Well... I must say its refreshing to know I'm not alone in this battle either. Matilda has gone the last week without dinner because she has refused ANYTHING offered to her & I just put her to bed after offering her an ice block, yogurt, vegemite sandwich for lunch which is her fav lunch & she didn't eat one bite. If we try to offer her something different, the only way she will eat it is if we are eating dinner with her & she gets it off our plate (like Aidyn).

For a few months there we would offer her dinner & then wind up feeding her what we knew she would eat, her favourites... the last week we decided she needed to have some different variety because although what she was eating was healthy, it was limited to 3-4 things (Jacob's got more range than Matilda ) She ate one dinner this week which was a spinach omelette which is good we've found one more dinner for her. I guess what we do is alot like what Tracey said... leave it for 10-15 minutes and if nothing happens (although with Matilda its more likely that everything will be chucked on the floor & she will be screaming & trying to climb out of the high chair) we put her down and leave her. She eats dinner heaps earlier than we do, so lately we've tried to eat with her and sometimes we offer her a "second" dinner when we eat just before she goes to bed, most of the time she doesn't eat it but will sample things off our plates.

So she eats breakfast really well, eats m/ tea with a voracious appetite, refuses lunch and dinner. We stopped feeding her arvo tea to try and increase her hunger for dinner but it made no difference so now we offer her something small but different than normal & she doesn't eat it either.

Our dogs have gained heaps of weight in the last month too.... They have to do the initial clean up around the high chair because it makes me feel ill trying to clean up all the mixed up foods.

Oh! Thats funny...I was just thinking about how last week at puppy preschool I told the owners that they should leave the food with the puppies for 10-15 minutes and if they didn't eat to pick it up & offer it again the next feeding time.... and that promotes good eating and not picky eating... :-k Maybe I should have taken my own advice with my daughter 8-[