THanks for the brilliant food ideas. Peas and sweetcorn have gone down especially well - he does not eat as much of it as I'd like as the effort takes him longer, but its all progress. I am going to buy a pack of frozen mixed veg and put a (cooked) handful on his tray at each meal. I will let you know if gets eaten or thrown!
I haven't yet tried the broccoli florets or carrot matchsticks as he only has a few front teeth and can't chew properly yet. But I did try grated raw carrot mixed with cream cheese in a sandwich cut into fingers, and that went down well.
I was concerned that now I am concentrating on finger foods his carbohydrate intake is almost exlcusively bread! He used to love mashed potato and other root veg and now its just bread, toast, breadsticks, savoury biscuits and the occassional rice cracker. However, thanks for the tip about slices of boiled potato - I've got some new potatoes in the cupboard & I will try this!
Other things that have gone down well this week (both of which I made for "grown-up dinner" but were also a hit with Oscar):
Salad of brown rice, chopped red bell pepper, sultanas and pineapple pieces with an olive oil and pineapple juice dressing.
Quiche Lorraine made from homemade pastry, eggs, cream, smoked mackarel, chopped apple and spring onion - cut inot bite sized chunks for Oscar.
Lots of mess! But that the way things are.
I've also tried spoonfeeding again to see if it was just a phase but the angry NOs and bowl-throwing started again.
Any more recepie successes for getting some veg into cheeky toddlers welcome!