Tantrums over food

[Jfoz22]

My LO is 18 months old and for the last few months she has been really difficult. When I’m preparing any meals or snacks she just screams and is so impatient. I thought she may just be hungry and I left it too late to feed her but she does it anytime. When she’s had a snack she brings her bowl into the kitchen and bangs on the cupboard door and screams.

Anyone else experienced this?

I've not experienced this sorry, it sounds stressful.

Does she constantly want food?

It is stressful and does make preparing meals difficult. She does like her food and eats well.

What do you give her. Maybe she still feels hunger? Some cubes of omelette fill you in a very different manner than ultra-processed baby snacks such as rice cakes or puffs

LeGrand makes a good point about the possibility of hunger. There's a great guide from the Caroline Walker Trust that gives sample menus, snack suggestions and portion sizes.

They do one for teens too which massively helped me to sort out DS' eating

@JiltedJohnsJulie Thank you for this link. Whilst I give her the right foods, Her snacks are not as big as this! I'd give her a satsuma, or a yoghurt, I wouldn't give her both. Think I'll in crease her snacks!!

At 18 months I think my DS would have eaten me if he only had a satsuma between meals

Give her crunchy food as well not only soft snacks. Having to bite and chew on an apple or pear brings more satisfaction.

Sorry but I don't share the praise for the website linked. Canned fruit, diluted juice at every breakfast AND dinner, orange jelly (it's an animal carcass boiled to the pulp!) , custard, and spicy potato wedges as afternoon snack?

There is so much fresh fruit to enjoy why hook a child on industrial snacks.
Think about strawberries, melon, watermelon, banana, kiwi and as I said apple, pears.
And give some crunchy vegetable for lunch as well.
Avoid white bread, white rice and so on, whole grains are healthier and more filling.