Nutritionist, Helen Riley offers advice to help get your little one exploring new foods and flavours. ‘Peeled, cooked and mashed apples and pears are popular first foods, as their natural sweetness appeals to babies’ taste buds,’ says Helen Riley

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along with everything else...present the new food in large quantities. Offer your toddler a taste, and if he does like it, then he can always have some more...mix a new food in with an old favourite - chances are your toddler will reject them both

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