Very fussy eater 18 months old

[1009]

My daughter is 18 months old and feeding times are turning into a nightmare. She refuses to eat all vegetables unless they are blended and hidden in food and eats very little fruit, she finds it very sweet and spits it back out.

Pasta is also a big NO but loves to eat beans, sausages, fish fingers (batter removed) yoghurts and on occasion sandwiches with ham or chicken meat. But I cant feed her this all the time.

Does anyone have any recipes for meals at dinner time ?

What sort of foods at dinner time does everyone's children like ?

She hates the texture of pasta and mash potato, also tomato based sauces. I'm at my wits end. I really want to increase her food intake in order to stop her milk feed during the night .

 

[girly2007]

I can top that so I'll be stalking this! My son is 16 months and will eat...
Breakfast: handful of dry Cheerios or half a slice of toast with full fat lurpack (no joke - he won't have any other brand)
Lunch: either 2 slices of malt loaf or cheese spread on a slice of white bread or cheese spread on crackers
Raisins
Blueberries
Biscuits
Yogurt
Tea: a sausage (skin off) or fish fingers
Beans (although he's refusing these the past few days)
Fruit
Biscuits
Supper: rusk

He hates potato (mashed / chips / even sweet) and veg. Also will not drink cows milk!

Also this is a list of things he likes... Not what he will eat...there are times when he refuses these!!!

He still breastfeeding on demand so I'm not too worried about vitamins etc but we need tips!!

Sorry for hijacking your thread!

Xx

 

[Kiagirl]

My LO got a bit picky at that age. The childminder gave her sauce and mayo. She will now literally eat anything as long as she has a blob on her plate for her to dip! It's not great I admit but I am hoping to wean her off as she gets older and I can reason more with her.

I also ditched the high chair and got her a table. It's amazing how much she will eat not realising when she is distracted by the tv. We also got a booster seat and she has some meals with us at the table and she gets the same food as us and will usually just copy what we eat. She also insists on having a big fork and a big spoon! She will be 2 in July.

 

[Ella1979]

I'd carry on blending and hiding the vegetables, but perhaps every week introduce a vegetable that isn't blended - she can try it and it doesn't matter if she doesn't like it because you know she's still getting the blended veg. Sometimes it's a texture thing, sometimes it's just because they like/don't like things separated out. My daughter's always been a bit fussy about how food arrives on the plate. She has to have things separate, e.g. cottage pie with loads of veg in it = no eating, cottage pie made with just meat and potato, with veg in a separate bowl = eating. My son will eat stuff either way.

What I did with my daughter during a particularly fussy phase was choose one meal - I think it was spag bol, so might not work with your daughter, there's a great Annabel Karmel recipe using cod that I do for my two and they love it - and present it to her twice a week. Repetition definitely seems to work. We have a basic range of a dozen meals that I do on rotation over a 2 week period.

Have you got any recipe books for fussy eaters? That cod one by Annabel Karmel is in her fussy eaters book and has been brilliant (admittedly it uses pasta) and there's also a chicken risotto - neither of these are tomato based.

 

[clairem1980]

Do your little ones eat snacks between meals?
I only ask as shortly after 18 months I realised my little one was eating virtually nothing. Didn't like potato, veg, chicken. She'd eat sausage and fish fingers and pizza. That was it pretty much.
I spoke to our HV and asked how do I make her less fussy. She asked how I handled a meltdown at mealtime. I said there aren't meltdowns. So she said 'ah, so you feed her what she wants then?'. Hm. Yes.....
I then asked if they can drink too much milk as my little one would guzzle three tommee tippee sippy cups full of milk each morning before her breakfast. Which she wouldn't eat! Turns out she was getting over half her daily calories from the milk so could afford to be fussy.
Limited her to half a cup of milk and just water after that. Dished up tiny portion of what we were eating and within 3 days the difference was noticeable.
I also cut out all snacks between meals. Previously about half an hour breakfast I'd be led by the hand to the snack cupboard for crisps chocolate fruit pouches and cheddars. The trip was repeated often during the morning. Then she'd eat no lunch. Repeat trip in the afternoon. Eat no tea. Repeat.
Obvious really once I stopped it but at the time I just wanted her to eat anything she'd take!

 

[1009]

I'd carry on blending and hiding the vegetables, but perhaps every week introduce a vegetable that isn't blended - she can try it and it doesn't matter if she doesn't like it because you know she's still getting the blended veg. Sometimes it's a texture thing, sometimes it's just because they like/don't like things separated out. My daughter's always been a bit fussy about how food arrives on the plate. She has to have things separate, e.g. cottage pie with loads of veg in it = no eating, cottage pie made with just meat and potato, with veg in a separate bowl = eating. My son will eat stuff either way.

What I did with my daughter during a particularly fussy phase was choose one meal - I think it was spag bol, so might not work with your daughter, there's a great Annabel Karmel recipe using cod that I do for my two and they love it - and present it to her twice a week. Repetition definitely seems to work. We have a basic range of a dozen meals that I do on rotation over a 2 week period.

Have you got any recipe books for fussy eaters? That cod one by Annabel Karmel is in her fussy eaters book and has been brilliant (admittedly it uses pasta) and there's also a chicken risotto - neither of these are tomato based.

Yes I have a Annabel Karmel toddler meal planner book but I have tried a few things with no success , I will try some of her recipes for fussy eaters.

x

 

[H16]

My daughter doesn't eat mashed potato either, she hates the texture, we are ok with pasta though.

My daughter became quite fussy around a month ago and now refuses to eat different meals to us so I just started giving her what we eat. She loves spicy food as well, so she often has a bit of chicken curry or mexican chicken etc. She only likes food that are quite a solid texture and have a lot of taste. I am quite lucky that she loves fruit and veg though.

I don't give her a snack between meals either, she only has juice or water x