Selective eating

[Claire129]

Just been reading on the internet about my 4 year old, really worried about him as he is a very fussy eater and has been for 3 years now. Only eats a selection of foods, them being:
Weetabix
Asda cheerios
Sausage rolls
cocktail sausages
bread and butter
yoghurts/fromage frais
vanilla or strawberry icecream
chicken nuggets (only birds eye batter ones or Mcdonalds)
Cheddars
Bananas
scotch pancakes
pink and whites
kit kats
penguins
chocolate buttons/milky bar
terrys chocolate orange
custard cream biscuits
Full fat milk
Fresh orange
Yoghurt drinks (like actimel)
He will only eat this stuff and its not like he has a sweet tooth because if you offered him a chocolate biscuit he would say no thank you, it has to be what he knows. He wont eat a bar of chocolate only milky bars. I am at my witts end and wonder if anyone else has this problem. Looking on the net it says he has selective eating disorder. Ive been to see our GP several times who says he is growing and is healthy, hes fine stop worrying. I give him vitamins every day to ensure he is getting all he needs, am I over reacting? I love him to pieces and have 2 girls who eat almost anything, I just feel so alone and hope I am not alon ein this one x

Boys tend to be fussy so don't worry. If you introduce new foods make sure it's alongside stuff he knows. Let him help prepare veg but don't make an issue of him eating it - it's more about familiarity.

tbh I don't know if dd likes all the stuff on your list as I haven't offered it to her. She has had chocolate and cake but not the variety on your list, and I haven't offered McDonalds - sorry but that's just me. She did go through a stage of refusing to eat meat - seeming to really hate it, but we made sure she had baked beans for protein and one day at a friend's house she tucked into roast chicken and has eaten it ever since. Sometimes I have to remind her she likes things but as long as she tries food I don't get cross. If she won't try it she goes to the step.

HV told me (with dd's meat thing) to give her 4 months of not stressing then reintroduce - if she freaks then give it a few months again so eating is a relaxed time not tense as that can cause more problems.

Boys not liking veg seems to be something that runs through all my dd's boy friends. If gp isn't concerned don't worry.

He's 4 years old, so maybe you can ask him to help you prepare some meals? My daughter has days where she wont eat proper food - so the following day I ask her to help me in the kitchen, and when she prepares her own plate she eats everything.
Maybe introducing him to new food, by asking him to help cook it will get him to eat new foods?