Despite doing everything possible when he was a baby and little toddler, DS who is 5 has been a terribly picky eater since he was about 3. Instead of it getting better like his brother, it's gotten worse. Particularly since he started school in the summer.
The past three days he's come home without eating any of his packed lunch (he won't touch the school lunches, unless it's pizza) and I'm at my wit's end trying to find him something to eat. He was eating buttered crackers, raspberries and apple, sometimes a banana, and a mini muffin for a while then traded the crackers for a tuna sandwich for about a month but now he'll come out of school at 3pm without eating anything. He will ask to eat his apple and muffin at 3 though so he at least likes them still.
He doesn't like cheese or ham or jam so sandwiches/wraps are a no go. He will eat the pastry off a sausage roll but not the actual sausage. He won't touch cucumbers, peppers, carrot sticks etc. He only likes munch bunch yoghurts (has one most mornings at breakfast) but will make a mess of his whole lunch box with one - if he eats it at all!
Dinnertime isn't much better but at least he isn't going another 3 hours before he gets the chance to eat something like if he skips lunch. Normally, it'll just be some peanut butter toast or something equally unexciting.
He is a healthy weight (and not losing any), growing as he should etc. but I am now wondering if I should speak to the GP and see if I can get advice from a dietician/nutritionist. Has anyone done this with a picky eater? What was the process?
In the meantime does anyone have any suggestions of what I could offer him for lunch? I'm losing my mind.