Hi
DD2 eats less and less real food - she just wants snacks or breakfast cereal but anything real is point blank refused or chucked across the room. She won't eat lunch or tea and it's getting worse not better. I continue to offer her a meal but I eventually end up giving her something snacky - crackers, fruit, or some yoghurt or rice pudding just to make sure she eats something. I try to wait a gap so she doesn't associate it with the refusing food but I still feel like I am rewarding her behaviour. Even the list of guaranteed foods she'll eat I'd dwindling - peas and or sweet corn and pasta used to be a safe bet but they get chucked too. I know she is probably bored of the same stuff - I do still offer small amounts of other non-guaranteed stuff - tonight - salmon, broccoli, courgette, noodles and a cherry tomato - all chucked without tasting, shaking her head, saying , no, no, no and then asking immediately for a snack. She hardly eats any protein things (bar yoghurt and sometimes milk). She is growing and charges around like a normal 20 month toddler as she is getting calories from the snacks she does eat but I am worried that she never tries anything new and now barely eats anything real or unprocessed apart from fruit. If it doesn't come out of a packet, she is not interested. Her diet is so limited though and I'm starting to get a bit worried about her overall nutrition and general health.
Reassure me this is normal and she will start eating other stuff. DD1 eats the best she has ever done - but she was no way as limited at dd2 is.
Thanks
Big cat