Is it normal that my picky toddler only eats once a day
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@Ellie sooo stressful. Yes hopefully
I don’t have a toddler yet, but they do say to not consider daily food intake but weekly food intake for toddlers. You see some days they might eat like they’ve been starving for days & some days they can survive of one sip of water and air. They also typically go through phases of refusing to eat, from the day they’re born until yeah.. they’re alive lmao. I’m sure you guys have some days where you feel like meh, don’t have much of an appetite. They’re just like that
How old are both of your toddlers? I’m LITERALLY dealing with that this week. He ate half a banana , a mango and apple pouch, some Cheerios all day long. Could it be teething? He’s 15 months.
My 19 month old is finally getting his molars both sets at the same time. I have no idea how he is surviving. The last few weeks, he's eating blueberries, strawberries, stick cheese, and maybe half a slice of toast. I continue to offer as I remember this phase with my daughter. It's so stressful, and I hate the food waste. He is also nursing more often which isn't ideal.
I swear my son hasn’t eaten a proper meal in like 2 weeks 🥲🥲 I serve him up 3 meals a day new things every day and at the moment he just has a couple of bites and that’s it
Sameeee. My son is 21 months and honestly it’s making me so stressed, whilst pregnant too! Some days he’ll eat everything in sight, then the next day he won’t want anything but some berries and that’s it
Mine is a little older than yours and sometimes all she wants ALL DAY is chips and ice cream or fruit if we have it. Juice always never any water. I have to withhold juice or say you only get juice if you have water. Same with snacks and foods. Sometimes it still doesn’t work  but she isn’t gonna let herself starve so if that means I don’t offer another thing all day until you eat xyz then so be it. Sometimes that doesn’t work but sometimes it does. Sometimes she doesn’t drink all day or she just won’t drink water from one her cups but will drink it from a bottle instead.
Totally normal. I teach PreK and what works best for toddlers is to always incorporate 1 food that you know they like (even if it’s fruit snacks or an Oreo or something “unhealthy” ) this usually helps them ease into the meal Keep everything neural- one food is not “better” than the others. Don’t force them to eat something in order to get something else
Right now my son is on day 3 of 2 strawberries and 5 ritz crackers a meal. Maybe the odd banana. It's hopefully a phase