Hi,
I am wondering if anyone can give me some tips.
My son is 2. He used to be a reasonably good eater of solids but after about 18 months he's fully refusing most home cooked food.
I probably made my own bed, because when we relocated to the UK mid last year we were staying with family while house hunting and to make life easier we fed him a lot of ready meals.
Now that I'm trying to get him to eat with us, or even just home cooked foods, it's a total struggle. Even food he used to eat happily is becoming difficult. The number of foods I can guarantee he'll eat I can count on one hand. At really bad times it is basically yogurt (but only the one from a pouch at 70p a pop).
So if we don't have a ready meal on hand (and it's getting so expensive we just can't justify it anymore) there are often big dinner meltdowns.
In desperation we often end up bringing something we are sure he'll eat like beige crackers or a yogurt pouch. Which I'm sure is only making the situation worse because be knows a tanty gets him what he wants.
He eats well at nursery, there is very little he doesn't eat there (grr!). But at home he just flat out refuses and cries like I'm trying to poison him.
I try my best not to react and not to just keep producing foods in the hopes he will eat. I've told myself he just isn't hungry and put him down to sleep, then had him wake starving at 2am.
As I sit here he's eating my last ditch attempt after 2 dinners refused - a slice of bread - albeit at a glacial pace.
If anyone has any ideas/strategies to try I'd be grateful.
Thank you ☹️