all my 3 year old will eat is beans

[firefly78]

or pasta. im slightly at my wits end.
he will have tuna, sandwiches, ham, fruit, cheese, jacket potatoes. he wil eat some dinner like shepherds pie, fish pie but generally he is so limited! my 7 year will eat anything. we did homemade pizzas today. he made his own yet still barely touched it, just cried cos the cherry tomatoes had been cooked. so again he hardly had any tea. i gave him some weetabix so he didn't go to bed hungry but still despair!!

Everybody i know eats mince in all forms and stew/casserole type things!

he does eat chocolate sweets cake biscuits etc but i presumed that was a given!

I have posted here before about my DDs limited diet. She's 4 and will eat shreddies with warm milk, toast, buttered bread, pancakes, spaghetti hoops, (smooth) yoghurts and those Ellas Kitchen pureed veg pouches. She likes most fruit thankfully. And that is it. Literally nothing else will pass her lips. It is a constant source of worry to me but I try not to show it. Am hoping its a very long phase and she'll one day start eating all the things she used to eat when we did baby led weaning! I live in hope!
She's perfectly happy and healthy, doesnt look malnourished and is bright as a button so its clearly not doung her any harm. If she ate the things your DS eats I'd cry with joy

macnab, I always reassured myself that very few adults end up eating only three or four very specific foods so the vast majority must get over this at some point.

I can't help wondering if some of those who don't are the ones whose parents couldn't ever learn to back off and let them get on with it. Although I imagine a fair few have diagnosed or undiagnosed autism spectrum disorders and it wouldn't have mattered how laid back their parents were about it.

My DD is now 11 and lot better than she used to be. Give her a yoghurt with bits in and she gags but she tries more things, will tolerate some things she doesn't like much for the sake of politeness when we are guests and will try things she has had a hand in preparing which is nice. I'm sure things will continue to improve as she gets older.

Your DD eats a lot of different things. I would be delighted if my DD ate that range of foods.

My DD exists on sausages, pizza, chips, brioche rolls, toast, plain rice, plain pasta and fruit. Sometimes a cheese sandwich.

If she tried something like fish pie then I would be so pleased. Anything that we could all together as a family dinner would be great.

My DS doesn't like most chocolate, sweets, cakes & biscuits! He's a contrary sort.

OP if you don't know anyone who's a veggie/vegan/doesn't like 'mixed up' food you must have quite a limited social circle.

It's not a particularly healthy diet to be eating so much red meat so it's not a type of diet I'd be worried about a dc refusing.

He's three. He's got a pretty wide range of foods he eats. He's getting to that age where he will realise that veg is 'yuck' and sweets are 'yum'.

Chill out and give him food he likes.

some of my vegetarian friends eat quorn mince!!! ;)