I have a mindee who is 2.9 years and since being placed with me (4 months now) has always eaten very little. I cook all sorts of things and take my recipes from the Annabel Karmel book 'cooking for toddlers'. Mum originally told me that mindee is used to all sorts of foods that she cooks him such as meats with cook-in sauces (jar type not her own - oh that's not meant as a criticism!!), pkt noodles with chicken flavoured sachets and packets of pasta'n'sauce (the ones that you just add milk & butter to - they have quite a few E numbers not really suitable for infants and young children). Now, I have a dilemma because mum asked me to give noodles with ckn flav sachets to try and get him to eat something; ok I did and he will always eat some of it and now she wants me to try the pasta'n'sauce from pkts. Ok the dilemma is that I have another mindee who nearly always eats what I cook & I really do not want to start cooking one thing for one of them and something else for the other. When my kids were young, many moons ago, they either ate what I cooked or went without - that makes me sound as though I was a really horrible mummy . I would welcome your opinions - do you think I am making too much of a fuss to the mum about doing something different for her Ds ? what would you do? Mindee will happily ask for pudding if fromage frais is on offer but not necessarily the fruit. I am afraid that I never give in to him {shock] . I have discussed my concerns with mum and she says that he will not eat at the dads either (goes to dad for weekends). Mum has suggested that if I worried to take him to see health visitor.