14 month old - gone off veggies (& everything else today!)

[lazzaroo]

My 14 month old daughter has always had a healthy appetite but I am beginning to worry about the little amount of vegetables she is eating recently. NOt for lack of trying! She used to eat them (not masses but enough), then she stopped eating anything lumpy a few weeks back (teething). Is now eating meat, eggs, fish, fruit, bread but not the veg.

How much do I need to worry. And tonight she refused any of her tea (fish, potatoes & cheese/courgette sausages). In my desperation to get something inside her for fear of a rubbish nights sleep I offered her a stage one pouch (fruit & veg) and she gupled it all down. Followed by a second fruit pouch and a banana muffin. So, she's obviously hungry! Do I assume she is teething again? Should I stop offering an aleternative if she refuses what is put in front of her?

I have tried blending veggies in with other stuff (soup, pasta sauce etc) but she's not interested.

She has milk in the morning before breakfast and evening before bed.

P.s I'm off to make Carrot muffins...does that count!?!?

i have found that they all go through stages of this.
ds2 in particular has frequent phases of refusig to eat things he normally likes. sometimes it's all veg (annoying as we're vegetarian!), sometimes it's specific veg, sometimes it's milk...

i just keep serving up the same old stuff ad eventually he starts eating it again

My 18 month old does not eat well when ill or teething. She's kind of the opposite to yours in that she will have meals where she only eats fruit and refuses meat, cheese, sandwiches or anything cooked and I worry about if she's getting enough iron, calcium, protein etc. However the rest of the time she eats well so if I look at what she's eaten over the course of a month it is a good balance, it's just that some weeks are better than others.

Personally I will offer a (healthy) alternative if the meal is refused but I won't offer a biscuit or anything like that. It's a matter of opinion though, I know my DD eats a good range overall so I try not to worry about each meal individually but with a less good eater I may not have offered the alternative if I thought it was becoming a habit.