2 year old.. terrible eater.. need ideas..

[Stevie]

Thanks for your help girls!! its nice to know imn ot the only one!! Im thinking i might for awhile try and make her lunch the "biggish" meal.. and at dinner if she only eats a toastie i wont feel bad! i dont feel hungry at the end of the day and i guess if imnot hungry why would i eat? point is i guess who should i force feed her!!
and heaven i might just do that, for the next week or so just have it tthere, if she eats it awesome.. if not oh well!! All i can do is make sure the option isthere.

Thanks again for your help..
wish me luck lol

[Beach Mama]

Just keep offering and they do finally grow out of it. Both of mine refused to eat tomato based pasta ( who woulda thunk it?) about a year ago and now love it. We tend to put one of each veggie on their plate with whatever they do eat in the hope they will start eating it. We want them to see that it is normal and that is dinner - choose to only eat the meat? Fine but you might be hungry later which is too bad. As a PP mentioned it is important that they get a rounded diet but it is sooo hard. I cooked specifically for the kids for a loooong time, things like if I made pasta I would make it something that they would eat but they have outgrown that fussiness and now will eat what we eat! Both of mine went through that phase of living on air too - everyone told me they would grow out of it and they did! DD eats so much now I never would have believed it when she was 2!