Frustration over food

Mmmm Google ARFID, one of mine I’m 99% sure has it. She didn’t hot lunches eat at nursery though, she ate the odd thing at the childminder that she wouldn’t at home and drank milk at nursery out of desperation.

Maybe it’s normal toddler fussiness but sometimes it’s not. Mostly the advice is not to make mealtime a battle

My daughters the same and Im past stressing about it now.

She eats what she will eat at home, ill try and encourage her to have a new thing but if she doesnt eat it then she doesnt eat it.

At nursery she is having a fully balanced diet, at home im happy that shes just eating.

Its a phase, I hope.

We’ve had spells of this too on and off.
For us as Jayde says, has been phases.
I re introduce foods a lot Egs she’s now back on to Quorn cocktail sausages - something she had started to refuse.
She defo has her preferences tho.
If she could live off halloumi she would 🤣

I had a phase of this, nursery reassured me it was a lot because they just see other kids eating and eat the same. We made sure we all sat down together at dinner and ate the same meal consistently, didnt really offer anything else, but would cave for cereal but much later if we thought he'd be hungry and after a week or so he just went back to eating whatever we gave him, pretty much, there is of course the odd refusal and the odd fussy evening!

Just keep exposing them to everything even if they’re not touching it, that’s what I found has worked best for my little girl. She’s gone off meat for about 6 months, chicken, mince, pork, wasn’t interested for the longest time but we always made sure she had some on her plate. One day a few weeks ago she picked up a rib and has been back to eating all sorts of meat again, just out of no where. We’ve had a similar experience with strawberries, my mum made a cake and my girl picked out all the strawberries, wouldn’t touch them, we got home 2 days later and dad was eating a bowl of cut up strawberries and she took the bowl, finished everything and asked for more 🥴 just keep trying

We try to just switch up the accompanying food which seems to work. She started to hate spaghetti and would never eat spaghetti bolognaise so we started giving her the mince on a jacket potato and then she’d eat it. Now she’s back to liking spaghetti🤦🏽‍♀️