How can i make my toddler eat more solid foods?

Question

I'm having difficulty feeding my 1 year and 8 month old son. He seems to depend so much on milk.

Answer 1

make it fun for him. toddlers are visually stimulated.

get a special plate of his favorite tv character (dora, bob the builder, etc) and use it only at meal times.

make his food fun.
-cut sandwiches up with cookie cutters.
-slice up carrots and cucumbers into log-like slices so they are easy for him to grab-provide a small cup of ranch dressing to dip them in.
-wrap up a slice of lunch meat and cheese into cresecent rolls (the ones that come in a tube) and bake as instruction say.
-make the colored,shaped pastas (corkscrews,pinwheels) and add a little bit of sauce or butter to them.
-slice up apples into circles with peanut butter on them

anything that is colorful and easy for him to grab should be appealing to him. get creative and be patient-the more you introduce things to him-the more he'll get used to trying them

Answer 2

Give him milk only after meals. don't show him his cup until
he is half way eating. I hope your not still giving him a bottle.
Cause if you are you need to break that habbit now. Give him
finger foods until he start asking for more food. If that doesn't
work then try giving him oat meal to fill up his stomach, then
give him a sippy cup with milk. See if that works if not then I
hope someone else has a better idea. Good Luck.

Answer 3

Don't worry about it. Milk should be okay for a while, they need all that complete nutrition. Their little teeth aren't even too stable yet!

Try with soft foods like applesauce and bananas at first to transition gently to solid foods that don't hurt the tummy and cause gas.

Answer 4

I let my son eat the same things that we were eating and that seemed to fix the problem rater quickly. Just make sure that it is cut up into small enough bites. I remember a couple of times that I actually had to let him eat off of my plate just so that he would eat dinner. Another thing is just letting him feed himself. Don't worry though he wont starve to death....he will eat when he gets hungry.

Answer 5

Cut down on the milk, it is filling & most children that drink alor of it will not eat much & are vitamin & nutriant deprived. Only allow milk after meals or inlue of a snack.. Good Luck

Answer 6

I would try adding fun to meal time. Make broccoli trees and they are big giants. try ants on a log. celery with peanut butter, and raisins on top. try making different things with milk in them. have him help you cook, so he sees it go into the food and he will eat it. And milk is not a bad thing to eat. It seems as though he is needing more vitamin D. try vitamins Flintstones are a child's favorite. Hope this helps you.

Answer 7

Make sure he is at the table when you feed him. Put his food in front of him and let him feed himself. I am defintely not a cook so when my girls were small, I would take frozen peas and microwave them for just 2 minutes. Let them cool and put them in a bowl. They ate them like popcorn! I did carrots the same way. They loved them. I quickly found out that if they could put it in their mouth they were happier and ate better than me trying to shove it in. Good luck! Just remember he will eat when he is hungry. As long as you are offering him food, I wouldn't worry about it.

Answer 8

start off with something soft, like mashed potatoes and then slowly give him like steamed veggies-- they're healthy and they're not too firm, not too soft. he'll get used to using his teeth.