young children's limited diet

[weightstrugglinmum]

Good evening all.

I'm just looking for recommendations for support around fussy/limited eating for a 4 year old and 6 year old please.

They eat generally very healthily but have a limited diet and I'm desperate for some support/guidance on how to tackle this, especially as my husband is very critical of me, but of course, never does anything to actually help.

Thank you!

If ask him to come up with some suggestions

Won't go into the inns and outs of my DDs eating but she is extremely limited, went to the gp and got referred to a dietician who has not helped at all.
The advice she gave us and I have seen given by others on here is to do a buffet style tea where the kids can help themselves but always keep adding new foods. They don't have to try them but the ideas is that if they see new foods without being forced to eat them, they will naturally try them. Unfortunately it hasn't worked for us but many others have had positive results.
Don't force food, don't bribe, don't offer desserts as a treat.
If you're really worried go to the GP and ask for a referral.

Couldn't agree with the two PP more.

My eight-year-old is still an incredibly limited eater. Sometimes he says he’s bored with what’s on offer, but there’s nothing else he wants to try or is willing to try. We’ve come to terms with it by now but it’s really, really disheartening. But my husband said he was incredibly fussy and now eats anything. And the last thing you want is food to become a battleground and it had really had started to become so when my son was around six. So we just stepped back from it and said he’ll eat what he eats. On balance, the very very limited range of meals he eats are ok. It must be boring as hell eating them over and over and over but it’s very much his choice to do so. He sees the rest of us eating other things and it’s obvious with him that it’s a psychological issue, he’s frustrated with it himself almost. We just have to be patient with him.