2.5 year old and food

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Hi, am finding it hard to feed my 2.5 year old. She has always been very fussy but I worry about her with regard to her future eating habits.

Breakfast alphabites and a piece is brown toast with peanut butter, she used to eat weetabix but now refuses. Dinner is usually at lunch time as she is too tired and grumpy by the evening. She usually has vegetables hidden in a sauce but won’t touch pasta, potatoes or veg that isn’t ‘hidden’ I.e puréed. She will eat quorn sometimes or occasionally ham. Other meat she will not eat. She will then have a yogurt and a banana. Tea is usually soft boiled eggs with soldiers and yogurt. And that basically sums up what she will eat... does anyone have any ideas? I try so many different things and she just won’t entertain them. I really want to cook her lovely home cooked food but it just gets rejected. Oh she will at dairy lea and grated cheddar too..not exactly a large repertoire of food... Help! Please!

My Ds was like that. I used to make faces with his dinner e.g. a cocktail sausage for a nose, little fried potato stars for eyes and a rolled up slice of ham as a mouth etc. Squiggles of Ketchup for hair.
Put lots of components on the table and get her to help you make a face or another shape.
Another possibility is making eating more interesting. Try a mini babybel still in it's wrapper and tell her her cheese is in a little red present. Obviously watch to make sure she doesn't try to eat the wax

Have you tried ‘forbidden’ food eg NOT serving her something and then saying that it is mummy’s, once it’s ‘out of bounds’ it suddenly becomes appetising!

Well, having a DD with strong opinions about food and an older DSD who was similar, my first piece of advice is not to stress.
It will almost inevitably get better over time, but as long as she is healthy and gaining weight, don't fret too much over variety.
I would suggest offering her very similar foods to those she already likes. Keep it simple and don't reward with food either.
Many children struggle with texture, how is she with raw veg? My DD and DSD both preferred quite dry, crunchy foods and still dislike soggy or very wet textures.