Eating….

My son eats so poorly at home compared to at nursery. Safe foods and snacks he will inhale without issue, but they are not varied. But I'm also pregnant with number 2 and I do not have the mental capacity to handle the meltdown and fallout if I don't give him foods that he will eat. Like if he doesn't eat dinner, he will be up all hours of the night wanting to breastfeed. And frankly I just can't. So he gets the beige foods. One friend said to me "parent the child in front of you" and thst helped me a lot, because looking at the big picture - does it matter if he eats pasta in a veggie sauce 4 times a week and chicken nuggets every lunch time every weekend, if he's ultimately happy and not feeding off my own stress? Also knowing that they go through periods of needing more or less food, and that looking at their nutrition over a whole week rather than on a daily basis helps.

Perhaps try changing up where you sit for lunch. Put out a blanket and have a teddy bears picnic, serve a plate to each of her toys

(Sorry, I waffle) - she might be more interested if you make it "fun". Imagination is a wonderful tool for kids this age I find. The other day my husband kept telling our son that a piece of cereal out of his bowl was his favourite, and then he would put it down and our son ate it, giggling at the "cheekiness" of it. He ate a bowl full of Daddy's favourite cereal that way 🤷🏼‍♀️

Uhm have you tried using those reusable bento box toothpicks with different drawings ? Or cute plates? Different shapes of Little molds for the rice or you can mix the rice with whatever food you have then mold it to small shapes or balls?

1. Make castle using slices of cucumbers or carrots
2. Use batons of carrots and he can use the rice molded like a ball to roll and hit the carrots

Etc.. ❤️

Does she bit eat at all if you cook what she doesn't want or do you give her something else?