LOL, that's ok hun, I got your reply. Thankyou.
Having dinner earlier is an option, we used to eat at 5ish when the kids went to bed earlier, but since DLS satrted, they're not going to bed til 7.30/8ish due to it being so light still. So we just sort of naturally started eating later....instead of 5.30/6 I will aim for 5/5.30 for dinner. He eat fairly well during the day. This morning for example, we were up at 5.45am (yawn!) and he's had a bowl of cornflakes, a banana and is now eating an apple. They both eat alot in the day. Usually cerial or 2 slices of toast, 2 whole peices of fruit, a muesli bar or similar through the morning, a sandwich/soup with bread/baked beans/mixed plate (piece of bread or crackers, some carrot sticks, ham, DD will eat an egg/cheese ect) for lunch, crackers/yogurt/more fruit/veggie sticks (though DS will only eat carrots), sometimes a treat like bickies/some chocolate/chips/iceblock, a large serving of milk (about 200mls). So all up they eat well over the day, but it's just dinner meals they have issues with DS moreso than DD. It's not really the amount of food I worry about it's the nutrients DS misses out on. Particularly iron. He was BF until about 4mths ago so I wasn't worried then, but now he gets nothing cause he won't eat meat! I have tried giving him a meal like spaghetti or caserole and rice for lunch, but he just won't eat it.
I don't necessarily thing it's a texture thing. He has eaten meat, like a lamb chop, homemade chicken nuggets, homemade fish fingers, sausages, bolegnaise sauce. He eats raw carrot, apples, yogurt, bread, pasta....so lots of different textural things. I just don't know why he won't eat meat now. The past months or two he just refuses except for sausages.
I just don't get it....I'm worried I'll stuff their thinking up when it comes to eating. I think I have a bit with DD's. I have a terrible relationship with food and my body and I so don't wnat that for them.
We have moments from hell here too where they will eat a whole bowl of something one week and both turn their dainty particular noses up a week later. SO frustrating.
One thing I read on another thread recently was making the lunch meal a big substantial one rather than dinner. Then dinner could be whatever you know they will eat - even a sandwich or something? I do that on some days and if I know they have had a great lunch and pick at dinner they ust have fruit and yoghurt and we leave it at that. Both of mine are string beans but eat relatively well over the day aw well.... James will spit out meat if it's too tough as well (and sometimes not even when it's tough, like he cbf chewing ) Have you kept a food diary hun just to reassure yourself that they probably are getting all they need and it you mix things up a bit it will be fine. As they get older I bet it will get easier. Iz was a shocker too and is VERY slowly getting better but J at 2 can border on the ridiculous. xoxox
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We have moments from hell here too where they will eat a whole bowl of something one week and both turn their dainty particular noses up a week later. SO frustrating.
) Have you kept a food diary hun just to reassure yourself that they probably are getting all they need and it you mix things up a bit it will be fine. As they get older I bet it will get easier. Iz was a shocker too and is VERY slowly getting better but J at 2 can border on the ridiculous. xoxox
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