My eldest son's (2.7) eating habits haven't been great for a while - in fact I've even posted on here before about whether it's possible to survive by eating bananas alone....
Anyway, as you can tell by the title, things aren't going so well. We are down to 2 hot dishes and a few other things like toast and plain bread....The limitation is kind of ok so long as he eats...
He's not even eating these at the moment though, in fact he's not eating much of anything. He asks for food and I make it and then he doesn't eat it. For example lunch today, I made a Sunday dinner and ds1 had pasta pesto with some carrots, brocolli and peas on the side. He looked at the carrots etc and was talking how delicious they were....But then he refused to eat -even the pasta pesto which is normally a favorite and was asking for chocolate. I said no and then he started asking for a yoghurt, banana, bread - anything apart from what was infront of him....This isn't the first time and he's starting to behave like this all the time. It's almost as if food is too much of a distraction for him and he would rather play....He would also rather drink milk then eat and I sometimes have the feeling that he leaves his tea on purpose as he knows that he will have a bottle of milk before bedtime.
My question is what do we do????? Do we just give him what he wants??? But, if we do this, how will he ever understand that he has to eat his main meal? I'm completely at a loss here.
In complete contrast, Ds2 (11 months), loves food and eating - a vibe I've never had from Ds1.
I know he won't starve himself but I think we have a serious problem here.