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String cheese has become a new favorite for her. Breakfast is almost always scrambled eggs, fruit and a Chobani Oats greek yogurt. Lunch varies but lately she's been really into quesadillas, I add some veggies in it. Dino nuggets, fish sticks, canned peas, green beans, kidney beans, peaches, and pineapple are staples. Macaroni and cheese, PBJ, and any kind of rice are all hits too.

I feel the same way, definitely not a lot of diversity and my daughter will finally eat some meats at almost 2 so I think that is just a texture thing :). As long as they are eating and are
Occasionally exposed to new foods that is all we can do

I don't have any great suggestions for you but I wanted to comment and say you're not alone! My LO eats pasta, any form of bread, most meats, most fruit and the only veggie she will touch is peas and sweet corn. I mean her diet is generally fine but I feel like it must be a little boring?

My almost 2 year old is a terrible eater! Some days she eats nothing at all, surviving on just milk, water and juice.

She loves peas and broccoli so she gets those most days - but they are the only veggies she will eat. She also loves ham sandwiches, frech fries, fish fingers and cake. These are the only foods she will eat!!

My LO has gotten more picky, but I just make sure I keep offering and sometimes she will eventually come around. She never likes new foods--I have to literally offer her something a dozen times before it becomes a favorite. But I make sure to keep making and offering.

And I also really try to follow the rule of, I make what I'm going to make and put it on her plate....and she decides what she'll eat. Some nights that means that I give her rotisserie chicken, brown rice, and broccoli, and she eats only the chicken and broccoli. Shrug. Her weight has been fine for a while now, so I don't stress about her self-imposed low carb meals although sometimes my husband does and wants to give her a backup food like a pouch--I generally discourage that because I think it conditions her to not try newer foods because she knows she'll get something else.

If all else fails and she's not eating anything, I break out the ketchup and let her dip her veggies or meats in that, which she likes. But I never start a meal with ketchup since it has added sugar.

C is a pretty good eater and we don't have any dietary restrictions and I still feel like she's eating the same ten thugs over and over.

Breakfast is almost always plain yogurt, Cheerios or other cereal, and fruit.

For meats, she isn't a big fan and tends to prefer more processed than less, so I give her (limited) chicken nuggets, frozen meatballs, chicken sausage... She will usually eat homemade chicken cutlets if I have time to make them. All of these go down better when dipped in ketchup. She also likes hummus for protein.

Veggies- her favorites are frozen veggies. So frozen peas, mixed veggies, the cheesy broccoli boxes (loaded with preservatives I'm sure)... I try not to worry that it's all frozen since she's eating veggies at least.

I don't always offer carbs at meals since I feel like snacks are often very Carb centric.

And lots of dairy- cheese, especially. Mac and cheese. Yogurt. Cottage cheese. I don't know what she would eat with a dairy allergy, really.

beans and hummus!

Oatmeal, eggs, smoothies, grilled cheese, cheese quesadillas, cucumbers!!, corn, blueberries, raspberries, zucchini, cereal , puffs, and toast

And things change weekly. One week he'll love blueberries & the next he doesn't want them. Lol

Breakfast: some kind of bananas or blueberry waffles or pancakes. I usually make these with rolled oats and freeze the leftovers. Or scrambled eggs or steel cut oat(meal) with blueberries

Lunch is usually leftovers but if there isn't any I make her fish balls or noodle soup with homemade stock. Usually I have shrimp in the freezer.

Dinner: her favorites are fish (breaded and baked for tacos or steamed whole fish), shrimp, spaghetti with meat sauce, bone in pork chop, turkey stroganoff. Veg is usually roasted broccoli / cauliflower, sauté green beans, edamame, peas. She basically loves any and all carbs! These are dinner meals in heavy rotation that she loves the most! She also likes meat on the bone; ie pork chops and drumsticks.

Have you tried dipping sauces? My daughter doesn't love hamburgers but she will eat it when I give her ketchup to dip into. She will pretty much eat any meat or protein if I give her hoisin sauce to dip into.

