruits and vegetables alike. Its all fine. Follow pages like Kids Eat in Color , Solid Starts , and Feeding Littles for evidence based nutritional information.
Thats why you start veggies first, then fruit/sweets. Stop giving it to her, she will get hungry enough to eat something else
Baby food, try the baby food pouches, they have better flavors and mix veggies, fruits and proteins which most kids enjoy. If you haven’t tried table food that could also help, most kids enjoy protein and veggies better not as baby food.