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About my non eating child?

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Tenlittlepiggies · 15/08/2021 15:48

I’m kind of despairing, my nearly 3 year old is so fussy with food it’s now verging on ridiculous.
He’ll currently only really eat dry things like crackers and crisps. He will sometimes eat just crackers for breakfast. He’ll occasionally eat an apple and sometimes peas. It’s becoming so stressful, as every meal time most of the food gets thrown away. We’re not a particularly well off family, so it’s really soul destroying to see all that perfectly good food being chucked in the bin.

Is anyone in a similar boat? He’ll eat sweet things like chocolate and mini marshmallows too and ice lollies.

But won’t eat sandwiches, cheese, pizza, wraps, pasta, any type of meat, he’s recently even gone off fish fingers and chicken dippers which he used to eat when we were desperate.

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firstimemamma · 15/08/2021 15:52

That sounds really tough. Have you tried not having this crisps, marshmallows etc in the house at all so that they are not an option? Could you involve him in the cooking e.g easy pizza making using pitta bread for the base, tomato purée and veg / cheese?