My Daughter is picky abt what she eats, how can I get her to eat? Any Ideas?

Question

My 1 1/2 yr old daughter is going through a stage where shes picky about what she eats, i make her ham & cheese sandwiches, hamburgers, mac & cheese etc. you know the regular stuff to fix but she wont eat any of it. Does anyone have any ideas on what i can feed her or is she just going through a stage.

Answer 1

It's a stage. Kids her age go thru times where they only eat certain foods and totally shun others. (There's kids that live on peanut butter and jelly for weeks.) Even though it may bug you. Offer her a variety of foods regularly - adding in a favorite with each meal. Try giving her the exact same thing you're eating too - kids learn by example and love to mimic adults. Giving her Pediasure as a supplement could help too. She'll outgrow it eventually.

Answer 2

just make her what you know she likes, serve her small amounts and let her eat what she wants but make sure you offer her fruits, veggies also through out the day and she'll eat when she's hungry. kids go through stages, as long as she's eating some foods and maybe you can try giving her pediasure, it's a milk drink with all the daily vitamins kids need, it comes in different flavors chocolate,strawberry, vanilla. the name brand one pediasure is a little pricey but walmart has one by parents choice and it's just as good. my 5yr old daughter has been drinking it for a long time now, i give it to her when she doesn't feel like eating. good luck and don't worry to much.

Answer 3

My son went through that phase and the only thing that worked for me was, i bought fresh fruit (strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, etc) and also some pediasure strawberry drinks that have vitamins and such in them. I would make a game out of making shakes in the blender, he loved throwing the berries in, deciding which ones to put in, and how many, etc. the pediasure was the substitute for milk and he loved them. For meats, he lived off of chicken nuggets for awhile but now he is 3 and in the 98th percentile for height and 95th for weight and perfectly healthy. Hope that helped some.

Answer 4

Sometimes toddlers just don't eat very much. It comes and goes. All the info I read when mine went thru this said to just have little healthy snack-size portions available and they will eat when they feel like it. Do not make her finish her food, that just screws up their ability to determine when they are full and leads to obesity. Just make sure the food you have around and available is healthy, and not junk food. If she's only going to eat a little, you have to make sure she gets her nutritional requirements in as much as possible. Try - half a sandwich, some cut up apples, bananas, or other fruit, cut up vegetables, raisins, dry cheerios. Just make sure not to let her fill up her tiny tummy with cookies, kool-aid, Little Debbies, cheetos, etc.

Answer 5

i might p.c.. her a lunch and cease dropping your cash on college lunches. additionally at abode do no longer cater to the picky ingesting. If she won't consume then permit her sit down there, do away along with her plate without a word. do no longer provide snacks between foodstuff and on the subsequent meal, serve what you have fastened. she will ultimately get hungry and consume. young infants won't permit themselves starve! p.c.. her lunch with healthful concepts as properly as something she likes. permit her understand if she a minimum of tries each and all the failings in her lunch she gets a handle at abode. Ask her instructors each and on a daily basis once you p.c.. her up if she did. Make the handle be a decal on the calendar and 1 / 4 in a jar. permit her understand whilst the calendar is finished each and each month you will permit her ascertain a thank you to spend the money interior the jar. Use it to place in direction of a small toy she might like or something she'd opt to do. Figuring a month could have approximately 23 days in it (minus weekends) you have approximately 6.00 each and every time to place in direction of something like a young infants matinee on the theater, a small toy, admission for her on the zoo or young infants museum and so on.. refrain from making the award approximately foodstuff even with the indisputable fact that in view which you do no longer opt to apply foodstuff as an merchandise of advantages/punishment for her whilst there is all waiting themes. she will ultimately come around and initiate ingesting.

Answer 6

Of course you want to try to have as much of an balanced diet that you can. But, my doctor told me that if your child has one or two things that they like then it's fine for them to eat it everyday and usually it will pass.During this time try to keep introducing new things too . I know with my son, one week he will like one thing and the next he won't eat it. He loves anything if I melt velveeta cheese on it. That's how I get him to eat beans.

Answer 7

Believe that your child will NOT starve or even go hungry that long. (You REALLY have to believe this.) Believe that if your kid is really hungry they'll eat anything.

What you put on the table at any particular meal is what is going to be eaten at that meal. I wouldn't dream of making anything special for someone to eat--I'm too lazy! If your kids doesn't like it they don't have to eat it. They don't have to eat anything at all but they can't have crackers or junk for snack later--they have to have real food and you get to decide what that real food is going to be and when it is going to be served.

Try not to have any junk in the house. Try to give only meal foods at snack time (especially when you're trying to re- establish good eating habits). I set my toddler son down at the table when he is hungry for dinner before the rest of us are seated and give him his vegetables first and he eats them up because he is hungry. I do NOT hand him a cracker while he waits for dinner.
I think the way a Kaiser handout puts it is--You get to decide WHAT and WHEN your child eats. They get to decide WHETHER and HOW MUCH to eat. (I may have gotten that slightly wrong but you get the gist.) That means you have to take yourself out of control of whether and how much your child eats (no forced tasting) but you really have to put yourself (and not your child) in control of what is eaten (no crackers for dinner) and when it is eaten (it isn't lunch time now. At lunch you'll have a peanut butter sandwich if you're hungry.)

Try to act like you are doing your child a big favor in allowing them to eat such wonderful food you've provided. They are NOT doing you a favor when they are eating.

Answer 8

My daughter is 20mos old and is very picky, ketchup or dips dont work or making it fun. I just think as long as she is getting the amount and vitamins that she needs, its not going to hurt her to eat PB&J for lunch everyday. Its bothering me, not her.... Not sure if it helped:)

Answer 9

What does your daughter like? I would try to incorporate health foods into her favorite foods are. I know plenty of kids like this and it was only a phase however, if you need to make her meatball macaroni, all the power to ya....

Answer 10

If you don't put your foot down when she's at a young age, this picky eater thing won't just be a phase.