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My 2 year old won't eat anything I cook, I'm sick of it!

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leah1991 · 21/01/2021 13:29

Past few weeks my daughter has refused to eat everything I cook lately. I am a good cook and I offer her variety. I cook anything from meatballs in a plum sauce, beef with a BBQ marinade, shephards pie, lasagne, sausages and mash, quieche with roast potatoes and broccoli, chicken casserole, chilli, vegetable gratin and do on. You get the picture, I cook alot of things homemade. I've even tried cooking vegetarian things in case she didn't like meat. There is hardly one thing I haven't offered her. I offer her three meals a day, but she is being so fussy lately. If she puts any in her mouth, she has one chew and spits it out. She was never this fussy before. I'm sick to the back teeth of making perfectly adequate nourishing healthy food that she refused to eat. I even took her to see the doctor as I was worried but he says there was nothing wrong with her, it's just typical for the age. My HV said just offer her a meal and if she doesn't eat it then she goes hungry. I've been doing this and it's only been a couple of days. She doesn't have tongue tie or any tooth problems. She's not teething. I've cut down her liquid intake in case she was getting too full on that . What the hell do I do about this? She'd eat a plate a fish fingers or chicken nuggets but I'm not going to just give her chicken nuggets and fish fingers all the time. I refuse to be a short order cook as she will expect it all the time.

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FortunesFave · 21/01/2021 13:38

It's annoying but also completely normal as the doctor says. What you don't do is take it personally...which you seem to be doing.

I have yet to meet a toddler who hasn't been through this phase.

Just deliver her food and say nothing when she doesn't eat it...

Rinse and repeat.

She'll eat it eventually.

leah1991 · 21/01/2021 13:45

I just thought I'd also add she's still eating fruit, yoghurt, toast and cereals and bloomin chicken nuggets or fish fingers if I give her the chance

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leah1991 · 21/01/2021 13:47

Hi fortunrsfave.

I hope she does eat it eventually. It's really hard for me as her mother to watch her not wanting to eat. It makes me really worry Sad I'm glad you say most toddlers do this

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Jannt86 · 21/01/2021 14:00

It sounds like you're probably getting very worked up about it and she's recognising that. I also make a lot of effort to cook various things and my duaghter eats varying amounts. Yesterday though I made her a lovely sausage and lentil casserole which she normally loves but she was having none of it. That's fine. She might be trying it on and just trying to get a reaction from me or score a different meal. Sorry kid but no way to either of those. You can have what I made or wait til morning. Or possibly she's simply not hungry. Also fine. I don't want her to learn to eat for the sake of it and encourage her to stop when she's full. Mine is generally not fussy and there's very little that she literally refuses to eat. I think that's because we just put stuff in front of her and don't make a big deal of whether she's eating or not. It is frustrating when they don't eat something that you put lots of effort into but it's part of raising a toddler. Just try again tomorrow and if you don't want her to eat chicken nuggets then don't give her them. Honestly though there's nothing wrong with that either once in a while .... Grin

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