Advice on food to tempt 18month old

pickle

What about an egg-flip every day? Eggs are full of vitamins. Perhaps some icecream in it as well to add a bit of fat content. My daughter's the same, I find if I pay too much attention to what she's eating she gets worse. My daughter's favorite is fish cakes (tuna and potato cakes). When I got desperate to get some weight on her I'd give her a magnum icecream, but it sounds like your daughter won't eat sweets either. I found sausage rolls were good too and tomato sauce to dip them.

Staciep88

I dont know if what Im about to say is the right answer but I saw it on a tv programme, not sure what the lady was called but she was an 'expert' on it. The lady went round to houses where the kids would only eat what they wanted - in alot of the cases the children would only eat chocolate, crisps, yogurt etc. And the lady said not to force them to eat something different, but to let them eat what they want and encourage them to do so, and then just slowely introduce them to the stuff you want them to eat. Im sorry I cannot remember what the programme was called, I will try and look it up. As I said before, I dont know if this is the right answer just something I have seen on the tv but I can tell you that it worked!

tattoed_bum

could you try a full fat yogurt in her milk to make a milkshake ,this may help to stretch her tummy a little ,you could always try the reverse phsycology bit i used to put out a plate of my sons favourites then tell him they were mine and not to touch ,it worked every time lol and he used to think he was getting away with something naughty ,i used to pretend telling him of and we would end up laughing it took the stress out of mealtimes

jackomdj

Another thought - get your little one in the kitchen with you to "help" make dinner. Both of mine love making pizza with me. I get all the ingredients ready & they put it ontop. It usually ends up a sloppy mess (especially the little one's) but it always cooks up fine. We also make things like cheese scones where you just rub all the ingredients together. Potato wedges are another one they love to make. Also we make chicken dippers & although I have to do the combining (raw egg!) they love crushing the cornflakes.

Just watch out for a messy kitchen. I find that they enjoy the food they have made more than if I made it.

Nicky

pukkamum

Just been thinking have you had your daughter tested for anemia? a friend of mine's little boy has no appetite and when tested was shown to have anemia which causes lack of appetite and obviously this in turn makes the anemia worse could be worth asking your gp X X X

purplepatch

I've got a 20 month old DD. The other day she turned her nose up at her own lunch, we hardly got any down her. Then afterwards, I had a tuna jacket spud for my own lunch, sat eating it off a tray on my lap, guess who appears and stuffed most of it herself! I do quite often find that she finds food so much more enticing if it's mine!!:rolleyes: :rotfl:

Good luck anyway, they are hard work at this age.

lauren_1

Lift your little ones up to the cuboards or to the fridge and let her pick something out.

My ds ate nothing but toast, yoghurt and raisins for nearly 3 months until i started to involve him with his dinner. It gets better, really it does.

Psykicpup

RustyFlange wrote: »

Toddler buffet, that could be interesting .... What kind of foods could we do? obviously veg and fruit can all be used but other things like chicken etc?

things like fruit & veg can stay out for ages but I would only leave 'cooked' stuff out for a while - maybe 1/2 hr but re- introduce it maybe once or twice after it had chilled again - I remember from where I have worked in canteens etc that food should only be out 2 hrs max from chilled (although we all know it stays longer at home parties & is safe)

I would try cocktail sausages, cheese, fruit, biscuits, mini pizzas, even noodles. Maybe even ham or cubes or slices of any meats (rolled up so they look 'posh')
those veggie fingers you can buy frozen make good 'buffet' stuff even for adults & you could make your own
baby food can make a high protein 'dip' for dippy bits....

I would also make sure the 'bits' are cut really small so it not such a challange- make each bit no bigger than a large grape even...'cept biccys lol

hth