Joel was so so so so bad about eating when he was a baby, I have bad memories of all the work I did to get him to eat haha. I got so tired of it I would just grind his food into powder, pinch some up and force it in his mouth,lol. When it's powdery he can't spit it and had to swallow it. Worked like a charm
He actualy started eating because he knew I was going to keep doing it.