I used to feel pretty happy with Jamie's diet. He would try new things, and overall ate a pretty good variety of food with lots of fruit and veg. He has had a mainly vegetarian diet but I always made sure he had veggie food that contained lots of protein and iron.
Not anymore.
He now wants the same thing every day for lunch: waffle, vegetable fingers and peas. I can also get him to have scrambled egg because he likes to help stir it, and beans...but that's about it these days. We seem to have gone down a slippery slope and now he won't try anything new or even things he used to eat no problem.
I've been trying to gradually ease new things in. The other day, I snuck a quorn chicken nugget onto his plate and he was fooled as it was breaded like the veggie fingers - and ate it. Then I really pushed the boat out and added some sweetcorn in with his peas. Fail. He then wouldn't eat any of the peas!! I'm trying to just go with it, and generally let him have the things he likes, with a few of the things he doesn't on the plate too. I think it's just his age, and I don't want mealtimes to become a huge battle, so I am trying to stay relaxed. But it's hard not to get cross when he won't let even a morsel of the delicious cottage pie I have made a huge batch of for the freezer, pass his lips.
Luckily he'll still eat a lot of fruit, so he won't be getting scurvy anytime soon. In an effort to get him sitting to the table, I've just ordered a booster seat so that I can strap him in place, as Daisy now needs the highchair. Hopefully us all eating together will help him get over his fussiness. In the meantime I am bulk-buying waffles!
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