michele.....lets talk food.

dee&mike · March 2011

so i am struggling with liam too. i started this week with 2 new things. introducing new things to him. i figured if i keep putting it there he might take a bite. and no snacks after nap time.

the 1st night he ate 0 peas. all he said was yuck and eew. the 2nd night it was given to him 1st and he ate a few on their own ( we called them green rocks) and then one spoonfull with 5 of them on it. i was super happy with that. i will give him more with his dinner tonight. i also did celery with PB for lunch today. he took a few bites of the celery ( which i called a cracker) and then just ate the PB out of it. i left the plain celery on his tray and he ended up taking a couple more bites.

i want to get to the point where i tell him "you eat this or its nothing" but it would break my heart to not feed him anything....

i think the no snacks after nappy has worked great too, he is super hungry at dinnertime.

so those are my ideas right now i would love to hear if you or anyone else has any good ones to share!!!

micheleNYC · March 2011

This stage is SO frustrating! Ben ate everything until about 18 months and now it's torture.

I have cut back on post-nap snacks but he does get one at daycare, and our dinner time is later with Jerred's work hours so he's allowed one snack at like 3/4:00 but only one cup of milk now once he gets home.

I have been trying that this week too - I give him one thing I know he'll eat and he's not allowed to get down until he at least tries the other thing (usually whatever we're having for dinner).

I wonder if I could sell peas to him as something dinosaur related.... that's a great idea!

I have actually sent him to bed without dinner and it doesn't matter, he just will refuse to eat.

PeterJudesMommy · March 2011

Butting in - I know Peter's maybe a bit older, but he's a super picky eater. We told him one night that he could have whatever he wants for dinner - seriously, whatever, but that he has to eat broccoli with it. He chose cake. But you know what? I didn't care because he ate the broccoli. And now he willingly eats broccoli. Cake = magic.

DomsMom09 · March 2011

Dom wouldn't eat anything I made him for the longest time. He would only eat mac n cheese, and grilled cheese, and cheese pizza. (the kid loves cheese!). So, I stopped making this stuff. We had a ban on the above items, and for a few days he refused to eat what I made, so I gave him dry cheerios or kix. Then he started to eat more of what I made. I added his favorites back into the mix, but only for lunches now. At dinner, he gets whatever meat I make and veg, with no starches until he eats enough of the meat/veg to make me happy. Then I'll give him the starch. I also refrain from putting the starch on mine and DH's plate until I'm ready for Dom to see it.

michele.....lets talk food.

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