My little girl is becoming vastly progressive with her toleration for foods, or rather her intoleration for some foods. We have a very basic foods strategy which is make sure she tries as much as possible within reason and hopefully she will like it, I think there is too much pressure on both parents and child to like all the things that they give!

So what are some tips that I have found work for us when you have a 10 month old who thinks all food is not equal and will eat what she likes.

• Offer a variety of different food’s
• Keep them on a particular food for a few days so that they know what they like and don’t like
• Fibre comes from fruits, vegetables, breads and cereals
• Children do like fat in their diet and burn it off quicker then adults do
• Water is a great thirst quencher at all meals – avoid fruit juice and carbonated water drinks
• From 12 months on children can drink cows milk or toddler milk.
• “If its green make sure it cant be seen” – I put spinach and broccoli into lots of my veges and just make sure she can’t see them they are mashed in together.
• Citrus should be avoided until they are over 1 years of age the acid in them will be unappealing by most children
• Children need iron in their diet so make sure if your giving veges give meat or fish to make sure your giving them “brain food”

I know its not always easy to find food to give to your baby but start with as many veges as possible and go from there!

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