• Babies can sometimes take up to ten tastes of a new food before they decide to like it so persevere

• Try starting off with sweeter vegetables such as sweet potato, carrots, parsnip, peas and sweetcorn

• Try veggie fruit mixes. They are nicer than they sound and were a big hit with my baby. See my recipe “Homemade Baby Food - Veggie Fruit Mixes” for some ideas. Over two weeks slowly reduce the fruit content and increase the vegetable content until baby is just on savouries. Then begin to add in other savoury flavours to the base vegetable mix they have now grown used to

• Have both a savoury main course and a sweet dessert ready. Offer a spoon of dessert then a spoon of savoury. Next meal time offer a spoon of dessert then two spoons of savoury. Much like the veggie fruit mix this results in the sweet flavour sitting on baby's tongue so making the savoury easier to get used to

• Try savoury foods that you ate a lot in pregnancy. In the middle and later stages of pregnancy baby has developed taste buds and the food you ate flavoured baby's amniotic fluid. This means that some of your favourite foods in pregnancy may also be some of your baby's favourite foods (but lay off the pickles and ice cream).

• If you are using tinned or jars of baby food try switching to homemade food. Pre-packaged baby food can sometimes be really nice but more often than not the savoury foods are just too bland. Maybe baby just wants a bit more flavour.

• Try blended roast dinners with cranberry sauce (just watch out for the salt content in any gravy)

I all else fails give it a break for a week. Babies develop quickly and so do their tastes. What they hate this week they may adore next week. The main thing to remember is not to worry or obsess about your baby not eating savouries. If they are happily eating other sweeter healthy foods then just keep revisiting the savouries once or twice a week until they get used to it.