Hi all, I know it's normal for kids to be fussy eaters, and my eldest was too and grew out of it, but my 3 year old DS seems to be taking things to a new level! He will not eat one bit of vegetable, or one piece of fruit. It's the fruit bit that I find the most odd - I've never known a kid to not eat a banana or a strawberry. He used to eat strawberries, up until about a year ago, now won't touch them or anything else. I am worried about his nutrition. This is what he eats:
A small amount of dry cereal for breakfast, such as rice crispy shapes or Shreddies, but NO milk.
Will drink oat milk on it's own though.
Yoghurt
Cheese
Bread (marmite sandwiches, mainly, or marmite toast)
Raisins
Kiddylicious oat bars/Soreen apple or banana bars
Breaded fish or breaded chicken for dinner (try to buy the kid's version from M&S as has less salt etc)
Hummous
Occasionally he will try a bit of my homemade pizza - this is the only time he gets any goodness as I make the sauce and it's just basically blended up veg. Unfortunately he won't eat much of it.
And that's it, obviously he likes to eat crisps, choc etc, but I'm not adding that to the list as he doesn't have much of it, of course.
We've tried EVERYTHING to get him to eat more, so I'm not looking for advise on that, what I want to know is - did anything else have a kid that ate this little and did it cause any problems? Or did they grow out of it? Do you think it's a massive concern that a child of that age has no fruit or veg?
Note - I do give a multi vitamin to him every day, not sure how much that helps.
Thank you
Stephanie