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My 4 year old will ONLY eat pasta and cheese for his tea!

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Snowfun · 13/01/2010 21:27

Thats it nothing else! He will eat a normal enough breakfast - although not always and usually only after persuasion and he has a normal packed lunch at preschool (he goes 2.5 days a week)plus he has snacks at preschool of toast in the mornings and fruit in the afternoons but he will only pasta and cheese for his tea. We have tried giving him other food that the rest of the familys eating and refusing to give him an alternative, bribery with offers of chocolate etc everything but nothing works.

THe other day we had beef stew and dumplings (he used to eat that) and he refused to eat any of it so I tried bribing him to try it nothing so I said well there is nothing else on offer and stuck to it. The next morning I felt awful because he woke up feeling awful no energy had to be helped down the stairs and complained of feeling wobbly. After 2 bananas and a cup of milk he was fine! So now I am giving his pasta and cheese everyb night while ds2 and myself have our proper tea.

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TracyK · 15/01/2010 11:29

Is he old enough to understand nutrition?

I can't remember what age my ds was when I started to explain the nutritional value of things ie - salmon and chicken help take away cuts and scratches, carbs fill you up, milk and cheese help your bones and teeth etc.

Now I cheer when he gets a scraped knee - a couple of nights worth of salmon for dinner with no tantrums!

Also he has tried a few things on the back of cartoons - ie Garfield loves lasagne - so now it is sometimes his favorite dinner.

Also leave a couple of little dishes close to his place with carrots or broccoli or some wee nibbly things - he might reach out and nibble on them if you don't mention it.

I also find taking him out for lunch/dinner expands his horizons.
But you may still have 6 months or so before he passes this phase he's in.

piscesmoon · 15/01/2010 11:42

You will be very lucky if he wants to understand nutrition and apply it!

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