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ds2 will only eat crap....

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frazzledfairy · 26/06/2008 18:54

he is 22 months old and will eat oven chips, chip shop chips (not my lovely home made potato wedges though) fish fingers, veggie fingers, pizza etc etc etc.

the only healthy meal he will eat is pasta with home made sauce.

he quite likes yogurt but doesn't eat a lot (more goes over him than in him!), he has 2 7oz bottles of milk a day as this is the only way of getting milk into him and it makes me feel better about his diet.

he will eat fruit till it's coming out of his ears, any sort, but he will not eat any kind of veg at all, EVER!

he wouldn't eat his lunch today (cheese on toast), just had a few grapes, then i didn't gave him anything untill tea (quorn sausages, roast sweet potatos, brocoli and mash. he was sooo hungry and actually put some of the mash to his mouth but recoiled from it, he just cried bless him and after 5-10 mins i gave him some oven chips i had cooked as a back up which he ate in 5 mins! then he had some custard, apple and clementine.

the main thing i'm worried about is the salt in his diet, all the processed crap he likes is full of salt.

does rubbish + fruit + milk = an ok diet?!

tia

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girliefriend · 26/06/2008 20:50

He sounds o.kay to me! Just don't buy the processed stuff and keep meal times relaxed, if he doesn't eat what you give him I would assume he wasn't hungry and leave it at that! The milk will be having a knock on effect on his appetite IMO. Also are you all eating the same food at the same time, i think kids will eat more happily if they see everyone else eating the same thing. The biggest thing is not too make it into a big deal as he will pick up on your anxiety and that will make the situation worse! XxX

janeite · 27/06/2008 21:14

He will eat crap if you let him have it. If you carry on buying oven chips etc and cooking them "as back up" then he will eat them.

Fruit, pasta with homemade sauce, bread etc will be fine in the short term. If you can then get him to eat a bit of decent bread, yoghurt etc he'll be more than fine. And if he'll eat homemade tomato sauce on pasta, then he might also eat it on homemade pizzas, or layered into a lasagne, or with a tortilla wrap, or possibly with rice or cous cous. That way you'll be introducing new tastes and textures, whilst giving him the comfort of something he knows and likes.
Good luck!

lazarou · 27/06/2008 21:19

This all sounds pretty normal to me.

I think it will all be different in a few months time.

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