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Toddler question-food
I am going out of my mind that my child has become such a picky eater the last few months. The only thing he will eat is fruit(that is a good thing), french fries and the occassional chicken nuggets or eggs.
What gives??!! I offer him everything from peanut butter sandwiches, lunch meat(to get some kind of protein, cheese( he eats occasionally), hot dogs, macs and cheese.
He loves milk which he can't get enough of and he loves apple juice which I dilute to 3/4 water and the other part juice.
I am just afraid he is not getting the right nutrients and I feel like a horrible mom:(
Re: Toddler question-food
most pedi's will tell you that as long as you offer healthy options and your child is not sick/developing normally... he or she will come around eventually. sometimes it's about power/control, sometimes the kid just isn't as hungry as you think they should be. or it's a phase where they realize they CAN decide to not eat something.
if your child is able to communicate (you know, like... say... a third grader) and will "only" eat french fries and chicken nuggets, it's a whole other issue entirely.
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I pretty much feel this way. We give her what we're eating every night, but also add other things I know she'll eat (and also to balance out the meal if we're not eating super healthy.) I can almost always count on her to eat fruit and cheese at the very least.
Mine is the same way... I do offer all sorts of foods, but she usually declines. She eats lots of yogurt and fruit, hummus (some days)...not many veggies (although they are offered).
I try to make her a spinach smoothie about every other day or so: Big handful of spinach, a banana, some frozen berries, greek yogurt/or milk...and then sometimes I throw in flax seeds or wheat germ. She loves them and it makes me feel better about her not eating many veggies right now.
I agree with Jax. It's mainly about them learning that they have control over certain things in their lives. My kids were great eaters until they hit around 2 y.o. Suddenly they didn't want anything but the usual kid crap. (Pretty much anything beige!) But if you keep offering the foods, they'll most likely start eating them again.
Last night, we had a huge breakthrough. My 6 year old has been doing much better, trying new things, eating more vegetables, etc., but my 4 year old is still quite picky. But something neither one of them would eat is anything resembling tomatoes or tomato sauce (with the exception of pizza--and even then they would scrape much of the sauce off). No ketchup, no spaghetti sauce, etc. They also wouldn't eat anything where the ingredients were mixed up, casserole style. So no enchiladas, no lasagna, etc. BUT, last night we had lasagna, and my 6 year old LOVED it. I was beyond shocked. Even my 4 year old ate some of it, though she didn't dig it like my son did.
Have faith, and just keep offering up the variety of foods.
My grandma swore my dad didn't eat anything besides peanut butter sandwiches and carrots for years and years, and he turned out just fine.
My son goes through phases, either he's in picky mode or he's in eat everything that's not nailed down mode. We're learning to just ignore the pickiness and sooner or later he goes back to eating. I do try to make sure there is one item in every meal that I know he likes. It's really trying though. I just want to scream "EAT SOMETHING DAMNIT!" during dinner sometimes but I don't. This too shall pass.
I will look into this. It sounds like a good read along with trying the smoothie route with yogurt and spinach/fruit.
Definitely get that book! I've never read that one, but I did read "Child of Mine" by the same author and she really put a lot of things in perspective for me. Her "advice" helped our entire family through a reall rough patch when Truitt (4.5 yo) was not eating *anything* and dinner time was such a stressful mess.
That being said, we do what bpaullo does. Eat what I make and nothing else. There is almost always at least 1 thing on the plate my picky eater with ingest. However, we went through a phase where at east 3 nights a week he went to bed without dinner. I worried because he is really, really thin, but we made it through and he is much better. This is all in large part because of Ellyn Satter!