My dd is 2.5 and I worry about her diet. She can be very fussy and I'm struggling to get much protein or veg in to her at the moment.
She tends to eat the same things over and over again, and can like something then suddenly refuse to eat it for weeks (yoghurts, I'm looking at you!). I know this can be normal toddler behaviour but I'd really like to try and implement a more balanced diet for her.
An example of what she eats is - weetabix or toast for breakfast, with a piece of fruit.
Lunch is usually a peanut butter or humous sandwich, a few crisps (those organix puffy ones), cherry tomatoes and sometimes a yoghurt but she has recently refused to eat them. Worrying as she won't drink milk or eat cheese so doesn't have any other dairy products.
Dinner is either fried rice (rice, veg and egg fried in a pan with some garlic, ginger and five spice), pasta with chorizo and pesto, Chinese noodles (made in a similar way to the fried rice), pitta bread pizza. She won't eat anything else
She doesn't seem to like meat unless it's a sausage, or chicken nuggets, or sliced chorizo which are all high in salt. I've tried making my own chicken nuggets with chicken breast but she won't eat it. She won't eat potatoes full stop. She won't eat cheese (apart from a token amount on top of pitta bread pizza) or anything creamy. The only raw veg she will eat is cherry tomatoes. She won't eat beans or spaghetti.
I feel so bad for giving her the same meals all the time. DP & I eat quite a varied diet and always encourage her to try new things, and she does actually try them but 99% of the time declares it to be 'yakky'
Does anyone have any miraculous ideas of new things to try? I don't have a huge amount of spare time so anything quick to make would be great. I am fed up of making food to only throw it away because she won't eat it, as I meal plan every week to keep costs down and can't afford to spend extra money on things that are going to be wasted.
Please help!
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FelixFelix · 21/07/2016 16:20
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