What's the smallest amount your healthy toddler has eaten in a day?

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Mine might have a subtle molar or something, but is going through a right picky phase. Didn't have more than half a spoonful of lasagne at lunch and only about a third of a bowl of his pasta with creamy bacon & mushroom sauce at tea (don't normally do double pasta BTW). He doesn't snack particularly much.

He did eat all his breakfast porridge and has eaten a couple of yogurts after (sort of!) his mains. Should I give him vitamins when he's being so picky? When does it stop?! DS is 2.2.

I've learnt (hypnotised myself, practically) to not be bothered by it and I don't curtail sweets because he won't eat savouries and avoided making a big deal of that (which most books say is bad).

Nothing. He is the epitome of King Controlling and Picky. It drives me nuts.

3 x Yoghurt's.

They don't need as much as you think they do to be fit and healthy. I have a healthy 4 yo who eats very little daily and is fine. Obviously just make sure that its a varied as possible and not just yoghurt's

Should add that that was a particulary bad day and he was poorly

My DD1 is 3.8 now and getting much better at eating properly. But she used to be incredibly fussy/uninterested in food. So it does improve!

I picked her up from a whole day at nursery once and she had only eaten an orange jelly that they had for pudding.

She is perfectly healthy.

Once when she was teething/ill, DD 17 months had two spoons of porridge and a yoghurt. That was it for the whole day (plus a morning bottle).

Sounds like you are doing all the right things WRT eating, OP, so try not to stress.

Mine has gone days on breadsticks and hummous and yogurt! Still fussy at 2.5 but at least will eat pasta now.

dd (20 months) barely eats one small meal a day sometimes (and that will be all she eats) and that will be for a couple of weeks at a time.

She is a big eater compared to ds at that age which makes it easier not to worry. She is also definately not underweight and is growing fine.

my dd is 3.2 and a very small eater (although not a picky one) - but she is also perfectly healthy. She rarely finishes even things that she really likes (e.g. cake, chocolate, ice cream)

I don't know how DD (aged 2) survives on so little TBH!!

Today for example: 1 weetabix
1 breadstick
Half a Blueberry Muffin
1 slice apple
Half a slice of toast and marmite
One bite of a fishfinger and a few peas
5 strawberries and about 3 spoons of yoghurt

This is supplemented by breastmilk but even so it seems v little. She is healthy size and weight and never ill though!

Thanks everyone - I am suitably pacified by your news. LOL at the orange jelly - not sure why particularly that one! Perhaps because I can imagine Edmund Blackadder saying it in the style of "...and a small dachshund, named Colin."

DS did actually deign to let me look in his mouth tonight and I can see his last molar coming through. Thank God! If he has another phase I will put it down to proper toddler petulance...

A banana and 2 bf (17mo)

I'm not including when ill because then I'd have to say nothing but I would honestly say that when ds was about 2-2.5 he survived on yogurt, cheerios and tomatoes. Literally. He wouldn't entertain anything else (though was given it obviously nonetheless).

He regularly had maybe 4-6 yogurts, 8 or so cherry tomatoes and maybe 10 small spoonfuls of cheerios.

He is 5 now and the tallest in his class by a long, long, way.

My youngest is 5 and still like this. He's got tons of energy, is a healthy weight and is fit-as-a-fiddle. I think he's going to be one of those grown-ups that "forgets to eat". He must be the milkman's .