Bethany has been fussy with her food again and I tried another tactic which worked for a short while. This is not a method I would recommend but she started doing it herself so I carried it on. After a few mouthfuls of cauliflower and broccoli cheese (without the cheese! - none left so I made parsley sauce) she refused any more and so we gave her a chocolate dessert. Whilst feeding her this she started dropping bits of vegetable into the chocolate jar and fishing them back out. Inspired by this I started coating bits of cauliflower in the chocolate and she happily ate it although the choco-broccoli was not so successful. This was not necessary for her tea but I did have to prepare about three meals so that after she had picked at all the bits and pieces she had just about managed a meal. The tray from the high chair looked like an explosion in a restaurant with bits of stew, fishfinger, bread and apple strewn all over.