At that age I used to make an ice cube tray with foods for them to eat from (so really small portions with a variety of foods), no force. When they were hungry they would visit the ice cube tray and nibble from it.

I try make my toddlers food fun. Sometimes that might just be a fun plate or cutting things into different shapes.

Offer what ever you are eating and eat together. Get excited about foods, prepare food and cook together

It certainly does get a little difficult at this age.
They can have sensory aversions to food too.
Keep food separate on a plate, often they hate food mingling.
Offer foods over and over again, up to 20 times.
Offer varying textures, colours, smells and tastes.
Let them use their hands to eat.
giving chopsticks or using different bowls can help.

Good luck

Keep offering different foods and don’t get frustrated when they are turned down. My daughter has decided she wont eat anything with sauce and it currently only eating plain pasta or rice. A couple of weeks ago she disliked both.

I know its frustrating but just keep offering a variety of textures, combinations, colours and flavours.

Make shapes & pictures like faces trees animals with different foods like ham, cheese, frankfurts etc. This makes it fun & they tend to eat it all

They do seam to go through these phases. I’d honestly not worry too much about it, but keep offering new things every day, even though you know it’ll get refused or thrown on the ground. Just offer what you are having. try to sit down and eat at the same time, get him involved with cooking too. good luck.

Keep trying to offer new things, he will take it eventually. And use what he does eat to introduce variety ie: he eats apple now, so try cutting it into different shapes, having it raw, cooked, in biscuits, cakes, pies, peeled, unpeeled etc. This variety seams to help them accept new foods as well. Make sure you’re sultanas are organic if you can. Offer him the same dinner time meal and you eat.

Sounds like he wants to eat things he can pick up with his fingers. Just try little plates with healthy little pieces, like little pieces of cheese, fruit, veggies, meat like chicken drumsticks, home made chips etc. good luck.

I had success tempting a fussy eater by trying Cheese and Apple Quesadillas, which are easy to make, and your son is old enough to help you make them. You can use a variety of fillings, and they’re suitable for grown-ups too.

If he likes fruit, try making some fruit kebabs and make a game out of dipping the fruit into some plain or flavoured yoghurt. If you have metal cookie cutters, try cutting vegetables into shapes with the cookie cutters to make them more fun to eat.

Eat the same things as him, don’t prepare a ‘kids meal’. They don’t like to feel left out!

perseverance that is the only answer, kids like to test us and only eat what they want, keep putting it on his plate but don’t fuss over it too much

Try to make food fun, and dont stress, they can smell your fear!

soups are god thick ones, chicken sweet potato chips

there are some good comments here

yogurt is good i freeze fruit it makes it more exciting

Try to give him new food in really small amount together with things that he will eat

I agree – let him help prepare snacks and meals and he might become more interested. My Miss loves snacks such as dip (which can be veg and dairy laiden), toast, tinned spag, fruit, cheese, eggs and anything she helps prepare. I think (and hope) it’ll be a stage for him. Good luck!