My son is 18 months old and will only eat yogurt with Rice Krispies and graham crackers. Occasionally, he will eat waffles with syrup, but it is nearly impossible to get him to eat dinner or lunch meals. Can anyone recommend some ways to get him to eat other foods, or some recipies for tricky eaters?
My 18 month old son will only eat yogurt and crackers, how can I get him to eat other foods?
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Introduce foods that are similar to yogurt – such as yogurt mixed with a little cottage cheese (so he still has the same flavour and texture), then give him yogurt with a little squash in it (just a tiny bit of squash at first), perhaps a small amount of banana in yogurt – then as you change the proportions there will be those three things that he will eat.
Another thing you could try is to take him somewhere else around lunch time – a friend’s house or the shopping centre – give him what you have with you. He may cry for yogurt and crackers, but if you only have apple sauce or macaroni & cheese, and an apple, then he will have to go hungry, or eat it.
Don’t push the food on him, just tell him that those things are all you have. If he cries, put the food away and carry on doing what you were doing. When he cries for food, bring out the food again, and see if he will eat it this time. You may have to repeat it all afternoon, but chances are by the time you go home, he will have eaten apple sauce, macaroni & cheese dinner or an apple.
Another technique that worked for one of our foster children that didn’t want to eat was this. We have a selection of hand puppets, and when our 22 month old foster daughter was at the table, my own daughter would pretend that the "Little Mouse" was coming to get her dinner – the little one thought this was so funny ….. she would gobble up her food! She had been with us for a week when we tried this, during that week she had hardly eaten anything except a few grapes and some milk, but the first day we tried with the "Little Mouse" puppet she ate a full baked potato with chicken curry!
first of all, this is a phase. all kids (in my experience) go through it. the best thing to do is stop giving him anything to drink but water. milk and juice will fill him up so he’s not as hungry. another thing you can do is to stop giving him those things all together for a while. he will get hungry enough to try something else. also, try having him help you cook. my oldest would not eat asparagus until i had him help me cook it, and now he loves it.
but like i said, it’s a phase, don’t get too discouraged. he will grow out of it.
good luck!
Try giving him yogurt that’s flavored like something. Say like strawberries. If he likes it, try having him eat strawberries. Then he can try a bunch of other berries. Then a bunch of other fruits. Then, the next thing you know he will be trying all sorts of foods.
If you keep giving him only what he wants he will never eat nourishing food. Quit feeding him junk food and when he gets hungry enough he will eat what you put in front of him. Any kid will be a picky eater if you allow them to be.
If you don’t offer him yogurt with rice crispies and graham crackers, he wll get hungry nd have no choice. He will not starve to death, but otherwise you might be in this cycle forever.
Offer him any kind of food you want him to eat, it can take a kid up to 15 tries to eat something new. And remember he won’t starve himself so don’t worry if he doesn’t eat much at one meal, he will eat at the next meal.
He is testing the limits of his control over you.
Offer him what you want him to eat and if he refuses, give him nothing. When hungry enough he will eat.
The short deprivation of food will not harm him and he will learn he is not in charge.
Left in control. he will make your life Hell in the future.
He’s training you well. He likes sweets. Try lunchables. They are fun and he might think they are special. Kids also love chicken nuggets and spaghettios.
i used to give my kids food and put them in shapes of faces and use different colors. They play with it but sooner or later they actually do it. It works well with fruits and vegetables.