Hey all,
I've read a few posts here on it and still ended up a bit indecisive on worrying.
My son is 28 months and since around his 2nd birthday his food pallette has gotten significantly limited.
He used to eat everything and anything that we prepared for him from Kormas and mild Tikkas to beef hot pots to chicken dinners. However things have taken a bit of a turn.
He doesn't say many words due to suspected hearing issues but will lead us to what he wants in regards to toys or items and does basic hand movements like pointing and signing for more etc.
The only consistent thing we can give him lately is some banana on cereal for breakfast.
We usually just give a rich tea biscuit or a small portion of fruit as snacks and then lunch time a few hours later before nap he always runs over to the kitchen dinner table on announcement for "Food" and interested on what's to offer, but main meals are always met with tantrums and crying and trying to throw his bowl.
We never force feed and generally have a 15 minute timer from when he's sat down to calling off food. For meals we will make whatever it is we're eating and if he turns that down we will make him a slice of toast or 2 with butter which is also hit and miss.
Sometimes he signals for a yoghurt but I'm concerned with how often he's rejecting food for toast as a fall back or often refusing all food in general.
Breakfast is the only consistent meal that he will eat without fuss.
He's not losing weight and is full of energy himself, I just don't know suggestions on tackling the main meal part of his day as he seems genuinely interested in food because he always runs over to see and tries to get into his chair but with there being limited vocal skills at the moment and the issue with he never shows or tries to tell us himself what he wants it's hard to make something work.