What can I give 3yo who won't eat

[Mae1]

She loves anything sweet ( and the things she she shouldn't eat) but won't eat a meal. Tried sandwiches - won't eat those either.
Your help is desperately needed - PLEASE!

Have you tried roast parsnips,carrots,yorkshire pudding,green beans (or green chips as my dd1 used to call them)? DD1 wouldnt eat meal, but she enjoyed these as finger foods, and slowly began to eat more.....i gave up stressing about it, and she gave up being choosy!

BTW i don't mean all at the same time as that would obviously be a meal

Mine gets what his sister is eating and if he doesn't eat it, then it's tough luck. I have found when he is hungry enough he will eat.

Tiny little portions worked better for mine, i think she used to feel overwhelmed by all the food on her plate, i had to simplify it and do the whole 'make smiley face with ketchup thing' for a while. She's 8 now and eats most things.

Tiny little portions worked better for mine, i think she used to feel overwhelmed by all the food on her plate, i had to simplify it and do the whole 'make smiley face with ketchup thing' for a while. She's 8 now and eats most things.

Tiny little portions worked better for mine, i think she used to feel overwhelmed by all the food on her plate, i had to simplify it and do the whole 'make smiley face with ketchup thing' for a while. She's 8 now and eats most things.

sorry about that!

Waitrose do yummy frozen sweet potato chunks that you just bung in the oven, she might go for those if you were doing them with a roast?
I got my dd to eat raw carrot sticks the other day by dipping them in chocolate sauce. I also bribe her to eat veg now, biscuit for pudding if she eats all 3 bits of broccoli kindathing.

I agree with kittypickle

On his 'no eating' days, I let ds choose his own packet of dry pasta (usually circles or squares - M&S are good for this), and cook that, sprinkle with olive oil and parmesan cheese. Takes 10 mins, start to finish.

If I'm feeling lucky, I add brocolli but usually corn on the cob.

good luck!

OH, and rice or noodles (usually noodles) stir fried with garlic, ginger and soy sauce.

The thing to remember that if she's growing, not losing weight and has plenty of energy, she's getting enought food from SOMEWHERE! Healthy children do not starve themselves, and quite often children need far less food than we think they do.
My mother's inspiring words when I was obsessing about my dd's somewhat bizarre eating habits "It is a mother's job to provide regular, healthy, varied, appetizing meals. It is not a mother's job to make anyone eat them." This is scary, but liberating. They will eat when they are hungry - truely they will - particulary if there is as little enotional content to the meal as possible!