I need help with my 4 year old.

My 4 yr old went from eating everything to eating nothing. Or she used to devour pasta with meat sauce and now she only wants buttered noodles 🤦🏻‍♀️ We’ve cut out snacks in the afternoon and moved dinner up earlier if she’s hangry. There’s still some nights where she won’t eat a ton but we’ve started giving her kids shakes that have protein, veggies and stuff in them on the nights she won’t eat much. I’m hoping it’s a phase

I had to stop giving my daughter snacks until after dinner she has to eat a good amount of dinner like 25-50% to get snacks it depends on the meal

We've moved up dinner time to like 4:30-5 and I get my kids involved in meal planning, grocery shopping, etc. It gets them more excited most days. My son woke up this morning and first thing he said was "my turn for dinner today? Nachos right?" 😅
My 4yo is the hungry hungry hippo so when I pack him lunch in the morning I double whatever I'm making and save half for when he gets home. He'll eat that and a snack and be good until dinner. Otherwise it's "I'm hungry" every 10 minutes after you've given him one of everything. Lol

Same. Drop all snacks

We don’t give snacks at least 2-3 hours before dinner. That usually helps but Sometimes he still won’t eat much. If he doesn’t eat his plate of food, he doesn’t get dessert. I leave it up to him to decide from there.

Neither of my kids have been big dinner(super)eaters at this age, they’ve both preferred a later small-medium sized breakfast, larger lunch & about the same for dinner as they did for breakfast. It’s only weird to me bc I’ve never eaten breakfast, no to tiny lunch, then full dinner. Everyone is kinda different in their eating needs, so as parents it’s best to try writing down everything(meals & snacks) they eat for a week or two & calculating it all as a whole & compare it to what they should be getting of things like protein, fiber, vitamins, minerals etc
In my experience it’s always been about spot on, even if they don’t necessarily get those things every day, their body may only want them every other day or something. I’m one of the minorities in their 40’s who never endured a “clean your plate” rule, still today I eat exactly what I want when my body craves it. I prob ate breakfast like twice last year, lunch maybe 6x’s, I’m not a snacker, I’m still meeting my nutritional needs.🤷🏻‍♀️