I'm so over feeding my toddler. he wont even try things anymore. If he decides he doesn't like the smell or look of it, or for whatever reason, he just has a tantrum in his high chair and wont open his mouth. I try reasoning with him - just have one mouthful and then you can get down - but nothing.

I try everything. Leaving it on the coffee table for him to pick at as he plays etc etc. I don't feel he can live on his 2 favourite foods - baked beans and a jar of pumpkin pilaf. I make him hamburgers and fill them with vegies - spag bol, chicken risotto. All things he used to eat, and now it is pot luck. One day he will the next he wont. I can offer him 4 choices of a night and finally he will eat, but I can't do that every meal. he has even gone off fruit a bit which he used to love.

He is well, sleeping through, not on any bottles. Eats breakfast well- 2 weetbix or a bowl of oats, but it is downhill from there. He never tells/shows me he is hungry so I try and feed him at the same time of day like they say. We started to wonder whether he was eating too much breakfast, therefore not hungry for lunch......
What do I do, just leave him with no dinner or just a yoghurt, they say they wont starve, however I have an 18mth old on the 10% for weight and I have been told to up his food by 20% but at the moment he has downed it by about 50%.

Sorry this has turned into a ramble and I really just needed to vent.

I hope this is a short phase and he starts to try things at least again.

today he ate
Breakfast - 2 weetbix
Morning tea - some oatmeal pancake 6 small bitesize pieces
Lunch - bowl of baked beans
Dinner - small sachet of rafferties spinach, brocoli and apple mix
Water
I consider today a bad day