*hugs* Relle...its so frustrating having a picky eater, especially one that will like a meal one moment & then dislike it the next.

Matilda will eat anything with a tomato base, pizza, bolognaise, lasagne. So I try to make 3 dinners a week with that so I "know" that she will eat them. Having said that sometimes you slave for hours making a lasagne to have it rejected... But I guess that is what I do now, just make sure that we have a few meals we know she will eat & I freeze small portions just for her in case we want to eat something different.

I make homemade pizza's with things almost pureed and spread on top for her with cheese. I put spinach, potatoes and brocolli on our pizza's but she will pick it off, so now I cook it down & puree it and spread it over the base before I put on the pasta sauce or I make the vege's into the pasta sauce to hide it.

We also have the 20 minute rule, where we offer her food and if in 20 minutes she hasn't eaten any we take it away. She goes 1-2 nights a week atm without dinner.

I also stopped feeding her afternoon tea & moved dinner earlier so we all eat dinner at 5.30pm most nights & her has no afternoon tea, maybe a snack when she wakes up if its early but most times no arvo tea.

Matilda also hates red meat & the only time she eats it is in bolognaise... or ham. I don't worry too much about it because I don't like it either & we get iron from other sources.

Thats about all the suggestions I can think of.... not much here. *hugs* it is the most frustrating thing trying to encourage your child to eat healthy wholesome meals.