Toddler and meals

If your toddler refuses to eat a meal do you let them go without or do you make them something else to eat?
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If she's still hungry I'll put something else on the table with the plate of food she didn't eat still there, I find she sometimes comes back for more sometimes not x

"Eat one more piece and then you can have some..."

I offer everything at once so main meal along with a portion of side veg, fruit and a yoghurt. His choice of what he eats first or if he eats any. I used to offer alternatives which made things worse becuase he knew he would get something different and he was demanding snacks. I always have the same meal with him at the same time and he quickly learned that there will be no alternatives and now it doesn’t happen very often that he doesn’t eat his dinner. Sometimes he eats less sometimes he eats all. It’s just like us sometimes we just don’t feel very hungry

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