1yo refusing foods HELP!!!

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My daughter is 15 months and she's just started to refuse dinners.... This has been going on for a while now she end up going to bed on some toast and raisins because she just doesn't even taste what I make her.... I am at my whits end and it's very frustrating when I'm standing for ages preparing her a fresh meal for it only to go to waste. She was a fantastic eater with fruit veg chicken fish, but now she's not eating prepared meals. Can anyone give me any tips to encourage her? Thanks.... D

No consolation at all, but…!
Mine was exactly the same. I was SO smug about how well she ate and at 15 months she just stopped. I think it coincided with excessive teething, but it went down to about a dozen things she would eat (items, not meals) and it stayed like that for what felt like forever.
Keep offering, do not only give her a limited selection, but expect that it will not all be eaten. Keep offering a variety. Don;t get stressed - I used to weep over it and clearly the only person who suffered was me. I hated binning whole dinners she would not even look at. It gets better - from about 3 it started to improve and has gone from there. SHe is now very adventurous and eats anything.

Is it only tea/dinner? In which case scale back and do not get emotionally invested in whether she eats or not. Present her with her dinner then try and do something else while you're in the room (eg tidy or something while you keep an eye on her out of the corner of your eye). I also found using a mini table and chairs helped with finger type foods so dd or ds could come back to their food when they wanted.
She could be tired, teething etc hence not eating. Or just simply wanting to exert control.

Could you make lunch her main meal? Sometimes they eat better because they aren't so tired.

I'd stop offering alternatives too, easier said than done though I know