. I also make smoothies with spinach or kale and freeze then into Popsicles.
I find she eats much better when everything is one bowl versus on a plate where everything is separated. I do not use compartments toddler ware because I feel they make it easier to be picky!

@regberadaisy: @Mae: I second the dipping sauces. C will eat anything if she can dip it in ketchup. It's how I got her to start eating broccoli. Gross but effective. Now I have to remind her not to eat the ketchup with a fork.

D also has a long list of intolerances, so I've developed some staples that I can make in batches, freeze, and reheat.

Breakfast is usually a scrambled egg with spinach and some fruit (blueberries, pears, peaches, bananas, watermelon, mandarin oranges), or a banana blueberry pancake and a veggie pouch. I make my banana blueberry pancakes with quinoa flour since she can't have wheat and as a bonus it gives her some protein. I have also made varieties with broccoli and zuchinni in them and she liked them. I have plans to experiment with a sweet potato pancake too.

Lunch is usually a hard boiled egg or pouch with chia (although I am playing with making my own chia pudding for her) and then some diced fruits and cooked veggies. Usually some puffs as an appetizer.

Dinner is usually a quinoa/chicken meatball or slow cooked shredded chicken with some steamed asparagus or carrots or broccoli or sweet potato fries.

I try to do protein, fruit, and veggie with every meal. My biggest struggle is our limited protein sources with her. She can't do dairy or legumes and we haven't trialed nuts or fish or most meats yet. She has chicken, egg, hemp, chia, and quinoa that are safe. I plan to introduce sunbutter and shredded pork soon and hopefully that widens her choices. I also plan to use Dr. Pragers Spinach Littles (or homemade versions) after she is introduced to onion and arrowroot.

Breakfast is usually blueberries and toast, sometimes with yogurt if she's especially hungry. Lunch is always protein + plants + extras, so we'll often do rolled up turkey plus fruits, or salami and olives and cucumbers, or black beans and tortillas and cheese. Snacks (of which there are many, because we love to snack) are tons of fruit depending on the season, veggies and humus, granola bars, crackers, chobani yogurt tubes, dried fruit, stuff like that. Dinners are whatever we're all having, which has been heavy on the meat lately since her father has stepped up his training.

My 3 (almost four noooooo) year old has gotten a little pickier lately - she seems to be really turning away from dairy products. She'll still eat yogurt in any form, but for a long time now she's been rejecting 'melted cheese'. She still likes feta, but no pizza with cheese, and she's hit or miss on solid cheddar these days. Ice cream is obviously not a problem. She's never cared for milk, so I think she may just not be that into dairy.

Breakfast usually includes yogurt and always includes fruit. The rotating "main" is cereal, toast or a pancake.

Lunch is often grilled cheese, PB and J, or pasta. Plus cut up cucumber or other veggie and an organic fruit/veggie pouch or apple sauce. Plus milk.

Dinner is whatever we eat plus yogurt. Tonight we had hamburger which DS wouldn't touch (he's sick). So he had cheese, cucumber, yellow pepper, yogurt.

Snacks are: banana, berries, fish crackers, granola bars, ect.

He probably has strawberries, cucumber and cheese every day.

Eta: he has 4 ounces when he wakes up, 4 with lunch and 6ish before bed of WCM.

Alice likes fruit, yogurt, and avocado. Everything else is sort of iffy with her. Sometimes she'll put a couple bites of fish in her mouth, but generally she refuses most meat. She'll eat peas and bell peppers and suffer through green beans, but veggies are just not her thing.

Blake eats everything. And a lot of it! He's started eating an entire tilapia fillet in one sitting. Like he just shovels it in. Other meat is still hit or miss. I think it's a textural issue. I'm weird about food textures, so maybe they have a bit of that. Hopefully they outgrow it! Maybe I should try meatballs too. They may like the mushy texture and that they can pick them up with their hands.

@Mae: I've found ONE kind of prepared meatballs with no dairy or soy! They are the Aidell's brand carmelized onion flavor.--they are organic, too. They are in my grocery's refrigerated section, not frozen. https://aidells.com/product/14033