Ok similar thread to Kanda's, but I am in need of help..
DD1 will eat, has no problem with breakfast, no problem with lunch either. Dinnertime is a complete waste of time and energy. She doesn't eat anything I cook for her, even if she has asked for it!
Im so tired, of cooking and handing the dog her dinner, of her not sleeping cause she has an empty tummy. If I ask her to eat something on her plate and she fusses enough she will throw it up immediately after trying it.
Tonight she said the food we cook for her makes her tummy sad. She says that every night. Maybe I am a bad cook, oh I don't know.
I've tried the well then you wait until breakfast thing, and shes fine with it.
Im over trying to make things she will eat, I want to eat so many other things that I love but she wont even contemplate, so I havent bothered cooking them in a long time.
It seems to be a texture thing, a colour thing, a temperature thing, and an overall look thing.... Either way Im stuffed.
So heres the questions,
what are your failsafe meal options to get your kids to eat healthy dinners?
What are your tricks to get them to eat?
What would you do if you were me?
What would you/have you changed to make dinnertime a success?
Im asking you wonderful people for advice, Im at my wits end, in tears every night over this. I hate dinnertime right now and I need to change that.
Please BBers I am in need of some serious help/advice/encouragement....
Please?
Have you tryed a main meal at lunch and then just a sandwich or something at dinner??
DS1 loves Spag bol, chicken curry, pies, beef stroganoff etc (all can have vegies grated and hidden in them easily)
If he has not eaten much in day I will try and convince him to have so many spoon fulls and then he can have a yougurt or fruit puree, doesn't always work but does sometimes.
DS2 sometimes eats a truckload other times chucks it on floor or pushes spoon out of my hand
Good luck
Yup tried the switcher-roo between dinner and lunch, some days it worked and others just not worth it. Rewards, threats, dessert, treats nothing works normally... Its so frutstrating, I even have started asking ehr what she wanted for dinner, and after he asking all day for it, she won't eat it at dinnertime.
DD2 is normally a great eater, and DD1 was a great eater at DD2's age too. Things changed and now I need to get them back on track. I so dearly want to eat the things I love again.
lol, normally she asks for pizza pies, which are like pizza rounders. Or noodles, which isnt 2min noodles, but chow mein noodles or similar... Sometimes she eats what she is given but normally she just doesnt.
After having a dream dinner eater in DD, DS is just a nightmare, and frustratingly, he's the one influencing DD, not the other way around.
A few things that have worked for us (though with the disclaimer of not always, often random success)
- They have to eat at the table, but I'm not particularly fussy about the description of the table. I have eaten dinner at the kids table, the coffee table, outside...you get the idea.
- I try and get them to eat early - yes that means sometimes I'm eating really early, but they can't manage boo when they're tired and then generally bedtime turns to poo too.
- Horrifyingly (not really but some would be ) sometimes I give them a snack (a little one) an hour before dinner if they're particularly ratty. That helps tide them over and they aren't so starving that they're cranky and uppity at dinner time and unwilling to try anything.
- offer a smaller/larger different plate. DD refused for ages to eat her dinner. Turned out she wanted a plate like mine instead of a babies plate...whatdayaknow - she was happy to eat again. DS on the other hand needs a smaller plate or otherwise he's overwhelmed and won't eat boo.
- offer less food than you think they can eat. They can always have more and the small triumph for them of finishing a plate of food and your approval is often the boost they need. My MIL used to berate me for the tiny amount of food I'd give DD - but she'd eat it and ask for more She's happy and I'm happy - portion size is individual when your tummy is only as big as your fist.
- a 'picnic plate' as DD calls it. A little bit of everything we're eating and some other bits and pieces) in a segmented plate.
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) sometimes I give them a snack (a little one) an hour before dinner if they're particularly ratty. That helps tide them over and they aren't so starving that they're cranky and uppity at dinner time and unwilling to try anything.
She's happy and I'm happy - portion size is individual when your tummy is only as big as your fist.
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