Is anyone else’s child like this??

My little one is 2 in December and she’s so weird with food. If I cut fruit up and put it in a bowl or on a plate, she won’t eat it. If I put it in a small pot, sometimes she’ll eat it. However at her grandparents when they give her a small pot of fruit she eats it no problem. I was always told to show them when you eat fruit or grab the same thing you made them to show them it’s fine to eat and even with doing that she will refuse. Only difference is Grandparents fruit are from M&S and ours has been from Asda, Sainsburys, Tesco, Aldi and Lidl but I gave up with Lidl fruit. If she sees fruit on her weetabix she won’t eat it. Even if I put a little bit of honey on to sweeten it, she won’t eat it. Then she also refuses dinner and lunch mostly. Anything I cook apart from plain pasta with butter, she won’t have. Even if I put a bit of cheese on the pasta, she won’t eat it. Tonight I cooked two meals. One, a chicken, bacon and avocado sandwich, she didn’t eat it and then I cooked fajitas bc that’s what my bf wanted and she wouldn’t eat that either 😭 ended up giving her an Ella’s kitchen food thing, and she ate it. So basically my options to give her for dinner and lunch are plain pasta and Ella’s kitchen meals. Like do I just keep giving her those dinners or do I still encourage eating what we do? It’s stacking up to becoming very expensive and I don’t know what to do lol. I’ve even tried blending up food I’ve made for us to make it like an Ella’s kitchen rip off, but she doesn’t eat it because she’s seen me make it. She does the same with yoghurt, has to have it in the pot it comes, she won’t touch it if I empty it into a bowl 😭😂 Anyone else? I’m absolutely stumped right now. I feel bad as well because she should have more nutritious foods but I know I can’t force her. She will eat some veg, mostly carrots. She avoids broccoli and sometimes she has peas but other times refuses to eat them. Most other veg she won’t eat.

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It's normal for them to still be fairly picky at this age I think. Mine won't eat a lot of veg (he will have peas, sweetcorn, but broccoli, carrots and anything else is 50/50). He also doesn't like sandwiches and meat like chicken unless it's breaded or cut up in a sauce. I think chicken bacon and avocado sandwich isn't something most 2 year olds I know would eat altogether although some may like avocado or chicken maybe. Does she eat rice? I'd maybe try and have a meal where you make something she will eat and something she may not, but do keep offering new things or things she had refused before and keep trying her to have the same as you. I also read not to offer alternative meals until the next snack or meal time as otherwise they wont try anything as they know youll keep trying alternatives. For fruit I find mine wants them whole now unless it's something that needs cutting eg grapes. We are also in a plate refusal phase so everything goes in his bowl or on the tray next to it. It's hard not to worry.

God my little boy is like this! I can make him a meal and he won’t eat it, grandparents make it, he will eat the lot!! I think they’re always picky when you make their meals, I know a few people who have said this. Hopefully just a phase 🙈

@Stephanie I had a chicken bacon and avocado sandwich at a restaurant we went to two weeks before. She loved eating it. But then made at home it was another story lol. She used to eat rice but I she won’t eat plain rice it has to be with something. I’m making a curry with rice and veg this week so hopefully she will try that and like it. Okay thank you that’s very helpful. Haha yeah she doesn’t like anything cut up atm. But problem is she ends up stuffing loads of stuff in her mouth and then gags on it and spits it out. Grapes I still cut regardless and other foods that are tougher

@Sophie yeah hopefully it is it’s so difficult sometimes ahah

Yep we are exactly same he eats all sorts at nursery he would chuck on floor at home 🫠 I think the only thing we can do is keep offering a mix of things, focus on what and how much they eat in a week rather than a day or a meal and hope it passes!

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