Toddler getting jealous over sibling?

The past couple weeks, my daughter has been super jealous when it comes to my son. (Hes 7 months she’s 2 years old) like if he’s eating something she’ll throw a fit and say “me me me” wanting what he’s having which I can understand but it’s also when my fiancé or I are you know
Playing with him or giving him the slightest bit of attention she gets all mad and tries to step in or you know throw a fit. Like I can understand why she would feel jealous. I’m just confused and why she feels jealous now and didn’t feel jealous when he was first born. is anyone else going through this? my fiancé told me not to give into it, especially with the food thing where she throws a fit over the food, not give it to her cause it’s his and she needs to learn that, but I don’t want her feeling left out, I already feel guilty enough about having a second baby so close to her and I didn’t really get to give her a chance of being a only child which I know sounds so wrong, but I do feel guilty about that. But don’t get me wrong. She loves her brother! she plays with him every day. I just think now that he’s starting to like play with stuff and move around and eating food now too. It’s starting to really like make the jealousy come out

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Try giving her and him some of the same food at the same time? Unless you're giving baby food still. And then when playing play with them both, find something super simple that you guys can do together. Little activities like finger painting with the paper inside a Ziploc bag zipped up and maybe that will help

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We're going through the same thing with toys. She isnt always happy about it but consistency is important. They're allowed to be upset, just explain to her why it is that way, that hwr feelings are okay and offer an alternative

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