Really struggling with meals

There is a company called EllaOla that sells multivitamin supplements in powdered form so that picky eaters and/or anyone with a food aversion can still get necessary nutrition. You could try this while still trying to offer a balanced diet. It's very normal for children, especially toddlers to be particular about food. It can also take like a dozen times of introducing a new food for them to accept it, especially if the taste/texture/etc. is really different from what they're used to. Plus their appetite changes day to day depending on if they are going through a growth spurt or not.

Have you always offered different foods everyday? The best hack I’ve heard of is sneaking it into soup sometimes even blended 😅

I always would serve my child their plate and if they refused to try it, I would eat a bite of it and then try again. Hit or miss but worth a shot!

I feel this!! My 18 month old eats a very limited diet of bred, fruit, sometimes dairy and sometimes veggies. And it’s not for lack of trying. We give him everything we eat and he refuses it. It has left him and I in tears many many times recently. .. my best advice is see breaths and remember to keep offering / modelling yourself eating the new or unliked foods. Somedays my son will eat everything, some days he will eat nothing. I keep telling myself that he is not starving and he does in fact eat when he wants too so to just try to be patient with him and give myself grace for the situation!

I have the same issue with my now nine-year-old. She has been a picky eater ever since she started eating. I used to sneak veggies in her food for example she used to love mac & cheese so when she was young, I would take a butternut squash, baby food pack, and put it into the mac & cheese, and she couldn’t tell the difference and I was able to get her to eat veggies that way. I would also make apple zucchini muffins. And I would sneak veggies into her fruit smoothies. I used Pinterest a lot for ideas on how to sneak veggies into other foods.