3 y o only eating raw fruit and veg, barely anything else!

[teaandkittehs]

Hi All, I realise it could be worse, but my 3 year one month old will largely only eat raw fruit and veg with barely any other food. She will also eat toast with peanut butter and honey in the morning most days, she eats rice, would eat sausages or bacon often if we let her (we don't often). She occasionally eats very very small amounts of chicken, ham, beef, boiled egg white, and bits of cheese. She will eat salted crisps, garlic bread, Breadsticks and some Humous. She loves nuts, too. But particularly for dinner at times including tonight she had just a few carrot sticks and half a Kiwi. I just worry about it as she largely subsists on low calorie food! She got somewhat fussy between 18 months and 2, but still ate a reasonable range of proper meals until she was 2 years 9 months but since then has refused any complete meals with mixed in ingredients. She's not yet losing weight and seems healthy but seriously eats bugger all! We've avoided chicken nuggets and turkey dinosaur type of food as we didn't want to get stuck in an unhealthy beige trap. . . .

Hopeful bump!

Does she drink much milk @teaandkittehs?

Some days none at all, and usually only at bedtime. She's asked for it over the past couple of days a couple of times but in life main she drinks very little of it now.

If she’s refusing her last meal, I wouldn’t worry too much. Lots of toddlers and preschoolers are tired at teatime.

Can you maje her breakfast and lunch more substantial?

So if she’ll eat peanut better on toast for breakfast and add a sliced banana in top and give her a cup of full fat milk.

Have you tried bits for lunch? We used to hide our fussy DD bits of whatever we had in. So things like hummus, carrot sticks, boiled egg, raisins, pitted olives, cheese. Just a little bit of whatever we had in.

Until about a week ago she ate a full fruit salad every morning before her toast but is more picky now although Watermelon and Kiwis are always accepted. We have bits for lunch and it will often include the kind of this you list, it is mainly dinner that's the problem. But she ate a reasonable range of normal meals for dinner in the evening until she was 2.9 years old, she's now 3 years 1 month and is really off dinner! We've tried it earlier and no really effect. She stopped napping at 2.5 so isn't newly tired in the evenings either. Just seems to have lost interest in substantial things, and is refusing most meat and fish at present whereas she used to eat a chicken drumstick or a piece of salmon, which was great. We often stillwater her some of what we are eating, on her plate, but she universally goes for the safe foods most of the time which is fruit, veg, rice or garlic bread!