All She Wants To Eat is Crackers and Breads! 27 Month Old

[Spectra]

She use to eat veggies, and loved eating steak, chicken and pork.  Now for the last couple of weeks she is refusing to eat supper with us and continuously asks for bread and crackers.  After 2 hours of this after supper I usually give her something she wants to eat so she doesn't go to bed hungry.  What should I do??

[em_here]

hi there, it is a very normal phase, we have been through this too. What I do is offer breakfast, dinner, and tea, along with 2 snacks, and it is all what we as a family are eating and do not offer an alternative.  Yes, it meant DS DID go to bed hungry sometimes, but thats the way it was, and he soon caught on that he needed to eat what we ate as was not preparing alternatives. What I DID try to do was offer meals with desirable foods, along with other things that he may not like but they still were offered

ie: he loves chicken nuggets, so I would maybe offer chicken nuggets, and veg (he is not so keen on), and then some potatoes.  If he didnt eat it all, or none of it, I would take it away with no fuss and then he would have to wait until the next offering. hth a little xxxxx

[jennyh]

both of my dd`s went through this faze.i just kept putting their dinner out with ours and eventually they did start picking at their food again.i think its a kind of control aspect,they know they have control of the food they want to eat now.hugs,it drove me bonkers.

[Spectra]

You're right, I've been offering an alternative because it was easy, but I really shouldn't.  Even if she whines like crazy!!

Definately drives me bonkers  too.

I had a question,  you must be in England Emma?  Does your child actually drink warm black tea?  I think that is so interesting when I hear so many on here say they're child drinks tea.

[em_here]

I am in England yes Nope lol, never drank warm black tea, they loooove milky weak tea but never heard of what you said lol.   xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

[jennyh]

mine does ,she loves it.

[Spectra]

Hehe, that's cool.  Sounds like me, love my tea milky milky milky weak!

[Jimbob]

I am from the UK and none of mine have drank warm black tea. Having said that I have not given them tea at all as they are happy with apple juice and water.

Kelly

[lin7604]

i'm from canada and my ds loves warm black tea or herbal teas!   he go bonkers when at grandmas as she has all sorts of flavors, and always drink what ever she has!

my ds is verypicky too and he is 18 months now and it's just getting worse and wose as time passes?  he used to eat everything at 12 months then it started around 14.5 months and keeps getting worse from then on.  I too have started being strick and this is what you are getting and that's it, he also has gone to bed with a empty tummy some nights but i'm not getting into making 2 different meals for supper time!  i just don't know what else to do??  he will only eat fruit, toast, soup, cereal and yougart/ apple sauce.