Morning
Well, I still have baby napping so thought I'd ask for some advice about my ds. I was going to put this in either the parenting or food section but I thought I'd try you clever lot first as you've probably been through this more than me.
Ds is 4 and a half and always been a good eater, not into too much junk food, drinks water blabla, all very good. Since around the time we got back from holiday, he seems to have gone off a lot of things, especially cooked vegetables.
I've been very lucky to have only had 1 fussy eater before but she was a lot younger.
My lunchtime problem is all he ever wants to eat for lunch is either cheese or cheese and marmite sandwiches. He's fine with the same old wholemeal bread, just the filling becoming more of a problem. We try new things every now and then and he has times when he's a lot more adventurous but most of the time, he will not eat the sandwich if it's not cheese and marmite (we do cheese on toast and he's fine with that, pita bread he's fine with, it's just sandwich fillings). He's good with other stuff he has on his plate with it: carrot sticks, cucumber chunks, bits of sliced up ham or chicken (but won't eat these in the sarnie), tomato chunks, cold pasta salad, every now and then he'll eat some lettuce leaves. Oh....and he's better when he helps make the lunch but still, he tries to get out of putting anything in his sarnie that's not got cheese in.
Dinner time - he'll ALWAYS ask for 'something with rice and beans'. The rice is wholegrain and I know beans aren't that bad but he will no longer eat up his mashed potato/new potato/carrots/broccoli, sometimes he eats his peas, baby corn etc but other times he won't.
I don't want to make a huge fuss and cause meal time arguements as attention is only going to make it worse. I try new things from time to time but most of the time it's YUCK and then he moans he's hungry.
Any idea's???? New meal idea's??? Idea's of how to deal with this?
Oh.....baby has finally woken up so I best go but TIA