can you indulge me and tell me what your one year old eats?

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I have a 19 month old baby who is not fussy as such, but eats in tiny quantities.
On a good day, he'll have - half a weetabix with milk,
six bites of pasta and brocolli, vanilla yoghurt,
6 bites of a blueberry muffin,
half a little bowl of chicken casserole with potatoes and carrots.

He used to eat an actual plateful of food, but hasn't done for about 4 months. Still drinks milk though. When he's sick, he won't eat a thing.

Ds (19 months) is quite erratic in his eating.

Breakfast: his most reliable meal: weetabix or oatibix with fruit, slice of toast and jam.

Lunch: sandwich (one slice of bread), but most is fed to the dog, banana

Dinner: some days eats next to nothing, other days (rarer) lots. Will only eat pasta or noodles at the moment. Will not eat anything involving potato or rice.
Yoghurt to follow if he is in an eating mood.

starlight -when you say 'He can turn down food due to lack of hunger' how can you tell? Could it be that he was hungry at 5pm and wasn't hungry earlier? Not having a go at all - I'm just curious.

Starlight, I think that's really pretty unpleasant, actually.

So he's not yet one, but he's learning that he eats what YOU decide he should eat, and in the quantities YOU decide

I really think you're setting up some quite interesting issues for when he's older with this.

You might want to read this book. I would really recommend it, because the language you're using to describe the way you got your son to eat gives me shivers. Truly.

Starlight, are you sure you are not just going to have to do the whole thing over for the next food he tries to dislike?

How far would you push it? How hungry should he get before he gives in to what you want?

blimey, starlight... what if he just doesn't like avocado? i absolutely HATED it until i was an adult.

Its so reassuring to hear other people's stories. My DD has just turned one and has always hardly eaten any solids. I have never force fed her, despite my MIL and SIL telling me I should. Starlight what are you trying to teach your DS, it was a very upsetting post to read?

My Child Won't Eat book is very good- would highly recommend it.

My DD will only really eat bread and pasta refuses rice always and potatoes sometimes. I am trying to increase variety slowly and hiding vegetables into tomato pasta sauce.

I'm being advised my HV and hospital dieticians to stop BF my DD to get her to eat more solids - sigh... She has dropped from 91st to 75th percentile so she still looks rather round to me and is very tall.

Oh starlight, please dont do that again.

It could be worse...I have to sing "the Grand old Duke of york" the whole way through to get my 10 month old to eat one spoonful of dinner.
He sits and cries and grizzles in his chair, but then as soon as I start to sing it he sits up and opens his mouth. Each meal takes ages and I am sure my neighbours think I am mad!

Starlight why did you bother to try and feed him every hour. You could have just said fine you aren't hungry and then feed him again at dinner time. Sorry sitting him in the highchair every hour is cruel and totally unnecessary.

Tapster, that's what I was thinking

But you said it upset you?

Sorry starlight, it's just the way you worded your posts, it's made you sound quite harsh in a way you probably didnt intend.

Things like 'im a mean force feeder' and 'he did understand the rules of the game'

It's only an avacado!

Yes, explain please...

If you read any book on child psychology a one year old cannot be manipulative.

Except when it comes to avocados it would seem....

Starlight - I'm not sure that eating is a game for which there are rules. What is the game? That he's not allowed to not feel like something some days? I have to say I found your posts here quite disconcerting to say the least. Maybe today he felt like avocado. Maybe the other day he didn't. Is that not ok? Is it ok for you not to eat when you don't feel like it? It's not so much what you did as the way you described it that has unnerved me. "Not a murmur of resistance"? I think that's sad. I love sharing meals with my daughter and yes, I get exasperated when she chucks stuff on the floor, but it's pretty rare these days, and some days I don't feel like what I've cooked for myself! I want her to find eating a fun social experience, not something to resist or submit to.

Really? Are you a child psychologist, Starlight? I'm not trying to be sarcastic, btw, it's a genuine question.