As the title suggests, my one-year-old (21 months) is extremely picky with food. He was really great up until about 12 months. We did BLW, etc., and I thought he was on track to be an excellent eater. Over winter he was poorly quite frequently and admitted to hospital a number of times. As a result, I gave him the things he wanted to eat, because he's also been monitored for slow growth and is already between the 0.4 and 2nd centile, and because he was already very poorly. I still breastfeed, but I cook lots of homecooked meals and he tosses them, refuses to try even a bite, etc. In short, even if he might like something new he wouldn't know, or he rejects something that the day before he thought was awesome.
I know a lot of this pickiness can be normal. The problem is that it is now nearly a year later, and we are stuck in a major food rut. The foods he will eat include:
-oatmeal
-biscuits (the low sugar Nairn ones)
-bananas
-soya yoghurt (plain with coconut or vanilla)
-smoothies (our only saving grace, I blend these with various frozen fruits and fresh baby spinach and/or other frozen veg like carrots or cauliflower)
-pancakes (homemade, I do a low sugar/healthy version with buckwheat flour)
-peanut butter bread (on wholewheat seeded bread, and he will not tolerate any other spread right now)
He will not eat ANY meat (we give him a multivitamin and iron supplement as a result) and he cannot have egg as he's got a severe egg allergy. I've poured a lot of time into trying different homemade toddler meals that I thought he'd love and that just didn't work.
I'm really just exhausted and burnt out already as it was a rough winter. But I do want my little boy to be healthy. I don't expect him to be eating loads, but a couple of fruits and veg and a little meat to add in variety would be amazing.