Oh i’m yet to be at this stage lol

Thanks for sharing this article

What a trying situation. Hope things start looking up. I am fortunate enough to have a good eater but he is still young and I hope he stays that way.

Feel your pain mama bear….hope there’s light at the end of the tunnel (and wine in the fridge).

I have worked out what she likes, and it’s pretty healthy. Provided she has something she likes on the plate, she is willing to try new things. Slowly, slowly and it all works out.

I’ve never been in this situation, but if I was in your place I might try letting the children go to bed without their dinner one night to see if that would encourage them to eat their dinner the following night.

No problems with my daughter now. But when she was younger (she’s now 13) she was so slow at eating. It could take her an hour (no joke!!) to eat one bowl of soup. And I was repeating the same words every night: “Please go on.. please go on.. Eat… Eat..”
I’m glad it’s over!

lol m-i-l brought her kids up with rice and steamed vegies for every meal and if they didn’t eat it, that meal would be served for the next meal.

I would be looking into the delivered meal service. If you google “delivered childrens meals” quite a selection come up.
Baby Bistro: Home
Animal Box Wild Goodness
Little Bud: Healthy Handmade Meals & Home Delivery
Mummy Meals
To name but a few.

Sounds like you could do with a break and you could tell the children it is this for dinner or go hungry. You could look into some delivered meals for you as well. Stress free and when the children catch on that you are not going to pander to their every whim they may just actually eat your meals when you get back to cooking.

Wishing you well.

I would be looking into the delivered meal service. If you google “delivered childrens meal” quite a selection come up.
Baby Bistro: Home
https://babybistro.com.au/
Animal Box Wild Goodness
https://www.animalbox.com.au/Little Bud: Healthy Handmade Meals & Home Delivery for …
http://www.ellaslist.com.au/little-bud-food-baby-toddler-meals-home-delivery-...

Mummy Meals
mummymeals.com.au/
To name but a few.
Sounds like you could do with a break and you could tell the children it is this for dinner or go hungry. You could look into some delivered meals for you as well. Stress free and when the children catch on that you are not going to pander to their every whim they may just actually eat your meals when you get back to cooking.
Wishing you well.

argh I feel this too – my girls 8 and 4 – are becoming increasingly painful when it comes to dinner and breakfast and lunch! – they used to love cooked carrots now they need to be raw! – great one less thing that I have to cook lol! – but it needs to be served with a list of particular options that plainly just dont go together on the dinner plate – for example my 4 year old asks for (everyday) white rice, soy sauce, raw carrot and green olives for dinner! – please let there be light at the end of this tunnel!

I remember a few meal battles with my kids, not too many. As long as I remembered raw veggies for one, no gravy for another etc it all went smoothly :/

My daughter eats her dinner