What healthy foods have you had luck with? My 2yo has become incredibly picky with foods. She'll eat most fruits and green beans. Unfortunately she's decided she hates eggs and meat/tofu unless it's covered in sauce.
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My 3 year old is pretty picky too. She eat most fruits, but veggies are tough. She will only eat them if they are mixed up with applesauce in pouches. They aren't great, but I figure it's better than nothing? She'll also eat roasted brussels sprouts and sometimes a carrot.
She loves peanut butter and BBQ chicken too. Yogurt as well.
We just keep trying. If she's hungry enough and we've introduced a food enough times, she does eventually try it at least, which I consider a win.
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What about wheat toast with things to dip? Have you tried different forms of eggs? I follow a few instagram accounts (feeding littles, Kids eat in Color) that have great suggestions and they say you sometimes need to offer something upwards of 100 times before it's accepted.
What about with the sauce on the side, would she eat that? So she can add the sauce but she's still seeing it without? What kind of sauce?
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My 4 yo is pretty picky and used to be worse. We’ve had luck with black beans, hummus, avocado. I feel like if she eats at least one of those, it’s a healthy meal? Lol. She also loves corn on the cob and it’s fun.
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My almost 3yo was a great eater until this summer, when she did a 180. Our best strategy is adding sauce/dips on the side (especially BBQ or honey). Yes, she’s getting more sugar than I really want, but if dipping green pepper and tomatoes in a little bit of BBQ sauce means she’ll eat some veggies it’s a compromise I’m willing to make. We always serve things without dip, though and wait for her to ask or complain. The other thing we do is mix meat/veggies into a quesadilla. She doesn’t seem to care if it’s all wrapped up in melted cheese
Some form of quesadilla and fruit is her lunch most days and at dinner she gets whatever we’re eating + dip. Sometimes this works better than others, but the rule we have is we pick what goes on your plate you can eat or leave whatever you want from that.
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We have luck with avocado, tomatoes, peanut butter on anything (toast, crackers, banana, etc) oatmeal and anything with sour cream (sometimes I do up taco seasoned ground beef that he will eat with sour cream on top)
Sometimes he will eat a lot one day and not touch it the next.
He also loves curry, strangely. I'm not indian so my curry is far from authentic but I can hide a lot of veggies in a lentil or chickpea curry.
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