Help! Fussy eating with a 14 month old,

[Misswem]

Has anyone had any experience with a toddler point blank refusing food? My dd is 14months and we’ve always struggled
with her to eat. She’s my 2nd, dd1 was a great eater.

I did blw with her from 10 months after her no longer wanting to be spoon fed. Back then she would eat a good variety of homemade purées and some pouches. These days she’s very selective, don’t even try to pick up the foods on her plate. The things she does like are
Fish Fingers or Fish fillets
Fruit Toast/Peanut Butter/Plain Toast
Rice Cakes, melty puffs, muesli bars
Banana…..refuses to try any other unless it’s mixed in with Greek yogurt.
Porridge, Weetbix, pancakes. Sometimes will eat grated cheese.
Used to have homemade tomato/chicken soup, but we’ve decided we don’t like that now!

She won’t eat any form of potato, or pasta just spits it out. No Beans, Eggs, Salad or any veg and will only eat fish, no other meats even when offered, but will eat a sausage roll!
At my wits end with just feeding her carbs all the time! Any suggestions anyone?

I just let him go hungry. Then would give a bottle of milk at bedtime.

He's almost 2 and now eats much much better. I don't stress about it and serve whatever we're having. Some days he eats a lot some days not much.

He's a healthy weight.

He still doesn't eat potato, or any form of egg. Few other 'standard cooking' foods. But then he eats things like pate 😀I don't worry about it.

My DS was 14 months when the fussy eating started and now aged 9 he still is.

All I can say is just keep offering a variety of foods, always making sure that there is at least 1-2 safe foods on her plate that she will eat. Don’t fall into the trap of giving up and only giving what she wants, and don’t let her fill up on milk before meals.

Time will tell if she has a sensory issue with food so maybe bring it up at her 2 year check if it is getting worse, but as long as she is healthy and gaining weight steadily she should be fine. Fussy eating is a normal stage that most toddlers/preschoolers go through, unfortunately some like mine don’t outgrow it for years 😤