9 year old refusing food

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Hi all, I’d love your wisdom and insight on this. My 9 year old DD has quite suddenly started to refuse breakfast. I ask at the beginning of the week what she wants for breakfast, it’s usually cereal or crumpets or porridge, but I will put it down in front of her and she will have a couple of bites then claim she is full. She also says she has a sore tummy every morning that goes away before she arrives at school. She has also become fussy with other foods saying they taste “off”, or has a hugely specific criteria for the food she eats and if it doesn’t look right, won’t eat it.

For context me and DH have been eating better and exercising the past 6 months so have spoken a lot more about calories and had a real focus on healthy foods etc, we no longer talk about it with her in earshot as I’m concerned that this might be contributing to her refusing meals.

She would eat sweets and crap foods until they were coming out her ears however!

Would love some advice on how to handle this situation. TIA

Is there anything going on at school that might be worrying her? Sometimes children won't eat if they're anxious and the tummy ache links in with that.
Some people just don't enjoy breakfast though, my husband can't eat in the morning and my daughter is similar, although I do manage to get a light breakfast into her most days. So it could be that, but with her increasing fussyness about food it might be worth trying to get to the bottom of it.
Definitely try to make meal times as stress-free as possible, and don't focus on how much she's eaten. Your 'job' is to provide her with a healthy range of food, and her 'job' is to decide how much of it she's going to eat. If you stress about her food intake it's likely to increase problems unfortunately.