I know this has probably been done to death but we're out of ideas and energy and DP insisted I use MN for something useful instead of just laughing at AIBU and getting him to do nappy changes.
DD is almost 2 and a fussy eater. I think. I don't know! She has a limited but fairly healthy repertoire :
Bread and marmite /bovril/ honey/ peanut butter
Pancakes/crumpets with the above spreads
Weetabix
Scrambled egg
Thai curry or korma sauce with rice or noodles
Sausages, fish fingers, scampi
PRAWNS she would eat them 3 meals a day plus snacks if allowed.
Egg fried rice
Cous cous salads
She will someone add chips/mash potato to this list.
Veg wise she'll eat peas and sweetcorn if in the mood, normally frozen. And she'll shovel in tinned tomato like you or I would cram in Nutella. Again if in the mood.
She'll eat buckets and buckets of full fat yoghurt and most fruits, also raisins etc
That is it. It drives me mad. I like to cook but she refuses to try anything else!
There's clearly a 10 minute window once a month when new foods are acceptable but I have no fucking idea when it is and I normally miss it.
Firstly is the above list ok? I've lost all sense of perspective. She eats no sugar (except the bit in weetabix we choose to pretend doesn't exist) and loves savoury (what 2 year old gets excited about bovril on brend every single day??) and eats lots of fruit but eats so little veg and so little variety.
Her food is generally homemade except sausages fish fingers etc.
At what age should I make a concerted effort to change this? I'm just apathetic at the moment so give her what she wants every meal. I sometimes aDD carrots, broccoli, French beans etc to her plate but she never ever ever tries them.
She's very big (99.6%) and healthy so it's the future I'm worried about and bad habits etc rather than the now.
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Anyone got any ideas about how to get unadventurous eater (2) to eat veg etc?
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Sotonwhere · 01/09/2015 23:25
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