Sam is almost 22 months and rarely uses a fork, never uses a knife and only uses a spoon for yogurt. The problem comes from the fact that he's been feeding himself finger food from a very young age - around 8 months. We never really went through that stage where he starts to take the spoon from me because a spoon was hardly ever around. He was busy self-feeding. We stopped with the purees stage very early on. Now I put a fork out and model using a fork myself but he just eats with his fingers - pasta, meat, fish, vegetables, fruit - everything. We don't really have dessert apart from fruit so the morning yoghurt is the only time he really needs to use a spoon which he does reluctantly.
Can you think of any clever ideas to get him more of a cutlery fan? I'm not desperately worried but I feel I should encourage it. His little mates sit there with their forks and Sam looks like a caveman (a very cute one). Any good menu ideas for food that you really have to use cutlery for and he'll want to try?