Do you think my DD doesn't like my food

[badcook37572]

I'm not the best cook but since having DD have really made the effort esp as I want her to eat well. She is now 18 months and until recently ate fairly well. However now she has gone off so much of my food. One of my concerns is though she eats a couple of times at GP houses and eats their food. It's often not as healthy as mine though and I worry she has gone of my food because of this. (I definitely don't want her to have what they give her everyday) My DH thinks I'm being silly that DD is just going through a fussy stage. He said she's too use to my food to just go off it now. She also eats fairly well at nursery though.
Any advice? Thanks

My (limited!) experience is that DC eat better for everyone who isn’t their parents! Particularly at nursery as the other DC are eating so they copy.

Mine also began to have views at about 18 months...good luck!

As @DelurkingAJ says. Except my DCs went off almost everything at 13 months. They would only eat about 10 things each and there was virtually no common ground between them.

DC1, age 16, now eats everything. DC2, age 14, is still hellishly fussy but is very slowwwwllllly improving. I am a good cook.

I wouldnt worry to much, she will eat when she is hungry.

Try something totally different. Or get her to help a little, like a tasters session, say she is the cook. Obviously you will have prepped everything and make it a game, different veg and fruit, cooked meats, cheeses, crackers, crusty bread, dips and such like. Let her choose what goes on her plate, you join in and encourage her, if she tries something new praise her.

It may be a case she may just be ready to try new things. As we grow so do our tastes.

Mine always preferred DHs cooking, ate well in nursery So annoying

DH said my cooking was too bland as I was too strict about salt etc

Thanks everyone sounds like it's a common age for fussiness. I do wonder if that is the problem with me @fluffycatinahat as I try limit how much salt I use aswell. I'm going to try think of afew new things to try her with. One of the main issues is she seems to have gone off carbs she especially won't eat potatoes, sweet or normal 

I've a potato hater doesn't even like chips (what kind of teenager hates chips?!)

Re salt - that DOESN'T have to mean bland, use herbs and spices instead young children can have spicy food nothing too hot but no reason you can't use things like turmeric, coriander, garlic use a glaze on toast veggies etc

I well remember this stage I was tearing my hair out! She'd been eating well and then suddenly went off loads! And I didn't handle it well as I stressed and tried to make her eat more than she wanted to which of course didn't work. So I know how tough it is honestly do not stress there are very few children who will starve themselves at this age due to normal fussiness let her eat what she prefers but keep offering a LITTLE of other things my dd at this point was living on bloody fromage frais, wotsits and cooked cooled carrot sticks! I swear I was worried she'd turn orange! Hv was great and pointed out she was still getting enough nutrition from the fromage frais and milk she was drinking fibre and vitamins from the carrots plus she was occasionally eating other bits (which I didn't properly register until hv made me do a food diary). Hv gave me vitamin drops to put in her milk but honestly I think that was more for my benefit.

She's a long streak of 17 year old now who while slim eats me out of house and home! (Just not chips...or chocolate - seriously weird teenager )

I don't disagree at all about the salt/spices thing.

I never salt potatoes/pasta/veg myself I think it tastes fine without but once they try processed food out and about or at other people's houses maybe the lovely home made stuff tastes different

Oh DS did this when he was about 1 year old. I was devastated . Coincided with him being able to shriek 'NAH' funnily enough. When he came out of nursery with gravy round his mouth, announcing he loved 'Nursery Cabbage', when he was 2 was a particularly sad day . I just kept going. He's 13 now and eats pretty much anything! Still has an issue with wet food though like cottage pie and lasagne. But will eat the separate components iyswim.

It used to get me a bit upset when I'd spent ages cooking so I had to step away from the pots for a bit for my own sanity.

Luckily our nursery did proper home cooked food, DH cooked at the weekends and we just got by during the weekday evenings with basic food for a bit until the phase passed.

Massively adventurous foodie now so it was just a phase

My DD did this a bit at around that age. Snapped out of it a few weeks later. Try not to either panic or take it personally (I did both!)

In case it helps, the food that tempted her to eat more again was homemade (no salt!) curry with homemade chappatis (which are surprisingly easy to make) cut into fingers for her to use as dippers. So maybe it is the whole wanting stronger flavours thing.