About my non eating child?

[Tenlittlepiggies]

I’m kind of despairing, my nearly 3 year old is so fussy with food it’s now verging on ridiculous.
He’ll currently only really eat dry things like crackers and crisps. He will sometimes eat just crackers for breakfast. He’ll occasionally eat an apple and sometimes peas. It’s becoming so stressful, as every meal time most of the food gets thrown away. We’re not a particularly well off family, so it’s really soul destroying to see all that perfectly good food being chucked in the bin.

Is anyone in a similar boat? He’ll eat sweet things like chocolate and mini marshmallows too and ice lollies.

But won’t eat sandwiches, cheese, pizza, wraps, pasta, any type of meat, he’s recently even gone off fish fingers and chicken dippers which he used to eat when we were desperate.

Its so challenging and frustrating especially when I get certain family members or friends looking at me and questioning why he's not eating well and why hes not drinking juice and water I literally want to scream at them as they have no clue how overwhelming this is for me everyday!!
I try give him what he wants as the thought of him eating nothing makes me feel unsettled as hes hungry but because
of his sensory issues he will let himself starve rather than try new things ....I have a plate that separates his food so I can keep trying to encourage him to try things without forcing him I always let him have a choice.....I just hope he will get through this awkward stage of eating ill probably cry whdn he does......for the first time today he made me cry with happy tears as he shouted 'mummy come here' for the first time he communicated made me very happy.
I'm gonna have a look at ARFID now thankyou for responding as its nice to not feel alone in this.