HI,
My DD is 2 next week. I'm a SAHM and make all food from scratch. I'm also a massive foodie myself and I eat and huge range of foods - there is virtually nothing except a very very small number of things I won't eat. And even then if I was at a dinner party I'd eat whatever I was given regardless to be polite. I grew up in a house where my own father was mega fussy and because of that the whole household had to endure boring limited food. Because of this background it's really important to me that my own children experience a range of foods, are open minded to trying new things and most importantly grow up knowing the difference between healthy and bad processed food.
I've always rotated what I have cooked for my DD. I change the menu every week so that she doesn't get used to the same dishes. Except to my sadness she's becoming more and more fussy. It's making me dread meal times. My husband works away for weeks at a time - I'm making the effort to cook all these different healthy dishes and she's outrightly refusing 90% of them. Sometimes the things she loves she'll suddenly refuse.
I also can't decided if I'm being unreasonable in some of the things I would hope she would eat. She now walks into the kitchen and before I can even put her plate in front of her she'll say "urgh not nice" and starts to pull faces at the food. After a full day on my own with her, day in day out, it's really starting to get to me. I end up in tears sometimes because of it.
I've tried not giving her an alternative but she's refusing so much food these days that would mean she'd end up hardly eating at all.
Friends tell me what she will eat is relatively healthy but I think it's very narrow. It also means I also have to eat a limited range of foods and that makes me depressed because I can't start changing the entire household diet to suit her.
Her is what she will eat 90% of the time:
olives
tomatoes
plain steak
chicken if in gravy
ham
cream cheese
any kind of bread
any kind of fruit
sometimes roasted carrots but it HAS to be roasted
natural joghurt
porridge
bacon
pasta in cheese
pasta on it's own
bolognese sauce
rice cakes
rivitias
Here is what she won't eat:
any vegetables which are not mentioned above (so hardly any!)
potatoes in any form ( no chips, mash, roast, nothing)
any fish
anything in a pie
anything
baked beans
fish fingers (I rarely offer her junk food but in desperation when I have she won't eat it anyway)
pizza
crisps
At the moment I basically scratch my head every day to decide what to cook for dinner. I can't remember the last time I enjoyed dinner. All the joy has one from it. It goes like this - I spend 1 hour cooking something that most people would say is delicious, she walks in and tells me it's not nice, she screams throughout dinner so I can barely eat myself, she continues whinging, I sometimes give her an alternative like a rice cake with humous on it. Then she'll have joghurt with fruit for dessert. Then I spend ages washing up all the things I used to make the dinner from scratch which she never eats. I wonder why I bother.
I'm so depressed. Has anyone ever had a toddler who was fussy with food then started to miraculously try more things?
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My toddler is making dinner time miserable - please help
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Solar99 · 25/07/2016 17:43
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