Do your children eat their vegetables? Do you find yourself endlessly nagging your children to eat up? If you’re fed-up with mealtimes with your kids, why not ask Supernanny for her advice ? We’re going to interview Jo Frost during this series and if you’d like to ask her anything about helping your child eat healthily, here is your chance. We’ll pick some of the best questions and we’ll post her answers up on the Supernanny website. Just post your questions or dilemmas on this forum.
My son is 3 in october and will only eat certain foods. He will not even try anything new and is always pushing his plate away. I have tried everything. I have now got to the point where i give him what i know he will eat to save a stressful time at the table.
I have tried encouraging him with offering something nice for a bite of apple and also played eating games...nothing will he try!!
I have the same problem with my 4 year old and 2 year old. They both refuse to eat anything that they don't recognise as chips or chicken nuggets. I've stopped cooking them anything like that now and dish up what everyone else is having. Last night we had fresh ravioli and my 4 year old actually tried that and ate it all. I've gotten to the point now that I dish up what I've cooked and if they don't eat it then it goes in the bin and they have to wait until the next meal. Not sure if it's the right way to go about it but would love to hear how other people deal with it. My 8 year old also went through this phase and now eats anything!!!
My daughter ate absolutely everything, all fruit, all veg, the lot, until she was 13 months old and gradually (she's now 18 months) has whittled that down to:
Bread Cheese Baked Beans Plain Greek Yoghurt (with small bits of fruit mixed in - she won't eat fruit any other way)
Very occasionally she will eat tomatoes or something in a tomatoey sauce, but most times if it's not bread-based, she will just sweep the plate off the table and not even try it. She won't even eat the unhealthy stuff kids are supposed to like, like chips and nuggets! (which I know I should be grateful for!)
At that age I can't even reason with her and tell her if she doesn't eat, she won't get anything til the next meal-time...
Any tips? We eat together as a family, she is given her independence to eat with fingers or her own cutlery (as trying to feed her results in hysterics!) and has loads of praise when she does put something in her mouth, the last thing we want is to give her a complex about food, but it looks like she's acquiring one anyway!
Is this a phase? Or are we doomed..... help!
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We are also going through the same. We have a 3yr old and a 1yr old. Our 1yr old, at the moment will eat anything and everything but our 3yr old eats: Beans on toast Pasta Cheese Spread sandwhiches Ready break Yoghurts He will have the odd banana as a last resort when we refuse chocolate and crisps and he drinks lots of fruit juices. We are limiting the amount of fruit juice he drinks as I think he is just filling up on that. When he does eat we praise him loads and occasionaly give him a treat if he eats everything. We make a big deal that his little sister eats everything hoping that it will encourage him to eat as she gets all the attention. We are at a point now that if he won't eat what we give him he goes without. Breakfast time isn't a problem as he will tend to have either Ready Brek, toast or a Yoghurt and lunch is not too bad as he will have beans on toast or a sandwhich but tea time is the battle and I just hate the idea that he is going to bed with an empty stomach!
Hi, we have a daughter of 6 and a son of 4. My daughter got quite skinny over the summer hols as we went abroad and there was not the stuff she is used to. She and her brother do not like any cooked veg and I would like to encourage them but how? Also how can I convince my son to try new foods? He likes just one type of sandwidge, bread with salami and butter. Now that he started Reception I will need to give him a lunch box and I worry as what to put there. Should I give him the same every day? Or should I give him what I think he should eat and hope he will eat it? Or should I try to explain the benefits of eating all things? Thank you.
Please would Jo Frost open a webpage just for nannies. I am having difficulty managing parents!Unlike Jo I do not have permission to tell the parents where they are going wrong. Despite my qualifications and experience it appears that my professionalism is not fully understood. Has Jo had this experience in the past and how has she managed problem parents when in their employ?
My 3yr old used to eat lots of fruit and veg and would ask for fruit for snacks. Now it is a struggle to get her to eat any. We struggle to get her to eat veg at mealtimes and she has developed a sweet tooth. I tell her seets are not for everyday. I try to bake treats so i can control what goes into them. How do I get her back on track with fruit and veg?
My son is 7 and became food phobic at 2. He only eats dairylea sandwices and no hot food, fruit or veg. He is very healthy and growing well but it is affecting his life now. we have tried all methods known to man without any forcing or bullying. We are now trying Joes placemat thing and hoping! Do you think it will work?
Hi i have a 5yr old who will not try any different food no matter what we try, & we have tried everything! We have watched loads of your shows & followed all the tips & advice you give,only its getting very embarasing when we go out or she has a party with her friends & all she will eat is a dry bread roll or a plain biscuit, you would think she would want to be like the other kids! I have made a sticker chart & started just offering her what we have or even things that other kids crave for also no treats unless she will even try a lick of a new food but still we get no where & she will make herself nearly sick if you put anything in front of her. please let me know if i have to starve her until the next meal or just give in & give her something that she will eat many thanks kellett
Hi Please help, I am at my wits end and mealtimes seem to end with me in tears and my son eating rubbish just so he has food in his belly. Ever since weaning he has been fussy and would only eat fruit or baby rice. He is now 15 months and will now also accept bread, dairylea, chips, chicken nuggets and turkey drumsticks - and the obvious chocolate, yoghurt or crisps. I feel his diet is becoming more and more unhealthy and is nothing like the diet I dreamed of giving him of home made food. Anything different makes him turn away, purse his lips or scream his head off. I dont want to give him crap food but Im so scared of going back to sleepless nights through hunger that he is getting his own way. Now he wont even eat his breakfast cereal (which after months of trying, he finally accepted weetabix with a bit of sugar on). His weight is perfect and he is generally happy but this food phobia is making me so depressed.
Success!!!!! From 9 months after a chronic ear infection and burst ear drum our daughter has survived on yoghurts (no bits!) grapes, chicken dippers, sausages, bran flakes, crunchy chips, marmite sandwiches, salt and vinegar or prawn cocktail crisps!!! None of which could be touching. She is now 7 1/2. After a week in Greece eating only chips and bread we (as parents) had had enough so on return we told her we were doing Super Nanny! We made a colourful chart with a sticker system detailing breakfast lunch and dinner, the deal was one meal a day she had to eat whatever we had (we went for very basic meat and two veg meals to start)So one type of sticker for foods she had eaten before another for new foods she tried and a super special one for new foods she tried and then ate! Amazing results she now eats broccoli, carrots - raw roast potatoes, roast chicken, casserole, cous cous and has even crumbled a biscuit into a yoghurt, food combining. We have as a family of four just sat down to a roast dinner and all had the same main meal and pudding and I can not tell you how emotional it was. All this has only taken two weeks!! If only I'd been strong enough to have started this sooner, I thought I would post this because I know how desperate I felt but there is light at the end of the tunnel. You can do it!
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