Toddlers go through a stage where evolution has taught them not to try new foods because when they started crawling if they ate the strange berry they could die. So there is an instinctual thing not to want to try new things.

There is a couple of things to consider 1) does your LO have any sensory issues? for eg a friend of mine's boy would only eat white things and it had to be round.

I agree don't make tea a battle but you need to be consistant, so if you are going to go with the no dinner rule then don't give a sandwhich, he know's that he will get that (I know that was another pp response but it is the same thing). If you are happy for him to have the sandwhich then give that to him at tea time. I was doing this and then realised it was becoming really common and had to stop so it wasn't the norm. If we have a tea that I know he won't eat (my DS doesn't like mince) then I will let him have other food.

About dinner/tea evening meal (just to avoid confusion ) sometimes my DS is just too tired to eat much and just isn't hungry. I find if I feed him earlier with less snacks closer to tea (regardless of teatime in relation to snacks) then he will eat more.

Ironically we never gave DS purees and now he doesn't like mush at all, so won't eat potatoe or pumpkin.


*shrug* it is hard and while my DS is a fairly good eater there are lot's of things he won't eat. Watching my sisters boys they do grow out of it