in August 2022 Babies 🇬🇧

Do you offer an alternative meal is toddler refuses dinner?

Struggling with this as I don't personally offer anything else for at least two hours as she'll often realise that's what dinner is and pick at it after a while. If she doesn't touch it at all I offer cereal after about two hours becauae by that time she must be hungry. (E.g. dinner at 5, cereal at 7 so she at least eats something). I'm low income and can't afford to be cooking all sorts on the odd chance she'll like it that day and she's so picky. My issue is her nursery have most days let her reject her food and have crackers and fruit as an alternative, so now she thinks she can skip dinner at home too and 'get something else' she is barely eating meals and is becomming a struggle.

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Our nursery offer meals and alternatives (so sandwich etc if they don't eat the meal). I find that picky dinners are best after nursery or something like pasta and pesto.

I have the same struggle, it's got a bit better recently though, but when it was bad I just gave him a sandwich instead after a while so he atleast ate something before bed, he seems to eat more if I'm eating the same thing and take a bite of his and then he will eat it and also Ive been holding some of his food in my hand and he goes to grab it and automatically tastes it and continues to eat his dinner if he likes it

@Georgina it's tricky isn't it! She won't eat bread at all so lunch is always 'picky plates' so i'm stuck with cereal before bed if anything🫠 I do eat with her most days and if I go to touch her food i get a sassy 'no mummy, that's mine!' Yet she won't eat it🙈😅 the struggle is real

It definitely is, it takes alot of trial and error to find what will work

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