To only feed DS beans on toast or pasta

[NoNarnas]

19 month old DS will only eat beans on toast or pasta. Unless it’s a Sunday when he will sit nicely at my parents house and eat a Sunday dinner.

Last nights pork, potatoes and carrots were untouched while he asked over and over for a banana. He had a snack at the childminders mid afternoon so I didn’t give him pudding and he just had milk before bed.

Tonight is beef casserole. He tried one piece of carrot and one piece of potato and then again just asked for banana. I’ve not done any pudding again and have taken him from the table. He hasn’t eaten since lunch at the childminders at 12.

The only things I can present at tea time that he will touch are beans or pasta! How do I encourage him to eat better? At this age am I right in not doing anything else if he doesn’t eat his tea?

Did you give him the banana?

He’s still so so little I really wouldn’t feel comfortable just not feeding a baby because it didn’t like what I was giving him
Going from lunch until breakfast with no food is just too long imo

Serve what you plan to serve but always make sure there is at least one thing on the plate you know he will eat.

Mine wouldn’t get dessert unless they’d eaten a good portion of main. They’re varied eaters now as teensgers. Do you say he can eat banana if he eats 1/4 or 1/2 might that work?

Will he eat different sauces in the pasta and maybe you could try rice noodles to mix it up a bit?
DD ate everything i gave her until about 18 months and is gradually getting fussier I know what its like.

No I didn’t give the banana. I don’t think he understands well enough to get “eat your dinner then you can have the banana”. I will do him some toast or a crumpet before bed so he has had something.

It’s hard to include one thing on the plate he will definitely eat as that is either beans or pasta! I know he will eat carrots and potato, he eats loads of them on a Sunday!

I eat with him, we both have the same, I let him serve himself and he likes doing it. But he still won’t eat his dinner!

At lunch he had- a sandwich, some cheese, strawberries, blueberries, a banana, a mini malt loaf, some raisins and a biscuit. He eats loads at breakfast and lunch, but barely anything for tea.

My son became very fussy at this age too. It lasted until he was 3. I just went along with it despite people telling me I was encouraging him to be fussy , I would rather he ate something . His menu was very limited - but as he got older he started bowing to peer pressure - eating what his friends at nursery ate. Now he's 4 we can say ' eat this up and you'll be big and strong' etc etc . He's very adventurous now and it isn't an issue

given he has eaten well in the day, why not give him the banana?

I forgot to add i supplemented him with vitamins throughout his fussy phase . And it was just a phase. I would advise you to just ride it out

I didn’t want to encourage the dinner refusal but demand fruit routine. I will let him have the banana in half an hour when he doesn’t associate it with leaving his dinner.

He doesn’t speak yet so he can’t explain what he does and doesn’t like.

I think I’d just trust his appetite, given he’s eating well at other meals.

At this age mine all had their main meal at lunchtime and sandwichey/beans on toast type food at dinner time when they’re more tired and less likely to be cooperative
You could try that?

It sounds like a good lunch. Could you just give him something light later, like a supper type dish?

Or what PinkBall said.

It’s hard to include one thing on the plate he will definitely eat as that is either beans or pasta!

How is that hard? you just do beans or pasta and put it on his plate with the rest of his dinner.

I'm also doing main meal at lunchtime.

I'd give beans and pasta every evening if it's all they'd eat.

He can't speak but he can ask for a banana? He can express his likes and dislikes!

I have no advice as two out of three of my kids are fussy little buggers. Just sending sympathy. I think at 19 months he is still very little to be overly concerned, though, and it sounds like he eats really healthily at lunchtime!

I'd try reverse psychology with this one, given that he eats this stuff at GPS, it does sound like he might be playing you a bit mine was terrible for this at this age onwards fir a few years

When serving a meal, give him a cut up banana on his plate & nothing else, don't offer the meal you are eating. It not been offered should make it more interesting & he should hopefully then ask for it. Act reluctant if he does & say, oh, but that's big boy food, I didn't think you were a big enough boy for that yet & let him complain for a bit before giving in & giving him your food

serve what you have each night with a portion of beans or small portion of pasta along side? Will he eat bread and butter?

My 3 year old, hes a bit fussy and I serve what we have with something I know he will eat so if we have salmon potatoes and peas he won't eat that I will compromise and give him fish fingers instead of salmon with potatoes peas and bread and butter. He will eat the fish and bread and butter then a pudding and milk and a biscuit before bed. So if you were serving that instead of peas serve his with beans he will start trying new bits on his plate eventually and dont make a big deal if he doesn't eat it or try it.
With this method my Ds3 will now eat cheese
chicken
meatballs
beef
turkey
sasuages
bacon
Any type of chip/potato things
wraps
pitta
pizzas
when before he wouldn't even entertain them he still wont touch veg though

Could you try offering a meal at lunch time instead and lunch type food at dinner?
Or maybe he is eating too much at lunch before dinner andnisnt very hungry?

Because Zibbidoo he would simply eat the portion of beans or pasta and leave the rest! The whole point is that I don’t really want him only eating these things.

Pink it’s a good does but he is at a childminders during the day so I have to send a pack up.

Plus, frustrating as it is, at least you know that once a week he's consuming a big, healthy meal! (Cheeky thing!😁)

It's never too early to teach them. He'll eat when he's hungry but he'll never be hungry if you give him other food

Brutus he uses some sign language and banana is his most used one!