My 2.4 yr old DD just wants to eat fish fingers and toast

[Amani]

Should I be worried?? I just can't seem to get her to eat anything else. I try and distract her by letting her watch telly/reading while trying to feed her other dishes that I have pre-pared for her but it doesn' work. All she wants is toast for breakfast, and 2 fish fingers for lunch and dinner. She has lost quite a bit of weight as a number of people have commented on it and I feel like what I'm trying is not good enough...

When I started my current nanny job all the little boy, then a week under 2y.o, would eat were sausages and vegetable fingers, chopped into tiny pieces. The first time I put peas on his plate, he threw the whole lot on the floor! I fully admit to scraping the whole lot back onto his plate and saying that he didn't have to eat them but they were staying on his plate and his plate was staying on his highchair! It was a long slow process but we offered different foods every day starting with very small portions but no sausages or vegetable fingers. If he didn't wish to eat, we didn't make a fuss but let him get down from the table and offered something healthy again for tea. If he did try what was on his plate then he was praised. Children will rarely starve themselves and often go through faddy stages. Eating your meals with your DD is always a good start as is 'peer pressure'. Invite her friends with good appetites round and have a tea party. Now the little boy is 5 and will eat nearly everything although dislikes what he classes as mush ie. shepherds pie, spag bol. He's definately a meat and two veg lad! It's hard not to make an issue out of eating and you can't help wondering whether they will starve but most children eventually pick up again. It might be worth getting her checked with her HV though to make sure everything is okay.

How old is she? Is it because she can pick these things up and feed herself? Can you add anything too these two thing to help add some varition and extra nutrients? Would she accept peanut butter or cheese on the toast, or chicken goujons instead of fish fingers?

I wouldn't let her watch TV or read while trying because she will sit there all day and faff around otherwise - there's no incentive to get finished. Has she always been tricky to feed or is it a recent thing? I do remember my DD going through phase of only eating spag bol for weeks, but least I could hide all sorts of extra stuff in that.

Sorry been a bit tied up with DDs

Just recently started this phase. A friend mentioned not giving her these foods and when she does get hungry offer her something else and see if that workd. Tried that and offering an alternative when she said she was hungry but she refused to take it. Feel like I am starving her.....so went back to her normal routine