Santi has always been a good eater. When we started solid foods with him (at 5.5 months old) we were thrilled that he ate any and every puree we put in front of him. When we started giving him more solid food, he gobbled down bread, cheese, yogurt, and then later vegetables (all of them!), fruit, fish, chicken, pasta and ground turkey. Little did we know that when he turned about 11 months old he would decide to become a vegetarian.
Normally when we feed him, we put the food on his tray and let him pick it up and feed himself. Occasionally, if we give him applesauce or yogurt, we'll feed him. Lately, when there's a meat on his tray, he refuses to eat it, eating everything else around it and leaving the pieces of meat. So we have to be creative. What has worked for us is to put the meat pieces IN his applesauce or yogurt. We don't know why this works, because he clearly sees us putting the pieces in there (and has come to like "helping" by putting pieces in himself!) but it does.
If we don't do this, the following video is what happens. I call it the "Santi dance"...he's quite good at it!
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