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When does the pickiness get better?

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My twins don't eat much and i'm getting so bored. They eat pasta but only with cheese, one will eat chick nuggets & Fish sticks but the other won't try anything new at all. They eat yogurt, french fries & all fruits. They like pizza as well. BUT basically that's it! DD will only eat pureed veggies & grape tomatoes. DS will only eat peas & grape tomatoes.

I have tried in the past to give them new stuff but i find that i'm wasting so much food and i'm on a limted food budget as it is.

Any suggestions? Food ideas?

I do have early intervention starting soon for speech mostly but some behavioral issues as well but I'm also thinking they may have texture issues. They said they can help with that.

I guess i just would like to know when your kids started trying new things? I've given them the same thing 40x's and they still won't touch it. :(

Thanks!

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Re: When does the pickiness get better?

  • la79alla79al member
    DD2 is also very picky.  No veggies, no fruits, no cake, muffins, waffles, pancakes, bread.  And she's allergic to milk.  She eats a lot of meat, most of the time.  I have discovered though that ketchup or gravy seems to make her at least try other foods.  Plus I sometimes just feed her off my plate, going with the 'whatever works' approach.  And you don't want to hear this, but DD1 used to eat everything and is now getting pickier and pickier :(.
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  • KateLouiseKateLouise member

    Obviously some kids are more stubborn than others, but I've always insisted that DD1 try everything on her plate. After that she can eat it or not, but that's all there is for dinner.

    Somedays she's more compliant than others, but generally she's pretty good at trying stuff. Plenty of times she turns her nose up and says she doesn't like it, and I say that's fine, "just leave it on your plate."

    I'd love to know when the pickiness ends though because somedays all she'll eat is broccolli, even though the rest of the food on her plate are things I know she likes. I hate wasting food.

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  • Smores730Smores730 member
    Still waiting on the pickiness to get better in this house! I will 2nd the idea of "dips". My kids will try a lot more things if there's something to dip it in like ketchup, hummus, ranch, melted velveeta. If I put it on their food it loses the appeal, but dipping for whatever reason makes them happy.
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  • groovygrlgroovygrl member

    my twins were never quite that bad but from 18 months to 2 1/2 I'd say, they got much more picky & I found myself throwing in the towel & giving the same things all the time. I also felt like i was wasting so much food (and time & energy) and decided to revisit later. Between 2 1/2 & 3 I started introducing new thigns again & serving them more of what we were having for dinner or what we had the night before & foudn them a little more open to things...by age 3 we started the 'no thank you' bite (I dont think they would have gotten that at 2) where they had to try a bite of everything (including chewing & swallowing it haha) & could say no thank you after that. I was a super picky eater as a kid until probably middle school and I kept reminding myself that they'd be ok without some full palate of food & I now eat just about anything so I feel confident they'll open up to new foods over time. I had/have no concerns about what they were getting nutritionally though (thankfully, they will eat a lot of things w/ chopped spinach mixed in and sometimes some other veggies in soups & whatnot, so they still get some veggies most days and eat from all the food groups pretty much).

    Also I have twins and their tastes are so different, it is amazing, so sometimes I have to make meals that will appeal to both- she loves carbs and he loves meat... for pizza, she'll eat it the regular way but picks off the green peppers I put on there & refuses to eat them, he picks the green peppers off & eats them first (?!), then the pepperoni & cheese & leaves the crust behind unless I force him to eat it (which I do so that he isn't eating a meal of cheese & pepperoni lol).  

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  • AmericanInOzAmericanInOz member

    give it time

    dd slowly over the past 6 months or so has been trying new things and is slowly expanding what she'll eat

    all you can do is keep offering and eventually they DO start trying things again - dd wouldn't eat peas for like a year and loves them now (again - liked them before she was 1!)

    I guess just give them a limited amount of a new thing at a meal - so you don't waste too much if they don't want it?

    GL - I know it's SOOOOOOOOO frustrating!

    I agree with the dip thing too - dd will only try (or eat) certain foods if she has her dip (low salt ketchup)

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