Hi OP, v impressed by the variety your "fussy eater" eats ; )

I think we do tend to forget just how little many children need to eat and get tied up in knots with trying to get then to eat something to make US feel better.. Children also naturally seem to want to consume a relatively small range of foods, isn´t this some kind of ingrained human response and to be accepted?

I disagree you shouldn´t serve up foods you know your lo doen´t enjoy on a couple of levels..

1. YOU are sending the message that you agree with your child that that food is not good, do you want to do this?

2. >ou´re not giving your lo the opportunity to develop NEW tastes, which they should be doing, constantly if at their own speed.

Of course, broccoli etc could be served separately, but I don´t think it should come off the menu if you like it!

If I was you I would not worry for your very lucky your dc is eating all those foods my ds4 is very very fussy for only eats:

cherios,toast,pasta,rice,chips,yogurt,cucumder,
apple,olives,half a meatball, jaffa buscuits and milk

so pls dont worry your doing a great job
I look forward to reading this thread for I dont know how to approach tried so many methods

Anyone????

bump

Sorry to be so long-winded and thanks to the OP and apologies for hijacking your thread!

Bouncing this because mine really is a fussy eater...I am going back to work 3 days/week next week and trying to do a meal plan. My mum will be doing some of the childcare so I need to have stuff in the freezer she can get out and do quickly. DS is nearly 4, coeliac and will eat, (gluten free of course) pasta with pesto and bolognese (both of which I make and freeze with lots of 'hidden' veg in bolognese yadda yadda), gnocchi with pesto-again I make the flipping gnocchi but is a faff, salmon in the form of home-made fishfinger type things or fishcakes, meatballs with tomato sauce and GF spaghetti, rice with beef stew, plain grilled chicken(marinated with garlic and yoghurt) only if
bribed encouraged with home-made oven chips. used to eat GF sausages now 'gone off' them, used to like risotto, again now 'gone off' risotto, roast chicken dinner. No vegetables other than sweetcorn unless hidden in sauce stew (again used to have carrots and peas but now-no to carrots and peas. Hates mash. Hates omelettes/tortilla. Will eat home-made pizza but again a bit of a faff when working especially as neither DS or I eat it.
Will eat apples grapes satsumas blueberries but no other fruit. Oh and a cheese sandwich/roll with GF bread and butter but nothing else. No houmous, no ham, no cream cheese no peanut butter.
Oh and of course GF cake is always acceptable home-made or otherwise. But not savoury muffins. Oh no.
The baby, who is 10 months old, will eat anything bless her and usually gets either what he's having or our leftovers although no doubt she will get picky later on.

I know I know I know-he is probably getting enough nutrition but I am desperate to broaden his tastes so I can cook more stuff that we can all eat,even if not at the same time, and would prefer not to spend so much time coating little bits of fish and chicken in crushed cornflakes.

So my question is -if you have a fussy eater or experience of fussy eaters (friends kids cousins etc) what is your fail safe preferably home made,preferably freezable or easy to prepare meal?

Thanks migola - i do now. Anyway, the thread wasn't really supposed to be about that, i stupidly used the word fussy, all i wanted were some more ideas of what we could eat using the stuff dd will eat!

Caprica you don't know how lucky you are!! I wish my DD would eat even a fraction of what your Dd does!

Oh baiyu that is great! I'm so gald someone is trying one of my recipes!

Hopw you have a great day!!

Fussy eaters don't like recipes.

However, your daughter doesn't sound fussy - she sounds like a child, as opposed to a 38 year old administrator. This is a perfectly normal diet for a child.