Help needed in the toddler department please
Asher used to be a fabulous eater. Anything I placed before him was gone. Meat, veggies, fruit, cheese....even beets and broccoli. And then he hit 15 months and everything went down the crapper. Things he'll eat one day will be thrown off his tray another. The only things I know he'll eat is peanut butter on anything, catchup and scrambled eggs. Today, after struggling to get him to eat something for lunch, I caved and gave him apples and peanut butter. After making him a new chicken salad recipe with grapes for dinner, he spat out his test bite and refused to eat anything else. I even tried spaghetti! So again, I caved and gave him...yup...peanut butter on bread.
I'm getting so freakin' frustrated! I keep trying new recipes and new styles but for the most part he either tosses them off his tray...another annoyance of mine...or spits it out and refuses to open his mouth for anything else.
I've seriously considered the 'oh, well...if you're not going to eat what mama gives you, then you'll go to bed hungry' tactic...but I just can't. He's too little and really, I'll be the one getting up with him in the early morning to nurse or feed him, so what's the point?
He refuses all veggies now, unless I hide them. And it pisses me off because I know he likes them. He used to eat them just fine for months! Most meat products I have to dip in catchup, for him to eat them. I need help. I'm getting towards the end of my rope and am about to let Steve make him all his food.
Any suggestions?
I'm getting so freakin' frustrated! I keep trying new recipes and new styles but for the most part he either tosses them off his tray...another annoyance of mine...or spits it out and refuses to open his mouth for anything else.
I've seriously considered the 'oh, well...if you're not going to eat what mama gives you, then you'll go to bed hungry' tactic...but I just can't. He's too little and really, I'll be the one getting up with him in the early morning to nurse or feed him, so what's the point?
He refuses all veggies now, unless I hide them. And it pisses me off because I know he likes them. He used to eat them just fine for months! Most meat products I have to dip in catchup, for him to eat them. I need help. I'm getting towards the end of my rope and am about to let Steve make him all his food.
Any suggestions?
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just my two cents, though...
Good luck. I know it's frustrating, especially after preparing a nice meal only for it to get chucked on the ground.
It'll work out :) Kids will eat when they are hungry. what i try to do in light of my "light eaters" i cut up a plate of fruits and veggies and crackers and then have it on the table. so then instead of them eating a "breakfast" or "lunch" or "dinner" they eat snacks all day. i try to keep a variety of stuff, so they get different vitamins, yada. as long as they aren't eating sweets all day, i don't mind them not eating when we eat. in fact (since i've been pregnant) i've found their methodology in eating fits my nausea and the need to eat constantly but small light snacks :) love ya! just my two cents :)
Hazel LOVES it and it makes me feel better about the veggie-snafu! :)