Feeding up and down/seaweed question

[babypinkelephant]

My two year abs three month old used to eat quite well but this past week she's eating little to nothing at lunch or tea.

She has a good breakfast of porridge (with a small drizzle of honey) yogurt and a piece of fruit but after this it's a disaster.

I'm making her all the foods she usually eats but she eat a couple of pieces and that's it.

Tonight she had a cheesey breakfast omelette (using up bits and pieces and I'd say she ate half) some potato shapes (which she left) and pea and sweetcorn (which she is now slowly munching through)

Does anyone else's toddler go through stages of eating really well then not at all? She also goes through stages of eating with a spoon/fork then wanting to eat with her hands

Also she loves seaweed from a supermarket in a Japanese bento box but is it a vegetable or what? I know it good for her but wanted to know what it was

Thanks

I think most children eat heartily some days and then appear to live off virtually nothing on other days. I'd try to look at what she eats over a week rather than a day or even a single meal. It might help you to relax a little when she's not hungry.

As fir the seaweed, that's a vegetable surely?

I googled it and seaweed is an algae, who knew!

If it is this seaweed (click on the second picture to see the product in a dish)
www.ichibajunction.com.au/products/detail.php?product_id=998007197
it is full of sugar, syrup, colouring and flavour enhancing. Sorry, the reason she likes it is because it tastes fake .

groceries.asda.com/product/sushi-ingredients/yutaka-sushi-nori/910000339386

This says the only ingredient is 100% seaweed

The one you linked is not sold in a bento box @RedGoldAndGreene .
There are also the roasted seaweed snack , the flakes, ....

There are many seaweed products, but not all are equally good.

She likes both of them

Try to eliminate the fake coloured and sweetened ones and go for the nori sheets

Thank you but the seaweed was a side question to the main part l. Anyone have any advice on that but ?

Yes mine is 3 and she will hardly eat anything some days and can't be filled up the next. Tbh I make a point of paying zero attention to what my 3YO eats and not fussing about it and she is not at all picky. I think the key at this age is just making plenty of fresh food available but not blanket banning processed/sugary food but just making plenty of the good stuff availabile and giving plenty of chance to exercise too. They're not daft. They will eat what they need to x

@Jannt86

Yes mine is 3 and she will hardly eat anything some days and can't be filled up the next. Tbh I make a point of paying zero attention to what my 3YO eats and not fussing about it and she is not at all picky. I think the key at this age is just making plenty of fresh food available but not blanket banning processed/sugary food but just making plenty of the good stuff availabile and giving plenty of chance to exercise too. They're not daft. They will eat what they need to x

Thank you that was a very helpful post xx