help! picky eater ony hands!

Re: help! picky eater ony hands!

• JENandJEH member

  August 2013

  At this age, just keep offering a variety of foods.  Is her pedi worried?  Is she gaining weight and thriving in her development?  If so, I wouldn't stress about food as long as you're offering her a variety of healthy options.  My oldest didn't really eat meat until he was closer to 3 (not even chicken nuggets).  

  
  

  I always make sure to offer 1 thing at each meal that I KNOW he'll eat and then I offer new foods or foods we've had before that he may not have loved.  I don't offer so much of the thing I know he likes that he can fill up on it either.  Keep offering and don't turn it into a battle.  They will eat when they're hungry.  Our pediatrician prefers we look at food intake over the course of a week rather than a day.  There are just some days that they (and us, too, as adults) won't be as hungry as others.  

  
  

  As for ideas, if she likes mashed potatoes, puree some parsnips or cauliflower and add to the mashed potatoes.  If she likes pancakes, puree some sweet potatoes and add to the batter.  If she likes noodles with sauce, puree some carrots/peas/any veggie really and add to the sauce.  Have you tried eggs?  DS loves scrambled eggs (I scramble them pretty hard so they don't fall apart as easily) for breakfast.  Smoothies are a good way to sneak in some veggies and fruits, too.  

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• BiscuitEater21 member

  August 2013

  My son is not very picky but he won't eat meat either! I'm thinking it must be pretty common. He won't even eat chicken nuggets either but I love chicken. He seems to like beef, like tacos!

  
  

  I still buy him a lot of baby foods, well toddler, but they're all in smaller portions and packaged so that it's just right. He loves the fruit and veggie melts by Gerber and he has started eating their cereal bars for breakfast  

  
  

  Toddlers mostly live off snack food, so as long as it's healthy it's okay!

  

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• eyenigh member

  August 2013

  Another meat-free kid here. The only way he eats any is if I chop it up very fine in a sauce or hide it. Chicken nuggets or some kind of hunks? No way! I do make turkey meatballs and chop them up for him in sauces as well as add vegetables to pasta sauces. I buy the hidden veggie pasta, which supposedly has a serving of veggies in each pasta serving. Luckily he loves breakfast foods and will eat pancakes, French toast, oatmeal or waffles happily. He's open to most fruits, too and loves watermelon, blueberries, peaches and bananas. If I let him, he'd eat yogurt at every meal. I make my own since he eats so much and I usually use Plum Organics fruit and veggie smoothies as the flavoring so I'm squeezing in a few extra veggies, there, too. Have you tried baked sweet potato fries?

  
  

  
  

  
  

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• ash&ali61912

  August 2013

  she loves fries so I was thinking about the sweet potato ones, she only gets them baked! she won't eat any pasta or sauce for me but if she could have yogurt and muffins for every meal she'd be one happy baby. she really loves all fruits, its just veggies we have a hard time with. I've offered her smoothies before but she's very much a texture person and she doesn't like it and spits it back out. chicken nuggets are the only meat I can get her to eat. I got the fun nuggets, shaped like little dinosaurs, from tyson and she just recently decided she likes those. I think she didn't want them before because I cut them up for her but now she takes them whole and takes bites off of them. she was a fan of quesadillas but she won't touch them anymore. and if I try to feed her mashed potatoes she'll gag on them and spit them out

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• blu-eyedwife member

  August 2013

  As you may have gathered by the previous posts, kids go through food phases.  Mine went through a no-meat phase, a no-green veggies phase, a no-mango phase, a no-avocado phase, and he's come out of all of them.  (Right now I feel like we've been in a no-raw-leafy-veggie phase for a very long time, but he'll eat spinach and kale in soups, pastas, or quiche, so it's not a terrible thing)

  
  

  We were similar to @JENandJEH, I continue to offer the food he's not interested in, but not every night.  And I don't make him eat it.  With the no-meat phase, some nights I would serve chicken/burgers/steak.  Other night's I'd serve something with beans - like chili, soup, or a bean and rice strata.  I also made use of quinoa, lentils, cheese, eggs and other forms of non-meat proteins.

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• thatoneredhead member

  August 2013

  Another no meat baby. No cheese, veggies, strawberries, melon, or eggs either. He loves hummus which I think it crazy weird.

  
  

  Ive gone back to using pouches for snacks. He will eat veggies that way. 
  

  
  

  
  

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