2.5 year old fussy eater

[Yellowcar107]

Hi,

My DD has always been a fussy eater won't try anything new. Her main foods she loves is lunch stuff. Bread and butter, Cucumber cheese, apple, banana, Yoghurt.

Breakfast and lunch have never been an issue. Dinner time is where she will refuse to eat if it isn't something she likes. She won't even even touch meat at all we have tried sneaking it in foods but she will pick it out and leave it. Or won't even touch it.

The only thing she will eat at dinner is pastas, chips, sweetcorn and mash.

Does anyone have any advice on how to get her to eat and try more things? She will refuse and go without just to not eat something she does like.

Thanks in advance 🤩

will she try any sort of hotdog? you can make 'hotdog octopus' ( www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Hot-Dog-Octopus ) and then maybe some chips and sweetcorn? obviously she cant have that every night but it would do for sometimes. you can get kiddie ones from the supermarket, maybe if it has a character she likes on it will help? another thing she may eat is loaded nachos? you just need to get nachos, cover them in sweetcorn, cheese, tomato (and maybe you could sneak some meat or quorn in there?) and then bake. what about fish, will she eat that? if so, fish fingers are always an option. i find making the food with little kiddie touches (eg: a lego person sitting on the fish finger, these eye sticks pocked into the food: www.ebay.co.uk/i/401291904024?chn=ps ) can also help convince them to eat (doesnt always work but may be worth a go?)

wishing you all the best

My son was the same, until one day he took daddy's jam sandwich off his plate but if given his own he wouldn't touch it. So I had to say "oh look daddy forgot his sandwich" and my D's wouk eat it. Also got him involved in making pasta daucee, soups, smoothies, sandwiches and letting him choose the filling for sandwich and cut up sify foods too