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My son won’t eat anything but vegetables crackers, bananas and yogurt. He’s 18 months old idk how to get him to eat anything else he just throws it
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I think the best way is to introduce new foods at the same time as his safe foods. And do it gently, toddlers have a natural want to go against what they are told they must do unfortunately 🙈 so if you sit and say no you must eat this, or u can have banana when you’ve eaten so and so, then they won’t. If you just put some new food on the same plate and eat it yourself at the same time, and reference how yummy it is, they may want to give it a go themselves ❤️ just take it slow, luckily what he will eat isn’t bad so no rush ❤️

Feed what he’ll eat, but continuously offer new things! Seeing The adults around him taking a bite before he’s even handed food can be helpful!

let him eat that. introduce new foods and he'll eat what he likes ☺️☺️

He asked for strawberries so I gave him some and he just wanted to feed them to me lol I tried feeding him them or encouraging him to eat them himself and nope didn’t want them

Ask him to feed you! It sounds silly but it can help their tiny brain end up more interested in trying eventually, like food you want to eat, not what he asked for LOL

Don't give anything sweet for a solid week and feed him propel food, at one point he will start to eat. If he can get sweet food why would he even try to eat propal 🤷‍♀️

Try pediasure.

Feed him what he will eat. Regularly offer new foods with NO pressure. Expect him to say no. Don't do it at the table. Do it while playing or outside or something. Make up something for yourself, eat it silently, he might come over to see. You say "do you want a bite?" If he says no/shakes head, you say "no worries" then talk about what colours it is, what it smells like etc.

He does come over everytime I’m eating and feeds it to me I don’t have to ask him to idk why he does lol but he does and I always ask him if he wants to try usually he’ll say no then randomly go to try a small bite and will either not take the bite or say yucky. I just feel like to many bananas, yogurt and vegetable crackers aren’t good for him either. I tried banana pancakes for supper and he ate maybe a small pancake! Then I went to try peanut butter sandwich and he grabbed the bread and ate it plain lol

Yep good! The key is to NOT get super anxious about it because then you end up putting heaps of pressure on them to eat, and they eat even LESS. Keep it casual, no pressure, just offer, and he'll probably branch out.

Keep serving things. Serve what you eat along with a couple things you know he will eat on the plate. Bc this is how peoples kids develop food aversions and only eat junk food, by no longer normalizing the real food so it basically becomes an automatic no if it is served again in the future. They normally go through this phase around that age. Between 12-18m it starts and it does pass after a while. They also don’t need as many calories at this point, like they suddenly don’t eat as much. Happened to all 3 of mine!

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