Any suggestions?? Fussy Eater.

Hi there,

My son is 2yrs 7mnths now and he will not eat any vegetables at all no matter how small i try to make them. I've tried them raw n cooked but he will not eat them, when it comes to dinner all he eats is the meat off the plate. He loves his fruit without a doubt but I just feel like a bad parent coz he won't eat his veges and I don't know what else to substitute them with at meal times. He's not to keen on pasta, he likes rice. So if anyone has any recipe suggestions that may help me or any advice at all that would be much appreciated.

Thanks

DP won't eat vegies and for him a lot of it came down to the fact that his parents weren't keen on them. DD loves her veges but we always have them on our plate and we've found if we give her something different for dinner then she won't eat it - she wants the same - so we watch what we eat. Also we don't offer anything else or make a separate meal. We all eat the same thing!

My daughter was the same and all she would eat was cherry tomatoes or raw red or yellow capsicum because they are sweet. Have you tried eith of those with your son?

I found with my daughter that if we made a fuss it would put her off the vege even more so we got to the point where we didn't stress about it and just ignored her protests.

Otherwise I wouldn't worry too much and don't feel like a bad Mum. If he is healthy and happy that is all that matters really.

Just to make you feel a bit better and to put things into perspective, my DD doesn't eat veges except potato, baked beans! Doesn't eat fruit except banana, and is a self proclaimed vegetarian, but does eat tuna, eggs. She is an extremely healthy little girl with the ocasional BF still and for the life of me I can't understand how they survive without the basics but she does and lots of kids do until they figure it out. She does have an issue with textures so I never push it, but DH and I do pull out hair out sometimes trying to come up with non repetitive meal ideas and snack ideas whilst keeping it healthy.

Thank you all for you advice, Will try some of the things you suggested. I guess I just worry because people say that he's skinny Yet he weighs in "average" I put it down to that he is going to take after his Daddy, Tall n slim with a fast metabolism lol, mind you not just his daddy, All the males on myside are blessed with that gene too. Time to start looking for some new recipes....Any good websites or books you can recommend??