Alexzander is pretty good in that he will choose fruit over pretty well anything else. He has the occasional chocolate or lolly (well really once a week I'd say) and he has sips of my "fizzy" every now and then (but never coke). He has never eaten processed baby food, but has eaten things like tinned fruit & baked beans etc. At our Christmas party for Mum's Group the other day he had a sip of cordial, but went back to his water for the rest of the day. The other kids who didn't have it semi-regularly (or those that had it every day) just kept going back for more. I think there needs to be a balance, not every day, but not never if that makes sense.

For us though we have an issue... I thought we were doing the right thing, keeping him eating 95% healthy foods, when we went out for dinner I would order his dinner with veges rather than chips & that sort of thing. We've recently found out that Alexzander has Toddler's Diarrhoea, so we *have* to give him more fatty foods. It really is a tough balancing act to try & keep him eating healthy foods, but also to try and counteract the condition.