Meal ideas for fussy 16mth old

[Hunni2]

My DS is still on mashed veges and ground up meat - as he still has a thing about lumps. He eats well I suppose as he loves his mixed veges with meat and chopped pasta or quinoa every night, but I worry its a bit boring.... he has organic veges and nothing with additives so I feel a bit limited at times - and I don't seem to be very imaginative!!!

He has the same few things every day. A sandwich for lunch with cheese and fine tomato, or jam, and yogurt or mashed banana. And I try scrambled egg with toast very few days, which he will eat a bit of. And he doesn't mind pancakes.

The 'healthy' recipe books I have have things like pieces of things like broccoli, snow peas, apples, etc which he just won't eat yet.

Anyone got any ideas to make meals a bit more interesting??????

[TysonsMummy]

My DS (now 15 months) took ages to like eating solids, and whilst he does eat now he seems to gobble some things up and have a 'take it or leave it' attitude with other things.

One dish that he seems to like the best and can happily eat a whole bowl full of (small bowl however), is cauliflower cheese from a baby cook book that I have by Annabel Karmel. Basically it's steamed cauliflower (or I even sometimes add broccoli and zucchini), mixed with a white cheese sauce (flour, butter, milk & grated cheese made up in the usual way you'd make a cheese sauce).

Anyway, there's more recipes in the book that he likes, but that is one of his favourites and is really yummy.

[punkbaby]

if he likes pancakes maybe try making some vegie patties. someone posted a recipe here yesterday and they were so yummy!!

[cath]

He might eat lasagne. My 10 month old loves lasagne (and my 2.5 year old used to until he decided to stop eating dinner at 18 months).