How do i get my almost two year old son to eat? all he wants is chicken and potatoes EVERYDAY!?

Answer 1

LOL How do I get my toddler to EAT chicken and potatoes? All she wants is fruit and cheese.

Answer 2

It's not uncommon behavior, and in time, he will try other things. Until he does accept a variety of foods, make sure he is getting an appropriate kid's chewable vitamin everyday.
His food preferences might be a control issue, or he may have tasted something spicy or slimey or something that he really didn't like and he knows chicken and potatoes are safe. It's really important that you not make meals stressful by making a big deal about it. (Twenty years from now, you will all laugh about it.)
In the meantime, you can try a couple of things. Does he go with you to the grocery store? You might give him a choice of soft fruits to select, something he can eat without preparation at home, such as grapes (slice them in half so he won't choke,) banana, or orange slices. If he will eat fresh fruit as a snack or with meals, you have a start to open his preferences. (Surveys say kids will sometimes turn down a food on 10 occassions before trying it.)
Will he let you make his meal different ways or does it have to be the same every time? If the potatoes are mashed for instance, could you make a happy face in them with green peas? He might eat the dozen or so peas.
Every meal you can offer him a taste of whatever the rest of the family is eating, just a bite or two.
One day, you might be "out of chicken" and offer him another light meat prepared in a similar manner--either pork or fish. Give him the potatoes as usual.
Several days later, when you give him his chicken again, be "out of potatoes" and offer him rice.
When you do offer new vegetables, prepare them simply without a lot of seasonings, or if possible, offer them raw. Crunchy carrot sliced in slender sticks are a little more approachable than cooked glazed ones and so on.
Don't offer him rewards if he trys new things, but do praise him. Also, don't punish him if he refuses.
Have him with you while you are cooking and talk about how things go together. Let him choose among offered vegetables for YOU to eat. For instance, you might line up the normal ingredients for a green salad and let him choose the ones you mix in the bowl. If he is willing, you might let hm tear the washed greens into the salad bowl and toss in the other vegetables that you have sliced. At dinner, praise your little chef, and enjoy HIS contribution to the meal. If he wants a taste, fine, if he doesn't that's okay, too.
Keep trying. He'll come around.

Answer 3

Don't make a fuss about it, just put a tiny portion of some other food on the plate and make no remarks whether he eats it or not. Curiosity will get the better of him at some time and he may try it. Potatoes and chicken are plenty to keep him going for a long time, even if he eats it every day. Insisting that he eats something else will just make an issue out of it and he may refuse just because you are insisting. The more attention you give it, the longer the problem will go on.

Answer 4

My son will be two in two weeks and I feel your pain. only his favorites are bananas and cottage cheese! I know it's terrible, but we actually have to trick my son into eating sometimes. he's obsessed with Thomas the Train and all other trains so we actually say stuff like, "Oh, Danny look, come take this bite of food! It's a train bite!!" And believe it or not, 9 times out of 10, he'll eat the bite. I think alot of his prob right now is his teeth. He's getting 3 molars at the same time so sometimes harder foods are just not gonna happen. I've resorted to buying #3 baby foods and taking them along on trips for snacks or mixing them with other foods to give him more calories and more vitamins. He also gets vitamins every day as well to make up for his eating habits. I asked my doc and he said Danny'll grow out of it and to just keep trying. He also mentioned not to make a big deal out of it or it may end up being a behavioral prob later, not a food preference prob. Hang in there! It'll get better. (Or so I'm told..... :)

Answer 5

My son went through this too, all he would eat was chicken nuggets and peanut butter and Jelly sandwiches. It was when he saw that mom and Dad or even his aunt and uncle was eating something different that he wanted to try what we had, and he liked it. We didn't set it on his tray and give it to him, we gave him what we were eating. He's still a very picky eater, but he eats more than chicken nuggets and pb&Jelly sandwiches now. On the bright side of things, if you can't get him to eat anything else, at least you know that what he is eating is good for him.

Answer 6

Check out this recipe & nutrition book - "The Sneaky Chef" by Missy Chase Lapine. Her second child became very fussy, despite all of her efforts otherwise, and the older one copied the younger one. Made her insane.

She figured out tricky ways to get nutrition into stuff her kids would eat...:)

Your son will grow past this - at least it's chicken and potatoes and not gummi worms and pudding. :)

In the meantime, maybe you'll find out some sneaky recipes to get him to eat the good stuff without realizing it.

Good luck!

Answer 7

Try reverse psychology. Only give him chicken and potato's. My daughter (2yo) will ask for things all the time and as soon as she realizes that you have something different she wants it. They are very curious at this age and always want to try new things, don't make a big deal of it and they will come out of it on their own.

Answer 8

Before you make lunch/dinner give him a choice. Do you want X or Y for dinner. And don't offer chicken or potatoes.

In fact if your son isn't eating veggies and fruit well I would eliminate carbohydrates from his lunch and offer only veggies and protein.

Answer 9

my childrens dr told me that a child will eat when they are hungry and they will eat what their body needs.....My son went thru a spell where he would only eat hot dogs.. he evently got out of that spell. Dont worry, be glad that he is eating.

Answer 10

be stern because after all you are the parent, If he or she is hungry they will eat. So give them a variety of healthy foods and when they are hungry they will eat