Funny eater 😩

This is 100% me! My little boy will try nothing new! He won’t even eat bread or pasta so is Uber frustrating! He eats the little dish or Annabel Karmel ready meals but seems to hate everything we cook.

He starts nursery in January where they provide a cooked meal- so I’m keeping a lot of hope in copying his peers!

Yes I can imagine it must be super hard! What kind of things will he eat for lunch?
My daughter will just want to snack all day and then pretty much refuse dinner but always say she is hungry 😂

Ah yes fingers crossed that helps him to start eating 🤞 They love to copy don’t they☺️

he seems to like sloppy things. So he’ll eat weetabix for breakfast, lunch is a bit dull- mainly fruit snacks, the occasional bit of actual fruit. Then dinner is normally a ready meal but my the pasta-y ones but sometime he will battle that! Mum has him while I work mon-fri and she is a bugger for letting him eat throughout the day 🙄 so sometime dinner is horrendously stressful!

Haha my mum is a nightmare for giving my daughter chocolate and crisps so she comes home and asks for them 😩 Then she has a meltdown because she can’t have chocolate stars in the morning when she wakes up😂

Yeh lunch is full for us as well, just snacks. Grateful my daughter eats some fruits as I feel like that’s the only bit of nutrition she gets 😩

Dinner time is bad for me too, she just screams because she doesn’t want to eat anything!

My nearly 3 year old son is bad with eating too! He's always been like this. He eats the same things every day mainly, he's not interested in trying anything new and gets upset when I put it on his plate. He has toast and peanut butter for breakfast, no lunch just crackers and snack things like ellas veggie sticks and biscuits. He has 2 omega 3 fish fingers with 1 or 2 corn cakes, which have mashed avocado and cream cheese on, and for him to eat veg I mash up a bit of carrot and parsnip and add this to the avocado mix, he seems to like this! It's so stressful and it does make me pretty anxious at times! I have tried to make him a wrap, sandwich thins for nursery which he never touches. I've also added some chunks of cheese to go with his crackers, or some cold chicken and ham, cucumber, some pieces of strawberry, banana , which he also never touches! I nearly always try to add something different most days to his packed lunch box and he never tries it. 🤷‍♀️ xx

Yeah I’m happy that, apart from a chocolate finger (of which mum gives him way too many) he’s fussy with the naughty stuff too!
We are always happy that he loves fruit snacks! X

Seems to be very common!
I always feel so guilty that for lunch she doesn’t really have much but it seems to be common that lunch time consists of snacky bits.

It makes me anxious as well, I also get upset because I want her to enjoy food but instead it causes her to become upset😩

Thank you!

I think it’s a grandparent thing haha 😂
Oh that’s good! X

my other half has started a new job which means coming home later so dinner times will be all on me now 😭

Oh no😩 Sometimes my husband starts work in the afternoon till the night so dinner time is on me too for this week. Been challenging 😂

I hope it gets better for you when he starts nursery! I have herd a lot of people say the eating does improve as they get older 🤞

That’s a good idea, thank you! She eats fruit which I’m happy with but try to get vegetables in her is hard work😂 She some how knows when I’ve tried to sneak them in her food and then decided not to eat.
Ah really, I’ll have a look now ☺️

@Sky me too, I would love it if he would eat a sandwich, he used to but refuses now! It's really hard isn't it. I have bought a tower for the kitchen recently and we have been doing some baking together, which he seems to like and I thought us doing this, it would make him want to try the things we had baked, nope! 🙄 x.

really hard yeh😩
Ah that’s good, my little one would be the same haha unless it’s got chocolate in it she wouldn’t eat anything I bake 😂

Hopefully they all grow out of it soon and start eating well☺️ x

Sorry to ask, what signs is she being checked for autism? I’m curious about my son🫣

Hiya, erm she stims mainly which is where she flaps her hands kind of and opens her mouth when she watches something on tv or watches someone do something she likes. She doesn’t have any awareness of danger, she has no stranger danger haha she will go to anyone, she goes to other people when she hurts herself other than me or her dad, sensory issues like can’t have her hands dirty at all, can’t handle loud noises or lots of people talking. There a lot more things but mainly it’s the stimming that brought it to light by the Health visitor and they believe she is autistic. It runs in my family ☺️

Put the safe food on the plate with everything else! Even if she doesn’t it it’s still an exposure. Try a no pressure approach.

Kids who never are big eaters can still be healthy successful adults so try to decouple her response from your feeling of success or failure! I dated a guy who only had 6 safe foods and it was just one part of his otherwise thriving life.

Thank you! I will give this a try ☺️

My daughter as well. Gladly eat everything at nursery, but when I give her anything at home she just wants to snack. More time she just wants to play and doesn’t want to eat

Heyy I went through this with my nearly 3 year old boy, I got his bloods tested and it turned out he was low on iron. Since he's been on iron medication, his appetite has grown again x