Does anyones 2 year old eat their meat & vegies!?? How?

[Netty]

What frustrates me is going to all the effort to make something with hidden goodies and then they wont eat that either. So frustrating!
My DD goes through fazes, one week she will love something and then next week she wont eat it. If I give her something she likes too often she goes off it too. Its hard. She wont eat peas but she loves to 'pop' them between her fingers She spends alot of time ginning about playing with her food to try and avoid eating stuff, its weird. Must just be a 2 year old thing, part of the 'I can say no' and all that... half the time DD says no when she really means yes... grrr

[Just Me]

Hi Jac -

Don't know if I can help much as I haven't had this problem (yet . . . I really hope I get to avoid it but I think DS may be heading that way). Sounds to me like you are doing everything that I have read you should do - continue to offer foods and don't make a fuss. I think you are doing a good job and hopefully your DS will start eating a variety of foods again.

I don't know if it helps much but I bought a book called Deceptively Delicious and it uses vegetable purees to make all sorts of foods including biscuits, slice, pancakes and so on. I really like it - I enjoy the food myself - but if you are worried about your DS not having enough veg in his diet, maybe he might eat other foods that have puree in them. The book says you still need to give vegetables as vegetables so that the kids get used to it.

I thought I would put the suggestion out there and see if it helped you at all . . . GL