Super picky eater.

[Echomama]

She eat raw food, or meat. That's about it.
Nothing mixed together, and heaven forbid I even think about giving her anything made from potato.
I just want to make the same meal and everybody eat it instead of being a short order chef for a 3 year old.
Please help! What did you do?
We currently trying the - this is the o ly food you can have, breakfast lunch and dinner until you've eaten it- thing. She's more than happy to go hungry. Hasn't even had half a bloody teaspoon of it but has watched her 8 month old sister devour it.

Do you think she chooses to not eat other food (i.e. I do not like it, rather have something else) or do you think she might be unable to eat other food (i.e. problems with texture, smell, etc - food sensitivity issues)? you can get a feel for this by observing how she reacts to other food. Does she handle other foods with her hands? does she at least taste them or even smell them? or is she repulsed by them, i.e. goes to extreme lengths to avoid them (causes panics, vomits, tries to escape the situation if she is being forced to eat something new). Children that have food sensitivities describe eating certain textures in food as asking an adult without food sensitivenesses to eat razor blades.

Read the book Getting the Little Blighters to Eat by Claire Potter. It is a quick and easy read to dip in and out of, but gives you good basic advice to try without being too wordy.

My DS(4) has been an extreme fussy eater since he was 14 months but since starting Reception is finally eating a variety of food for the first time since he was an older baby. Some children are just plain fussy and/or maybe trying it on with you to get you to give them different food, a small amount of children may have sensory issues as the pp said.

If she’s just plain fussy try not to worry too much and attempt to follow the basic principles of the book (much of which is standard advice you’ll read anywhere), as you will probably find like us the GP and Dietician are not bothered if the child is in good general health, and are growing well with height and weight in proportion.

I don't think it's a food sensitive issue. I mean she wolfs down soggy weetabix, but won't have mash, devours crisps out of the packet but as soon as she sees me making them at home won't even touch them, will happily eat plain pasta and mascapone seperately but as soon as they are together they are 'slimey' and refused to even entertain the idea she actually likes them yet sucks the slimey gross seedy middle from tomatoes... Also, one day she may demolish a food type but refuse it the very next day saying she doesn't like it and it makes her sick. Gaaahhh. Children!
Crocodile tears with a lot of it too. My pet hate.
Will definitely look into that book though! I'm at my wits end with her and food...
Biggest regret is not just giving her exactly what I had on my plate instead of this 'don't give them x y and z before a year old, introduce one food at a time' bs

Also, I have no idea on her weight. She's super skinny but always has been, even during pregnancy, but we don't own a set of scales, nor do I even have a doctors at the minute! So I can't really tell, but she's definitely tall and growing taller! Little string bean.