Hello.
just looking for some reassurance that my toddler is normal and this will pass!
DD is 3 years old and for approximately the last 6-8 months has gradually refused more and more hot food. She eats a wide variety of foods but it’s only cold “picnic type” food for the most part.
So a standard day usually looks like:
Breakfast: homemade museli with nuts and seeds in, oat milk, slices of apple, occasionally a bit of my toast but only when it’s gone cold.
Lunch and dinner are basically the same but just different fruit/veg/ protein source: crackers or oatcakes or cold pasta or cold pitta bread, eggs or cheese or nuts, one type of fruit, one or two types of vegetable e.g cucumber, pepper, frozen peas, cooked and cold kale or green beans. She will sometimes eat some Greek yoghurt.
She doesn’t have snacks, won’t eat meat, and refuses anything resembling a family meal. We have tried things like fish pie, shepherds pie, etc. On occasion she has eaten thick lentil soup, or a few mouthfuls of pasta with a homemade tomato sauce.
I will put a bit of our dinner on her plate but she just screams and won’t eat anything (even the things she likes).
Any tips? Just ride it out?