baby only eating sweet foods?

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Hi everyone, my little girl loves her porridge and fruit purees but will not eat anything savoury, even the sweet vegetables, she screws up her nose and spits them out! Is it because she is still little, will this change with time? Don't want her to be a fussy eater if I can help it! Xx
 
From the looks of it, she's quite young, so I wouldn't be worried. I'm assuming you're pureeing then, in which case, if you taste them, they probably don't taste very nice to grown-ups either. Just keep offering her a wide variety of foods and once she's old enough (6+ months), normal foods that you eat as finger foods. Once she tastes real food, she'll get a big more adventurous with tastes. It's also quite possible she isn't feeling well or is going through a phase where she has a preference for certain things. My daughter eats everything and has since 6 months (roast beef, jacket potatoes, quiche, smoked salmon, you name it, she'll try it), but when she's sick or teething, she really only wants fruit, porridge and yogurt. Once she feels better again, she's back to eating normal food. So expect there will be phases of only wanting certain things, but she's still little yet, so more than likely you just need to give her time until she can eat tastier savoury foods and then she'll love them.
 
Our baby is doing baby led weaning but also prefers sweets (fruits). If he has five items on his tray he will eat the fruit first.

One thing that helped him eat other things is to use spices. For example, he really enjoys squash (I buy diced squash freezer bags and I microwave a few pieces at a time) and I sprinkle it with cinnamon to give it more a 'sweet' flavor. he loves cinnamon sprinkled on sweet potato chunks as well.

Also he prefers spices added to other things. he didn't want to eat his avocado for example, but after I added garlic powder to it he liked it.

Maybe your little one just wants something extra? At least the cinnamon might we worth a try to get some veggies down. I'm sure cinnamon would work on carrot too.
 
You also can mix fruits and vegetables together to make them more palatable. I know some people poo-poo "hiding" vegetables, but as long as you're upfront about them being there when your kids are older, they aren't exactly hidden. Babies can tell the difference in taste between straight apples and apples and carrots. Most of the vegetables we eat in this house are mixed into other food, I don't see why baby can't have it the same way.
 

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