To be so excited about one pea?!

[welshnat]

My DS is such a fussy eater and lives in plain pasta and any kind I bread with cheese spread/Nutella. Well tonight he actually tried a pea!! He didn't like it but it's put the biggest smile on my face because he tried it without me even asking him to. I've been giving him a meal that he reuses to eat a few times a week and he alway goes to bed hungry, but this time he tried it and even ate some pastry from his chicken pie

I told him how happy I am that he tried the food and he just looked so proud of himself.

That's fantastic!

When my DD was little we went to a fish and chip restaurant I ordered her a child's meal which was a fish shape and chips, but someone had decorated the fish with a green pea for an eye! Talk about moan, she went on and on about it. I ate the pea for her but it did ruin her dinner. Thankfully she's grown out of all that now.

Oh OP, what's your secret? My 16 month old has gone on hunger strike. Hasn't eaten a thing all day. I actually growled in frustration at tea time, which made her cry, and the whole thing got worse from then on.

Shatter, if she's only gone on strike for a day, leave it. Every time your child refuses to eat, work out what they've had over the last week. It's usually enough. Food battles are not worth it, ever.

My secret was that I gave up trying! I have him what he wanted but added veg/meat that he always left. He just fancied a try today. Although he did enjoy that I told him he was eating MY peas

I thought you were growing peas and only one pea had grown... (like my blueberry plant that I nursed for 2 years to get 3 tiny blueberries. )

congratulations to ds.

Note to self, give up trying. I know you're right, and I do say to myself, don't make a big deal out of this, you'll onlyake it worse. But it's very hard isn't it? Well done OP's DS.

I love this thread. My son doesn't eat veg or meat despite the many, MANY ways I have tried to offer them to him.

I'm going to keep offering him the food with the hope he'll eat one pea

Well today has been very frustrating with a lot of yucks but I'm going to carry on pretending not to care. It is taking all of my willpower to not just shout at him to "Eat your bloody food!!" I was such a fussy eater as a child and now my father loves to tell me it's karma

My DD is a really fussy eater as well. Cheese and carbs she's fine with....fruit and veg (and any meat but chicken) she won't even try....

I remember being ECSTATIC because she took a bite out of a strawberry a few weeks ago.

And yes I was a really fussy eater...I'm still fussy but the things I like are usually healthy. I'm funny about textures mostly, I think DD is the same.

kim147 - it is the TRYING that's so frustrating isn't it? DD won't even eat baked beans (what kid doesn't eat baked beans). I can guarantee she'd like them if she tried (because of other things she eats) but she won't touch them...I know everyone has things they don't like, but at least TRY THE BLOODY THING!

DD is 3 so isn't that articulate yet.

DS refuses to eat any kind of vegetables unless he's at crèche when he will eat cucumber, carrots and cherry tomatoes....but won't eat them for me!! He doesn't been like potatoes of any kind. What kind of 2 year doesn't like mash or waffles?!

I'm looking forward to him starting school and hopefully eating food his friends eat too

I'm lucky that he will eat most fruit but I have I be very carefully excuse he has a very sensitive stomach so too much will end up in nappy rash. I have been told in a super taster - more taste buds than normal people so maybe he's the same I hope he's not and he's jut a fussy toddler because I find sausages spicy

DD loves spicy stuff, she loves potatoes, but will NOT entertain fruit or veg of any kind so I have to sneak it in stuff.

I still won't eat baked beans, but I'll eat almost anything else, baked beans are just wrong.

Fantastic op - food is such a pressure point for little ones, I remember getting so stressed about it. DS was so fussy when he was a toddler. Someone told me to put his food on the plate, not to comment, and to clear it away when he had told me he had finished, and not to give him anything else until the next meal. It was SO hard - I felt like I was starving him, but...

when he was about 3 I put carrots on his plate for 2 weeks straight before he ate one. When he finally ate one, I did a little dance in the kitchen (out of sight so he couldn't see me). They're now his favourite vegetable (he's 14!). Not trying was absolutely the best method for me, it took all the stress out of it and although I did waste some food, it was worth it in the end. He's been a plain eater most of his life, but has recently been trying chilli sauce and different flavours, & is surprising himself with what he likes.

NoodleOodle - I have met people who don't like them...but it's rare to meet a child who doesn't

(obviously children are people, but you know what I mean)

I find cold custard totally wrong....it gives me actual shivers if it's near me. Vile.

Can I be the first to say...give peas a chance?
That is ace, it's so difficult not to stress out over food. Very very well done to both of you.

I must've stressed my parents out so much I was so fussy - also hated mash, thick chips, anything where you could get the texture of the fluffy potato - not a chance.

Now if it doesn't move I eat it.

PaintedLady2014 Have you tried to give your DD baked beans straight from the tin? I'm not a lover of beans that have been boiled warmed up but I like them straight from the tin because the flavour is different.

What about putting them in a bowl on the table with a spoon in it and offering them round when you have a cold meal (some sort of salad or cold meat).

that's great my DS (3) is also a fussy eater but has actually started trying his dinner now and again! it sounds like a small thing but it's quite a relief cos I always wonder how he can feel alright on such small amounts I know I couldn't...

As bad as it sounds I'm looking forward to the day that DS will eat a McDonalds and then tell him 20 times a day he's not allowed one