What do you do..

When your 2+yr old wont eat the dinner you have made for them?
Do you offer something else, like fruit or yoghurt, or is it, eat this or nothing?

Tonights its scrambled eggs and pea's, and he has eaten it before, I even put tomato sauce over it, because he loves sauce.

Yeah Caden does the same, he opens the cuboard and points to stuff and says "want one" or "lolly" lol because he knows where I keep his treats!

I was going to reheat his dinner tonight, and offer it again, but didnt, I will do that next time he wont eat it.

The nights Ive sent Caden to bed without dinner when he has refused to eat it he hasnt woken in the night either, but he chows down breakfast and has a snack mid morning.

He's gone off to bed now, had a bottle before hand though as per.

We offer a variety of food for dinner - including new and favourite foods. If he chooses not to eat, he goes to bed without. He's tried it on in the past, but we don't offer alternatives if he doesn't want the food.

He's been eating really badly recently and been waking up about 10pm for a bottle. We've been giving it the last week or so but only because he's been really sick (high temperature and bad cough) but that's about to stop again. If he wakes up we'll get him up and offer his dinner again.

When I have been really strict with him he always improves cos he knows there is not much choice. I think it's why he eats so well at day care too - he knows there are not going to be alternatives and he'll go hungry if he doesn't eat.

Yeah Caden gets his normal bottle before bed as well Fliss.
I think I'll keep up with what Im doing then, so if he doesnt eat what he's given then he goes to bed with out.

We are doing that now as well. If Jackson doesnt eat it and its something he's eaten before he goes to bed as is. I dont and wont offer anything else unless its something new he's never had before.

Im a firm believer that children wont starve themselves, they will eat if they are hungry.

We also do the same as Kebakat

My nephew doesn't eat well at all and tends to "pick" at his food, then play then come back and pick again, then play again so when he's with us he either eats what he's given or has a bottle and goes to bed without any solids. Now he knows that when he is at our place that he has to taste the food at the very least and if he doesn't like I'll make something he's used to like spaghetti

We are the same, if its food he's eaten before then no alternative / pudding is offered but if its a completely new food and bribing him to eat a few mouthfulls doesnt work then I know he doesnt like it and he gets vegemite toast.

We still do a sippy cup of very weak milo (quarter tea spoon disolved in boiling water and then 80% milk) at bed time.

I've had to get tough on snacks as he just wants biscuits and carby food (sugar free but still not great habit) so I say he can have one cookie / cracker after he's eaten the orange / apple etc, I put the fruit in a bowl and leave it out for him and every time he asks for biscuit I offer the fruit. I figure if he doesnt eat it he wasnt that hungry, 70% of the time he will happily eat the fruit.