am at my wits end, my son who is nearly 3 will not touch any food accept cereal, and toast, and banannas and?

I’m going through this with my 3 year old son & yes its totally frustrating when they won’t even try the food you have made. I have started to get him involved with cooking the meals we have. This has made a huge difference as he has fun helping me prepare the dinner (even if its just mixing the veg into the saucepan) & when its ready he’s eager to see what it has turned out like & i do not have too much trouble persuading him to try the food. Yes he’s not eating a full dinner but it is a start. You can try all sitting at the table with the tv turned off & he has to wait until everyone has finished dinner before he is allowed to go & play with toys. Also if he’s currently having pudding then i would stop it & use that as a treat only for when he does make an attempt at eating his dinners. Another thing is the food on his plate might look too much so he is put off – try making his portions smaller to see if that helps you can always offer more if he does eat whats on his plate. Also monitor how many drinks he’s having during the day as he may be filling up on juice/milk so his appetite may be smaller.

I have never made him a separate meal away from the family meal unless we were having something he could not have or we were eating later & it would not be fair for him to wait and i would never prepare something else if he does not eat what he has been given. Also my son is constipated so he has recently been prescribed something for this. Apparently constipation can have an affect on the appetite & once you get into this vicious cycle its very hard to get out of. I’m not saying your son is but it wouldn’t hurt to get him checked out if your at all unsure of his bowel movements.

Totally normal… and totally frustrating 🙂 Many kids go through a phase where they are SUPER picky eaters. He’ll grow out of it. on the plus side, he seems to be eating foods that will give him a good amount of the nutrition he needs. Plus, he’s eating different textures (crunchy, lumpy & smooth) which is a good sign. When I was a toddler, I apparently only ate hot dogs for about 2 months, so it could be worse 🙂

Keep offering him what the rest of the family is eating, while also offering him the foods that he will accept. Eventually, he’ll start trying other things. It’ll just be bites at first, but he’ll get there. My 2yro also won’t eat things like cottage pie, chicken dinners, etc. He wants his foods separated and just frankly doesn’t like chicken. It’s annoying to cook two meals, but hey, they’re toddlers it’s kind of what they do.

Don’t make a big deal out of him eating or not eating something on his plate. Just make sure that he’s growing on track, eating enough & just keep trying! Remember back to when they were just learning to eat and we had to introduce a food 12x before they’d eat it 🙂

Sit him down and tell him you have a new game plan. For the first week serve him some of what you are eating on top of offering a smaller portion of what he would normally eat. Believe it or not, he will not starve himself. Offer a rewards system. A sticker, maybe a special fruit juice/desert. Something healthy. Bananas are a great desert! If he refuses to eat, do not let him leave the table until everyone else is done. If he is throwing a temper tantrum, put him in time out and then back at the table. If he throws food, make him pick it up.

The second week only offer the lunch you’re eating. And so on until he’s only offered what you’re eating.

Make a wholesome meal, with plenty of options. A meat, a veggies, fruit dairy and grain. We don’t all like the same foods, keep a journal on foods he will eat and foods he’s just not interested in. It takes up to 10 times of trying a new food for a child to honestly form an opinion whether or not they like the food. Keep offering. Keep up the rewards. And make sure you explain to him what is going on and the importance of him having a healthy meal.

The cereal and toast should be for breakfast only. The banana should be offered as a pudding after dinner is finished.

I would offer him the good dinners you’re making and if he doesn’t eat it he gets nothing else. I cook for our daughter and although she went through periods when she wasn’t as hungry (usually due to teething or a cold) generally she does eat all the meals I or my husband cooks. She used to try and refuse it, but she didn’t get offered anything else.

Another funny stage my daughter went through is wanting to be spoonfed again, even though she was perfectly capable of feeding herself.

Source(s): Mum to a 2 yr old

i may well be thrilled if my 3 12 months previous daughter might consume that plenty! it rather is a catalogue of what she eats: fowl Nuggets Pizza Cheerios Fried Rice warm canines (trouble-free, no longer even a bun) it rather is it, no longer various a catalogue. If i attempt to conceal end result or greens in something she eats, she notices as quickly as I provide it to her, and the two won’t consume it or %. something off of it that she would be in a position of no longer consume. I provide her supplementations standard, so a minimum of she has that, She’ll be 4 in a pair of weeks and weighs under 30 pounds, the docs are not frightened approximately it, yet I project she’s no longer getting adequate. easily, i’ve got tried each little thing from no longer letting her have something until she eats what I provide her, yet that doesn’t artwork, because of the fact it rather is like she does not experience hungry, she’ll circulate all day without eating until I provide in and enable her have some thing from the record above. i attempted showing her i will consume it, or somebody she seems as much as will consume it. I attempting bribing, i’m additionally at my wits end with getting her to consume, i surely do no longer understand what to do. yet diverse little ones will react in a diverse way too. attempt hiding different ingredients in some thing he will consume for awhile. as an occasion, you may slice some carrots and conceal them interior the Spaghetti. you may get him to help with the foodstuff prep. some thing my daughter reacted properly too grow to be diverse plates (Zoo pals) or according to hazard reducing the foodstuff in diverse shapes, or only small shapes and supply him a toothpick (if he’s significant adequate) to %. the foodstuff up with. i’m hoping this helps.

Have you tried Junior Baby food dinners, were going threw this with our 5 year old, She has been eating Chicken nuggets, Mac&Cheese and wouldn’t eat other foods until recently. she likes McDonald’s chicken nuggets, apples,yogurt, Macaroni and Cheese, Recently she has been eating better she will now eat a Burger,Chicken without breading, home made Spaghetti, this is after some firm you will eat this, if you want that trade offs, a child cant always have what they want, keep offering foods kids like green beans, French fries, Hamburger Patty, ours likes green apples and caramel topping to dip it in, Kids don’t like a lot of seasonings, Baby foods are bland so when they change to real foods they have a different taste you might try taking his food out before you season it a lot.good luck with your 3 year old hope this helps .

all children go through this faze. try not to make a big deal out of it or he will pick up on your anxiety and continue to refuse other foods. keep giving him the foods he will eat for a few days and don’t mention it. Then start putting a small piece of a different food on his plate with the other food he will eat. If the family is sat together, relaxing and talking he might eat it without thinking and learn to like other foods

Source(s): I work in a nursery

stop offering the ceral etc, a healthy child will NOT starve themself when food is on offer. if he doesnt eat what u cook then let him g hungry, he may go hungry for a day or two but he will start eating what is offered, even if its jus small amounts

But try and stick to similar meals, for example if u have veg with dinner, stick to the same 2/3veg, this way he will get used to new tastes slowly.

I agree with aleta. Mealtimes should be as relaxed as possible. If you start making them an issue then your child will become more reluctant to eat different foods. Children do like familiar foods ao i dont agree with stopping the foods you are already giving, jusy maybe reduce the amounts of them and introduce a few alternatives at the same time. Get your child used to seeing them and eventually they will try them. Dont tell them off or force them to try the foods. Encourage and praise whem they do.

The biggest thi.g to remember is not to get stressed about it. If you do one of two things will happen.

1, your child will become anxious at mealtime

2, your child will learn to use mealtimes to control attention.

Good luck

Source(s): 12 years childcare and development experience.

My brother and sister where like that young my mum went to the doctors and was told that’s fine as long as they are eating and the food he is eating is good for him. What might work is decorate his food make a jacket potato look like mister potato head and arrange his dinners in to faces and shapes.

Have you seen the kids programme big cook little cook? you can find it on the net CBeebies they make fun good for you foods here they are http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/bigcooklittlecook/

If his food is fun looking he may eat it.