Our 16 month old has recently gotten very picky. She'll be clearly starving but refuse to eat anything until we figure out the exact food she's been craving. Which varies from day to day. And of course she's only got a few words, none of which are food products 
What will your picky toddler always eat? Any ideas for helping her tell us what she wants? I'm not worried about her not eating enough, but she gets really fussy when she's hungry and drives us nuts!
pomelo / 5084 posts
@Dahlia: I don't know about your baby!! But mine loves yogurt - and graham crackers if we get desperate!
clementine / 935 posts
Yes, yogurt works 80% of the time. I think the only thing with a better success rate is goldfish. (And yes, she might have had yogurt and goldfish for dinner tonight...oops)
nectarine / 2018 posts
DD is almost 2 and getting less picky but for awhile it was pretty tough. The foods she would always eat - plain pasta (preferably a fun shape), cheese cubes, berries, chicken sausage, peas, broccoli, bread, and sweet potatoes. We always offered one thing she liked and would rotate other things.
pear / 1657 posts
when he is in an especially picky phase we do smoothies because you can sneak in lots of healthy things - yogurt, fruit and spinach, avocado, broccoli....
he'll also almost always eat cheese, bread, peanut butter, cucumbers with some encouragement, and blueberries or grapes (cut up)
persimmon / 1023 posts
Cheese, bread, crackers and peanut butter, pouches...if our DS won't eat those, he's not hungry!
hostess / cantaloupe / 6486 posts
Cheese, toast, blueberries, strawberries, rice, animal crackers, applesauce
pomegranate / 3375 posts
Beans & rice, mac & cheese, and pretzels. Thankfully, she's not very picky - she usually will eat anything, BUT she eats like a freaking ant. Like 2 bites and she says she's full.
kiwi / 549 posts
Bread, strawberries, oatmeal made with milk, granola bar, goldfish, graham crackers, usually rice or pasta, and usually other fruits, but he does have fruits he refuses too.
clementine / 935 posts
@catgirl: The problem is I never know what she's going to like on a given day! Goldfish are the only constant. Everything else she loves on Monday, hates on Tuesday. I guess she's not so much picky as has intense cravings! 
@junebugsmama: Tried those tonight. Despite loving them in the past, wouldn't touch them.
@youboots: DD loves raspberries, but will only eat them in the driveway from our raspberry bushes, and we live in a climate with a short growing season! 
Oh well, we'll keep playing "guess what you want to eat." Like I said, she still eats pretty healthy and she does love pouches (as long as they have a green cap - ha!) so I'm not worried from a nutritional perspective. I think I'm just having a hard time adjusting to having a toddler with opinions!
apricot / 356 posts
At the moment cucumber and avocado. But sometimes it's there and he won't touch it. Also cheese
kiwi / 549 posts
DS is like that - won't eat nonsnack, nonfruit foods 2 days in a row. It's like he's secretly saying I already ate that mom why are we eating it again. On Sunday he loved the turkey (we had a late thanksgiving dinner, but on tues he wouldn't touch it). It's hard to find him something hearty and nutritious to eat when we're eating leftovers.
honeydew / 7504 posts
Pasta is successful 90% of the time. 100% is peanut butter - either just peanut butter on a spoon (for a snack) or a PB&J sandwich (for a meal).
wonderful kiwi / 23653 posts
Hmm mine will never turn down some kind of fruit (especially the sweeter dole fruit in a cup thing), and I think she has never turned down mac & cheese! And also cheese.
persimmon / 1281 posts
Ugh I have the pickiest of toddlers. Yogurt never fails. Although he usually only eats a few spoon fills then smears the rest on the table. And if I'm really desperate, hotdogs.
clementine / 935 posts
@petitenoisette: Hahah right? @Portboston: I haven't tried hot dogs yet, but she loves breakfast sausage links!
pomelo / 5524 posts
Yogurt and bananas are his go to!
We're really trying not to be short order cooks. I have specific things I offer each night. If he doesn't want those, he doesn't get something else. He'll protest and throw things on the floor initially, and he'll try to get into the pantry to get us something else, but I'll just tell him no and offer what we had. He gets mad at first, but then realizes I'm not kidding, and will start eating what I made him.
pomegranate / 3580 posts
We have a picky 2.5 year old - granted she's gotten better the past few months, but it's still rough. At that age she would eat a ton of hummus, and has always been a big fan of pasta which gave me the chance to sneak different veggies/purees into the sauce and meatballs. And peanut butter - allllways peanut butter.
pomegranate / 3350 posts
My oldest is very picky but will usually eat pb &j or Pb on crackers, vanilla yogurt and fruit.
clementine / 756 posts
My 14 month old is going through a super picky phase right now and I'm struggling with this! The only things he will eat consistently are fruit/veg pouches (not the all veg ones), peanut puffs, granola bars, and yogurt melts. He used to eat meat and cheese really well, but now refuses it. Sometimes he'll eat cut up fruit but often he wont. He doesn't like mac and cheese, pasta, PB&J, hummus, grilled cheese, beans, grapes, apples, any veggies, yogurt not in a pouch...Ugh.
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