Not sure if this is the best place to post this...
DS is almost 2 and although he eats or at least tries everything at nursery, at home his eating is fairly limited. It's all healthy home made meals but it's basically just a handful of different things - pasta, baked beans, savoury muffins, eggs, lasagna...
Part of the problem is that we don't have many meals together, so at the weekend 5pm approaches and one of us will say, "shall I just make DS some pasta then?"
DP and I are crap at meal planning (both work full time) so we basically end up making DS something different then we just fend for ourselves once he's in bed.
The result is that we're always offering him the same things and I feel terribly guilty about it, and he's started to get fussy about trying new things when I do make them.
So we're currently on a 4 week holiday in Canada visiting DPs parents and were all eating dinner together at 530pm so we're basically going cold turkey - we'll offer DS what we eat and that's it. He can eat/try what he wants, leave what he doesn't and there's fruit or yogurt afterwards regardless if how much/how little he eats.
Meals are pretty toddler friendly so there's always something he should like even if it's home made chips, mashed potato, pasta, bread whatever, so I don't think we're being unreasonable.
Thing is - already feel like I'm losing my nerve!! He's basically refused dinner the last two nights. He always has a good breakfast and good lunch so really it's just dinner that he's not eaten much of.
If he looks at his plate and pushes it away without touching anything and says "all done" and wants to get down, I just get him down right.....? I know this is the right thing to do and he won't starve (he always has milk before bed so he doesn't go to bed on completely empty stomach) but still....it all a little out of my comfort zone!!
Any experience of doing this? I shouldn't cave in and offer toast or weetabix should I....