Dd2 who is 2.5 years hardly eats a thing

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Anyone have this problem? Got told by dietician to stop her milk which we have done but she hasn't really improved on eating. The main issue is she will not try anything new and she eats mainly carbs. Her sole diet is mainly bread, cereal, chips, crackers, fromage frais, custard, Ella's kitchen 4 month smoothies, and the occasional chicken goujon after considerable cajoling if not bribing! She'll eat rubbish of course....! She'll eat a pancake - with sugar on : o (

She's quite wilful and has been to a dietician. As u can imagine they are not overly worried as she is growing slowly and hitting milestones. Q frankly it's embarrassing and feel we can't take her out to. Friends as she's so darn fussy. Dd used to eat fish fingers, blueberries - but won't eat these now. My son did get better 3 plus but he at least ate cheese/ meat prior to that. Dd doesn't.

Any successful stories out there that their kids went from living on fresh air to eating a good variety of foods. Any tips?

No tips. Just sympathy.

DS(2) made himself sick tonight after we tried to get him to eat proper food.

I'm now going to try cutting out every bit of crap from his diet possibly excepting the one polomint I use to get him to sit in the supermarket trolley and cut out "sweet" snacks too. So food will be breakfast, fruit for mid morning snack, lunch, breadstick or similar after waking from nap, dinner. If he doesn't eat it - tough.

It's going to be a nightmare to say the least, and I will have to speak to friends we play with so they're not offering him snacks (or maybe only healthy fruit that I'll take along) but I can't think what else to do.

Maybe we can have a picky eaters support thread!

Biggest tip I have is not to make a big deal. Offer food, if it's eaten ok, if not, ok. We comment on table manners but not whether a plate is cleared. Ds1 is nearly 5 used to be super picky and will now try most things, and although he doesn't eat everything or unfamiliar things much, he is growing, food is not a battle and he is polite when eating at friends. The dts are also picky. It's frustrating, but I know it will get better.

I was a picky child, and food became such a big deal that I ended up an underweight teen with a very restricted diet. My aim is to avoid that for my kids.

I would cut out the rubbish, and the cajoling/bribing. If she is growing then she is eating enough. Also try and involve her in shopping and eating. It's not immediate, but it does gradually make food more familiar if they know how it's made. At 2, she can help beat an egg, sit on the surface to watch you cook up an omelette, cut it up once cool. Then you eat it, with the plate positioned so she can try a piece. May take 10 attempts before she does, but that approach has worked well for us.

We have a resistant eater thread on here - come and join us. Lots of us in the same position and some really good advice.

My DS 2.5 is similar - in fact the list of acceptable foods is pretty much identical, though she will eat plain pasta, nuts, tiny bits of peeled apple and occasionally satsuma (if we sing "fruit salad, yummy yummy" in the manner of the wiggles). We keep on serving up portions of what the rest of the family are having, but more often than not he just says "really horrid" or looks at me bemused and asks to get down from the table.

He's my third child, otherwise doing fine, but I cannot help but worry.

Where's that resistant eaters thread?

Posted before about this book it's v. good

www.amazon.co.uk/My-Child-Wont-Eat-mealtimes/dp/1780660057/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1356641145&sr=1-1

Here it is:
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/behaviour_development/1607441-resistant-eater-support-thread-come-and-join-me
This is also good:
www.infantandtoddlerforum.org/c/document_library/get_file?uuid=a9fbda7a-8d4c-4faf-8cd5-2764796f81f6&groupId=11803