I'm sorry, I am starting this thread in sheer frustration and can see it turning into a rant...but a the title suggests...I dread every mealtime with my Dd who is 18 months.
She has never been a great eater, did a combination of blw and a bit of puréed food in the early days, which I found hard work due to constant refusal of what I had made, but I think somewhere in the back of my mind I stupidly though "it will get better".
It hasn't!!! And I have no idea what to do. I am so tired of trying to think of meals she may like/try/throw at floors and walls!!
Breakfast is fine, bran flakes, weetabix, scrambled eggs...were happy with this.
Lunch is usually a cheese or ham sandwich in brown bread, a few cheddars, a banana, raisins, chunks of cheddar. Boring and so samey but out of ideas!! I usually have some sort of pasta but she will not touch this at all...today's wasted portion was Italian chicken pasta.
Main meal is a nightmare...basically unless its fish, boiled ham or sausages, yorkshire pudding or roast potatoes it is wasted. Sweet potato and a few carrots, perhaps maybe a pea or two is all the veg I can get down her. Followed by her only other piece of fruit which is melon. I try giving her a yoghurt if she eats really well as a treat to reward her too. If she doesn't eat what I offer her I don't pander and do something different, that's it.
I have offered either blueberries, cherry tomatoes, grapes and fresh pineapple umpteen times recently with every meal, but none have passed her lips.
She goes to nursery once a week and apparently eats really well there, veg tikka, veg lasagne etc. also her Aunty tells me how well he eats there every week and I just feel like a total failure!!
How can I encourage her to try new foods and stop dreading the battle at the table?!
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Poppins27 · 28/08/2013 18:56
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