Does your 3 year old have certain meals/foods they love?

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My 3 year old dd has no appetite and no interest in food at all. If it was left to her she would not bother to eat at all. She never seems to be hungry. It is wearing me down.

Just once I would love to cook her a meal she would enjoy.

I am a SAHM and a decent cook so I have the time and ability and cook lovely meals for dh, myself and dd2 but dd1 is

She will not try rice or pasta.

She has no interest in bread, chips, yogurt, biscuits.

She hates cheese and is allergic to egg.

She quite likes crisps on the odd occasion she has them.

I am fed up. She is often cranky and lacking in energy and I have tried to explain you need healthy food for energy but gets me no-where.

We eat at the table, don't make a fuss, praise her for trying something new.

sorry a bit of one sentence is missing.

should be 'but dd1 is just not interested'

Ds is 3(nearly 4) and has been a pain to feed over the last couple of years, he went through a stage of only eating cheese sandwiches, sausage and mash, cereal and apples (try living on that for 2 years its not fun).
But this Sept he has moved into the bigger class at nursery and he is trying lots more things he will now eat curry and rice(only at nursery though) chilli (also only at nursery) jacket potatos, carrots, all fruit (he loves pears somthing he wouldn't even try for the last 2 years now he has 1-2 everyday)He still won't eat pasta it makes him sick.

Have you tried cottage pie, you could load it with veg, or bolognase with potatos insted of pasta?...
Oh also we have these www.amazon.co.uk/Kitchen-Craft-Dolphin-Shaped-Sandwich/dp/B001HZIKFE
and we makesome sandwiches with these before we got out anywhere and because they are nice shapes and each one is quite small the kids will eat them. I also take grapes and berries in a snack pot with me when I go out because when they get ratty I know they will nibble on them.

DD2 doesnt seem to eat until dinner. I do what bogie does and give her tiny portions of fruit/breadsticks/yoghurt which she will nibble on.

Now she's at nursery and she sees other children eating we will try a bit more than she used to.

She loves pasta and mash so normally I just try to include them in whatever I'm making.

If you can find something he likes just try it with different sauces/vegetables (doesnt matter if its not what it "should" go with). When he is confident enough with taste of the sauces/vegetables you can leave out the thing that he normally wants and substitute it with what "should" be there iykwim.