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What do you feed your 2 year olds during the day?

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jade19 · 11/02/2019 22:14

My 2 year old has always been funny with food. He isn't keen on certain textures. Recently I have noticed that my eldest isn't eating his dinners. These are meals I know he loves and enjoys but he won't eat them. I know I am going to probably get back last for this but im a true believer of if, i make a meal and you don't eat it, I'm not making you another dinner. (obviously if this was something new I'm trying him on I dont have the same attitude.)
I have also noticed that he is CONSTANTLY eating throughout the day. I can make him a dinner and he will eat all of it and then he is asking for more food instantly.
My partner says that I should be offering him another meal but we physically can't afford to be throwing meals away because he just doesn't want it.
What I'm asking is do you gice your little ones? Do you gice set meals and only allow so many snacks a day or is it if your little ones are hungry you gice the what they want?
This isn't me being judgemental, i am trying to get my head around what I should/ could be doing.

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OneStepMoreFun · 11/02/2019 23:03

DS2 was very very fussy. I used to make up set of snacks from all the main food groups and then he couldpick at them during the day rather than sit down to a lunch he wouldn;t eat.

At dinner time he often rejected food. If he wouldn;t eat what I offered, I'd just open a tin of spaghetti hoops, grate soem cheese on and serve them with steamed veg microwave pouch or just some sliced fruit for dessert. Always stuff I knew he;d eat. Felt like some weeks they lived on tinned spaghetti, fish fingers and baked beans. But they survive. Don;t make it hard for yoruself. As long as they eat something from all the main food groups they are fine. For the snack lunches I;d do stuff like:
wholemeal finger sandwiches with cream cheese or peanut butter
cubes of cheese and ham
chunks of cucumber, apple, pear,
carrot sticks
rice cakes
dry cheerios
banana
bread sticks with humus or mashed avocado and natural yoghurt
set yoghurts or frubes

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