Dinner Time

So DD is 20 months :o (wow where did that time go?!) and goes to childcare full time while DH and I work.

She gets a cooked lunch everyday, morning and afternoon tea, and generally has 2 serves of all 3 :redface: little piggy!

At dinner time, we have a struggle to get her to eat what we dish up. Now i realise she probably isnt super hungry and thats cool, i just wanted to see if anyone else's kids that go to childcare do the same thing.
I dish up what we are having and if she doesnt eat it, then she doesnt get offered anything else.

If i dish up something like pasta, shepherds pie, risotto, etc generally she eats it, but if its meat and veg she refuses.

She was a great eater as a bub but things are more challenging with her now

My dd was the same. I'd give her super small serves or just a sandwhich as I knew a) she was getting everything she needed at child care b) she wasn't hungry.

Similar for our little one. Sometimes I think she is too tired to eat properly, so we try to make sure she is fed by 5.30, even on child care days. (bit tricky, but we try)
But I also know that child care gives them biscuits for a snack at 4.45, so she often isn't that hungry anyway.
She eats so well (multiple serves like your little one), that I have resolved not to let it worry me.

Dinner is a real non event here.
Like PPs have said, often they are too tired, ang my theory is that they only eat what they need. I rekon my DS has been to bed without dinner more times than with.
On the not eating what she used to though - toddlers are like that. You think you have them pegged and then they change completely.

Probably too tired, childcare is pretty stimulating when your little and sounds like she fulls up during the day, so maybe just a sandwich and/or yoghurt when she gets in. Great she eats so well in the day.

thanks girls :)

glad to hear she is pretty normal for a toddler.