My DD1 has just turned two she such a fussy eater. As I've just had DD2 I've been too tired to fight any battles and have just been giving her what I know she'll eat which means her diet is very repetitive. She seems absolutely fine but I'm worried if she's getting enough variety and nutrients and I don't know what to do about it if it's not OK as she won't try anything new at all.
So every day she'll have wheetabix and a banana for breakfast. Tomatoes, cucumber and toast/crumpets/cheese sandwiches (usually just picks out the cheese and eats a tiny bit of the bread)/crackers and cheese for lunch and dry plain pasta for dinner.
I always give her what we're having for dinner first but she will always refuse to eat it and demand pasta and I don't want to send her to bed hungry so I give in. She doesn't want anything on the pasta and will refuse to eat it unless it's plain. She'll often have a yogurt and sometimes a banana after her pasta. If I make a lasagna or fish pie from scratch she will eat it but as I have a new baby there isn't always time to make this and she won't eat it if it's been frozen then defrosted. Only if it's freshly made!!
I'm sure I'm going wrong here but I don't know what to do. I was an incredibly fussy eater when I was young and I turned out OK so should I just keep with the path of least resistance as I'm doing now or try and break this cycle and if so how??
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pipnchops · 13/11/2016 02:35
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