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I have learned that when it comes to toddlers, nothing is fool proof! And the only constant is change!

@Ra: I know! And everything you made today sounds wonderful! My kid loved sweet potato on Friday and ate it all up. On Saturday, would not touch it! Grrr .....

Why do you put more effort into his food than your dinners? I really liked the book Fearless Feeding. We make the same dinner for everyone, I make sure LO has at least one side that he loves (or usually loves, at least) and let him eat what he wants. Our typical "sure bets" are string cheese, sweet potato slices, and fruit.

Kids won't starve themselves!

@Ra: Unfortunately, I think kids eat a lot better if everyone's eating the same thing - they want to eat whatever you're eating. Yep; like I said, I try to make sure there's something I know he will usually eat but otherwise that's it. There have been two times recently where he really tested it, asking for "peanut butter bread" and refusing to eat (once was dinner once was lunch). The dinner one REALLY scared me because we don't do a snack after that or anything but.... he slept just fine and ate a big breakfast in the morning

Oh man, most of my go-to foods are ones your LO won't eat!! How about: pasta or orzo (with butter sauce, cheese sauce or red sauce), fresh tomatoes with a little herbs, hummus and chips, chips and guacamole, baked chicken "fingers" (I bake panko crusted cuts of chicken), cheeseburgers.

@Smurfette: yeah, I should have said 'most' kids. I know nothing applies to everyone! Pouches have long been our way to make sure he gets a veggie when we go out to eat or during my first trimester with #2 when I could hardly cook... he refused one last night out to eat So bummed!

I should have also added that my son is NOT one of those kids who eats lots of things and tries everything. There are lots of meals he only eats the string cheese, etc. But it's how we've done meals since he was little and he's slowly starting to get braver again about trying new things. It just takes the stress off of it for me. I have family members with kids who only eat X Y & Z beyond the toddler years because they sorta fell into making them what they would eat and not wanting to waste food.

@Ra: No advice, just commiseration M threw 99% of her lunch onto the floor. We're still feeding her purées afterwards partly because she's still sensitive to solids and partly because we know she'll eat them. I don't get how she can gobble down some Gerber peas but want nothing to do with chicken nuggets!!

@lawbee11: clearly her priorities are messed up. Peas over nuggets, crazy talk.

I have a super picky toddler too. Lately I've been making her green smoothies and she likes it! I load it up with lots of spinach and fruits. That's the only way I can get veggies in her.

@Ra: do you put any herbs or spices in your cooking for LO? Maybe he'd like foods with stronger flavours?

@Ra: Oh and M will eat pancakes for dinner but not breakfast. Toddlers are so weird!

for us it's porridge. rice mixed with a beef or chicken broth. always the thing they've eaten best!

He will try to eat chicken feed, dog food, compost, dirt, rocks, etc but SCREAMS when I give him what we're eating...I've got nothin. Just know you're not alone!

We're in the same boat and I can't take it. It's going to drive me insane. DS won't even TOUCH most foods, despite putting them out in front of him for months at a time. He just keeps asking for more milk (we don't give in). It's awful. He won't eat any meat. He doesn't eat pasta or rice. No veggies. He likes very few fruits (unless they're in pouch form, then he eats them). He eats breakfast foods (pancakes, waffles), peanut butter, and applesauce. That's basically it. I don't think he cares if he starves, I really don't.