Food fussiness - Will it go away?

[YoYo]

I'm not going to fight it either....some things he says are downright funny....like "cheese, it's too tasty" Ha!

I do the ravioli thing, and yeah, lately he has said he wants the pasta but with no sauce....but will eat Tomato sauce like it's going out of fashion too!

He will eat an apple (the other day he ate the ENTIRE thing....core included) but I had to take the skin off first.

The chocolate cupcakes with veggies in them is a great idea....I have a recipie for that...must find it!

[deletedit]

We have to cut apples into 'apple chips'. That's quarters cut into thirds or quarters again for a big apple. Apparently things taste different if they are cut up different.

[Erin_25]

I agree with not turning it into a fight. I wouldn't say my DS is fussy, he just knows how to push the boundaries and knows what he want's (that's junk food) so he refuses other stuff in a hope to get what he wants. I offer a plate of dinner up every night, but most nights he doesn't eat, other nights he will eat it all & shock us completely, but the main thing for me is that he sits up with us and gets the idea of what dinner time is about. During the day I try to make it fun, like a picnic outside with pear and apple...that has worked. He's the same at Daycare, I can pack anything and it gets eaten, I also make most things, biscuits, cakes etc so I know what's going into what he's eating.

[luna moth]

YES. It will go away.

I was really anti-veg right until I was 12, then slowly got into vegies bit by bit. Nowadays, I'm a vegan.

Keep offering it.

Good luck!

[Kazbah]

Oh wow then I was really lucky - I had one night where Pip decided he wasn't going to eat his fave spag bol. Dad was there and kept saying to me "don't let him win" and I refused to give in, I even had to put on his harness (high chair split seat, converts to table/chair) so he wouldn't leave the table. After that one night I won, he will eat and try anything for me. DH however can't get him to eat a whole range of foods, so I know it's just his strong will.

If we're trying something new, then as long as he tastes it I'm happy, I always have containers of cooked rice with veg in the freezer that I can give him, or plain pasta to munch. If all goes pear-shaped, then it's milk at night in his cot instead of water.

Good luck, Pip hit this phase at around 2yrs and as I said, it was just one battle, one night with his fave food that I won and I now don't have the battles.

[Ozziehoffy]

Ooooh Oskar has decided that most nights he looks at his dinner and says... but I don't like that .lol.... without trying it! I make him try it and remind him that he does like it (well at least he did the last time lol). Tonight I made a mince thing with vegies and pasta but he said but I didn't want meat on my pasta *sighs* lol. I didn't have any spare pasta though haha. He tried a few bits and then I gave him the option of a honey sandwich or banana - he chose banana. The only reason I have offered something else is that the times I have said too bad and he's only half heartedly eaten is that he's not eaten enough and then has been so hungry going to bed that he can't get to sleep. I have also found that some of this depends on if he's tired.

Another thing which sometimes helps is if I ask him in the morning what he might like to have for dinner and if he chooses then he seems to eat it more.

I remember my parents forcing me to eat stuff I really didn't like... that was awful, I don't have fond memories of that at all. I won't fight but I will encourage and as long as he genuinely tries it then that's ok.

[deletedit]

Oh wow then I was really lucky - I had one night where Pip decided he wasn't going to eat his fave spag bol. Dad was there and kept saying to me "don't let him win" and I refused to give in

I tried that *once*. She refused to eat a bite of a particuarly nice dinner one day (despite having no food for 6 hours before and claiming being starving hungry) and silly me said no food at all until you've eaten your dinner, which we fridged. We gave in around lunch the next day by which time she'd actually got sick from not eating for so long. Never again. Her will is stronger than mine, and stronger than common sense too.

These days if she refuses to eat something we just send her to her room (can't hear her complain in there) and she gets no TV. She's so hard to get to drink anything though (she doesn't seem to get thirsty) we make her drink even if she's refusing to eat dinner.

[Lewis's Mummy]

o man this is all sounding so familiar! Let's hope the phase moves lol