Ok here's the situation! For the past 7 or 8 months DS (2yrs, 2mths) has become soooooooo fussy with his eating. Prior to this he would eat practically anything so long as it was mushed up. Since then his daily diet (i mean EVERYDAY) has been
3 weetbix for breakfast
a whole avacardo and a yoghurt for lunch
2 scrambled eggs and a banana for dinner
snacks are only dry cruskits, fruit bars and the occassional sweet biscuit or chocolate at grandparent's houses.
He has ABSOLUTELY refused to eat anything outside of this, despite me frequently offering him a plate of whatever we are eating alongside his scrambled eggs.
Until now i have been fairly relaxed about it. He is growing well, and i figure he'll eat properly eventually... A couple of years ago i probably would've said "well if he's hungry, he'll eat!" thinking that if the eggs weren't an option, eventually he'd eat what is avaliable. I have started to doubt this theory!! He was BF'd until about 3 months ago so i didn't worry too much about the nutritional side of things until he weaned.
Now the past few days he has started refusing his avarcardos and scrambled eggs This means his only savoury foods are weetbix and cruskits in a day. I'm also starting to think that his lack of trying different textures etc is delaying his speech development slightly. And besides all of that I AM SO OVER COOKING SCRAMBLED EGGS EVERY DAY!!! I think also now that he is ready and understands enough to comprehend that he has to start eating 'big kid' food. He eats no meats, won't even try cheese, or even hot chips or anything most kids would love - we go to birthday parties and he won't even try fairy bread or cakes!! He also won't drink anything but water (i've tried milkshakes, juices etc).
In 3 months he'll have a baby brother or sister and life would be a whole lot easier (for me) if DS would eat properly!
So, DH thinks we need to start a scrambled egg ban...! I am with him, but my issue is ... what to do if (and it's more likely a 'when') he refuses what we eat. I'm not really comfortable in starving him!! But i also understand the need to be consistent - there's no point in telling him he can't have a banana until he's eaten at least a couple of spoons of his dinner, and then an hour later giving him a banana without him eating anything else (this was nearly the scenario this evening - in the end he's gone to bed having eaten only a cruskit for dinner).
It's exhausting and frustrating and i don't know really where we went wrong. He was having a very varied diet and no problems eating until 7 or 8 months ago.
Has anyone got any advice or suggestions? Could really use some fresh ideas!!