Arghhh - DD on the Atkins diet at 18months....

[brightongirldownunder]

She's just not a fan of carbs, infact she's plain weird, though I love her to bits.
Favourites - gherkins, anchovies, olives, anything strong tasting or garlicky, fish, meat, cheese, milk, yoghurts, all vegetables apart from potatoes, pretty much any fruit.
She'll eat meat and fish until its coming out of her ears
Dislikes - pasta, bread, potatoes, cake, rice, cereal, biscuits
she will eat these but in real moderation - it takes an hour in the morning for her to have a bowl of cereal or a piece of toast. If I offered her bacon, ham, fruit, it wouldn't be a problem and would have been munched down in minutes.

What on earth is wrong? Does anyone else have this problem?

She's perfectly healthy and still has her puppy fat, but its so frustrting. I know that there's thread after thread about fussy eaters, but I would only label her fussy about carbs, and I haven't met anyone else who has been through this

I wouldn't worry about it, and I wouldn't waste time working on getting cereal in her. Nothing wrong with bacon, ham and fruit for breakfast! (well, maybe it's a bit salty)

If she eats fruit, then she'll get sugars, and carbs, from there (bananas have lots of carb). And milk has sugar in it too. The only nutritional value carbs have is as sugar, as that's what they break down into.

I'd worry a little bit about her ending up with too high-fibre a diet this way (e.g. v runny poop), but I wouldn't stress much at all.

Toddlers are all freaks.

(Oh, would she go for strong-tasting garlicy sauce on pasta or rice?)

I have the opposite. DS won't eat any meat, fish, chicken, green vegetables. Lives off pasta, bread, tomatoes, sweetcorn and beetroot and carrot cake that I make to get veggied into him.

I think you're quite lucky really if she eats vegetables nad fish, dairy products. There are carbs in many vegetables and flavoured yoghourts and fruits.

Thanks guys, just wish sandwiches, spaghetti etc could be on the menu, its such a bore...

I would agree with the 'Toddlers are all freaks' assessment

My DD (25mths) is on some wierd food combining diet, I think - she only eats one food group per day - so on carb day she will eat pasta and leave sauce, on meat day she will pick the ham out and leave the rest, on veg day she will pick out all the peas and demand more....you get the picture.

Mornings - will she eat bananas? Loads of carbs in there. DD demands toast but doesn't eat it, has cereal but dry (with a separate cup of milk) and hardly eats any of that.

[sigh] - at least it is motivation for me to get her to nursery on time so that breakfast becomes their challenge

Wobbly - maybe we should get them together, imagine how they would clean up each other;s plates with the leftovers!

Stealth, she ate bananas until today, when she lobbed the whole thing at me and stuck her tongue out.

Ah - the next phase of nuttertoddlerdom - the look of 'what are you trying to poison me with that for, woman?' when presented with something you ate 5 portions of yesterday

Bless them

Ah yes, that look. Got that the other day when she was offered .....dare I say it.... a chip. Completely gaga.

I try to hide single peas inside stuff he likes. He chews on it then mananges to separate the pea, spit it out into his hand and put it into my food/drink.. Lovely!

oooh my dd is exactly the same brightongirl. smoked salmo and olives are her absolute fave she is 14 months old

have you tried yorkshire puddings? for ages they were the only carbs my dd would eat...now I can get her to eat some potato waffle or hash brown...

and to think before i had dd i was all self righteous saying "no child of mine will eat processed food, it will all be healthy and exactly the same as what us adults eat" i'd be dead chuffed if she ate just one chip!!

oh dd also loves beans of all types, bean salads, baked beans etc, and they are carbs, have you tried your dd with beans?

My DD2 will not eat potato,chips,pastry or the bread from sandwiches. Will eat meat,fish,olives,houmous and bread on its own...sometimes.
I stare at children who will eat pastry with fascination. None of mine will eat it.
They are great arent they.