You know your child is a fussy eater when...

[melpomene]

You start wondering whether ketchup or popcorn can be counted as a portion of vegetables.

Your green wheelie bin is full to the brim with your child's leftovers.

Your toddler will only eat a banana whilst still in the supermarket (We do pay for it first). She will not touch bananas at any other time, however fresh they are.

Your other child's 'fruit eating' sticker chart has been gathering dust on the kitchen wall for 5 months, during which time she has not eaten a single piece of fruit.

how about when...
they offer everything to their little sister first just in case it's poisoned?
then won't eat it because it's got Her Germs on it?

Sigh.

or when DS1 asks for a roll with butter for school lunch and then doesn't eat the roll because it was "too buttery"
[sigh]

Stawberrymartini, mine will actually eat houmous. not much else but houmous they love, sophisticated palates. dd2 did eat everything in sight until she turned one and now thinks is really funny to copy dd1. Apparantly they all eat crap by the time there 16 anyway so why worry. Does a chocoalte cornflake bun count as a carb portion ( and protein?)

You know you've got a fussy eater in your house when . . . .

2 fussy ones in our house, but for different reasons:-

dd2 - the scary would rather starve fussy. Will eat yoghurt (I don't understand that either) bread and butter and rice cakes (bleuch). Would rather root round the bottom of her booster seat to try and dredge up yesterdays bread than contemplate eating any fruit. BUT will also demolish broccoli. That's it though. Although she is s l o w l y improving.

dd1 - too sophisticated.
Refused to eat her spag bol until I grated some parmesan on top. Refused a salad because it didn't have sauce like at the restaurant we went to a few days before (had to cast mind back then go to cupboard and get out balsamic vinegar. WILL NOT eat any fruit or veg which has been cut up for her. Balks at the sight of tomato ketchup and goes to fridge and gets out the soured cream instead. Will not eat sunday roast without Horsh radish. She is 2.4!!