23 months - food

quite soon after her first birthday, we started feeding h whatever we ate at mealtimes. before that, we had been more strict with limiting her salt intake and hence had cooked her meals (i.e. porridge) separately. having her eat table food made life much easier for us, but it also meant that we tended to choose eating places/foods that we knew had foods she would eat. we would also avoid ordering spicy foods as it meant she would not be able to share that particular dish.

her preferences for certain kinds of food came through quite early on. 

lucky for us, she loves her veggies (broccoli, all kinds of leafy veggies, cauliflower, carrot, corn ...) and when she first started school the teacher would tell us that they will usually pass all the other kids' veggies to her while taking her portion of meat for others as she wouldn't eat meat. vegetarian baby...

she's also a Chinese/Asian through and through - rice, noodles (bee hoon, mee sua, udon), rice rolls (chee cheong fun) are all up her alley. she doesn't like breads or steamed buns as much. the only time she'll eat bread is if it is a fruit loaf. so no sandwiches for her (which is usually fine since we don't have sandwiches very often). and she slurps down Chinese boiled soups with so  much enthusiasm that both grandmas try to give her soup everyday. sometimes she's a happy camper just with rice and soup plus any veggies that were used to cook the soup. 

she is ok with seafood - steamed fish or prawns. we've had her wallop 4-5 really yummy large prawns at one sitting ... and sometimes she'll have a considerable amount of fish for dinner.

she has quite a discerning palate. she tends to eat more when the food is good. double boiled soups while we are at chinese restaurants for example, and the very al dente udon from ikeikemaru ... also if the texture of the rice is good she also tends to have more.

as for sweet stuff - she likes most fruits (apples, oranges, banana, blueberries, grapes ... ) and will fight with me for cake/muffins when we buy such baked goods. ice cream too.