My son has always been a bit of a fussy eater and I'm completely fed up with it.
Our meals are quite boring because I try to stick to things I know he will eat. When I try something new, I accept that there is a chance he might not like it and he can have something else as long as he's tried it, which is fine.
He's having a growth spurt at the moment and has been asking for extra food after his meals, so I know he currently has a large appetite. However, now that it's the school holidays, I don't know what he is eating throughout the say. He has had McDonald's/takeaways around three times this week that I know of and probably loads more junk on top of that which I just don't know about. He went through a period of taking money to school and buying massive chocolate bars on the way home, so would then say he wasn't hungry at teatime, but I thought he'd stopped doing it. This week he's been out with friends quite often and then picked at his tea and claimed to be full. When I ask what he's been eating out he lies and tells me nothing. He'll also claim to have not eaten breakfast or lunch (even though we have a kitchen full of food) so he had no choice but to eat a load of junk an hour before tea and then not eat his tea.
I can't believe I'm still having so much hassle with him eating food but I think it's the lying which is really getting to me. I don't think he's eaten a single healthy meal this week - he's either gone to a friend's house and eaten junk or obviously filled up in some other way and made excuses not to eat his tea. What am I supposed to do?