Help...

Logan is being a bloomin nuisance when it comes to meal times. He WONT eat meals, all he eats is crisps and chocolate!

Any ideas girls, im so fraustrated and worried as he isnt getting a proper diet!

AARRRGGGHHHH

xxx

I know how you feel as Scarlett is a complete nightmare too, her portion sizes are not even big enough to fill a sparrow! she wont eat veg at all so i disguise it in mash (which she will eat until it comes out of her ears) and when i make mince meat i chop up broccli really small and mix it in, she deos eat lots of fruit so i give her that as a snack rather than crisps and chocolate, its hard though as you want them to have something, have you tried the fruit flakes, they are small pieces of fruit coverered in yougurt, Scarlett goes mental for them so that is also one of her snacks. The only thing i can suggest is to cut down on the naughty snacks and then when Logan is hungry he will hopefully eat some good food, you may have to go through a couple of days of tantrums though!

Good luck!

Donna and Scarlett 16 mnths and 24 week boy bean.
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Hiya matey

poor you, must be gettin ya down hunny.
I have been fairly lucky with Riley's eatin so far, but I thought it might help if I said what I do with him.
(although I am waitin on him hittin the same phase as I think lots of kids go through it).
Anyhow, I put Veg on his plate whatever he is eatin. Even if its a sandwhich I but those individual frozen veg portions, the "steam fresh" ones ( but we hav the shops own version lol,) and I pop it in the Mocro for like 2 mins and Riley just seemed to figure that every meal comes with veg! He often leaves it till last but he tends to eat it mostly.
I think all you can do is keep offering him different food and hope he starts to eat. I imagine its frustrating tho mate .
the vitamin drops are good, we hav the Abidec ones and i put em in a tiny bit of juice then after its gone I fill his cup up with the rest of his juice.

sometimes its worth tryin just offering him things like dried fruit chips instead of crisps the are dried apple crisps in tesco that look like crisps and they are really quite nice too lol.

not sure if i hav been any use lol.
hugs
Nikki and Riley 15 months x x x x x x x x

i had this...

Hey there,
Well my little one went through this 2 n it was soo frustrating.
We had so many battles n it even got 2 the point where we was near enough force feeding her as we were desperate 4 her 2 eat!!!
She sensed my anxiety and meals time were war times!!!! The HV advised sum kinda vitamin drops which helped and I carried on tryin new stuff. Eventually she did start eating better, mainly ready kiddy meals or tins but it was sumthing.
She is a good eater now as long as she hasn't had 2 much junk food in between!!!
She has only recently started eating bananas( only fruit she will eat!), broccoli, curry. Doin really well but has been a steady progress.
Keep trying.He will eat when hungry hun. Ask HV what they would recommend in the mean time. My kid is 3 now n wanting 2 fit in with the other kids at nursery which helps I rek!!!!
Good luck hun.

mummyand2. xx

darn pesky kids!

oliver goes thro phases where he is a pain in the butt at meal times, altho it does usually coincide with him either being poorly or having a tooth coming thro, but sometimes he is a nightmare.

i eventually adopted the attitude that i would offer his meal a couple of times, try and get him to eat it and if he wont, then i take it away and that is the end of it. he doesnt eat crisps and chocolate, because i dont let him have them. the only time he does have chocolate is if he has been a good boy and eaten his own food, then i let him have a tiny bit, but other than that............

no crisps, but i dont eat them so they are never in the house.

all i can suggest is stick with it, but dont get him treats in order to get him to 'eat something'. my HV (and lots of other mums!) told me that a child won't starve itself, it will eat when it is hungry, if logan knows that you are going to offer him something naughty, then he will refuse his food. they are cleverer than we give them credit for.

hang in there hun - just be firm!

love kelly, oliver 18 months and emilie, 4 months today