One-year-old picky eater driving me NUTS!

My little girl did more or less what yours are doing. Not to that extreme however although I think if I left it it would have gone that way.

She still goes through fases where this week she will eat fruit but wont touch veg or meat at all. And the next will only eat veg and then only eat meat.

I will totally relax around food. I also found to just place food around the house in little sucker plates she will eat stuff more readily.

I put a plate out give her a spoon or fork and then feed her as well. Dont try and force at all rather back down and let hubby take over for a while if you find yourself getting irritated at all. They pick up on it.

Offer a wide variety of food and just keep on offering. They will take it now and then and spit out and that is okay.

Remember most kids only eat their palm size cubed at any given moment. And you might just have to offer food more often.

When McKayla is teething she only wants porridge yogurt and boob milk. If you dont want her to wean yet you can express and give it to her in a sippy cup. Try and offer some raising ect as a snack. This one just absolutely loves them.

Cut food in small pieces for her put it on a tray in the garden and play with it with her. Let her feel it and touch it. Let Dad play as well and make funny faces. She might be more likely to eat it as well.

Play games around the table and let Dad steal some food of her plate and see if she wont do the same.

Dont know what else will work but small things like this made a difference this side.

My mum went through the same thing with me with meat and veges. She discovered that it was actually the meat that made me so angry and then anything that I "thought" was meat I wouldn't eat. In the end mum gave up offering meat to me and eventually I went back to veges but I've been vegetarian ever since.

If mum tried to force me with meat I'd go hungry for days. But I think what jacobsmum said is right, if she doesn't wanna eat it then let her down and if she comes back hungry reoffer what was offered in the first place. Or make it really fun and if she eats what you want she gets a treat. Dad use to bribe me with stuff to get me eating new veges hehe worked though.

She's gotten a little better in the last two days -- now she'll eat arrowroot biscuits. LOL. I have been relaxing about it and just giving her what she'll eat, and sneaking spoonfuls of veges/meat in there when I can. Tonight she ate a whole jar of the Only Organics Moroccan Lentil Casserole, so I consider that a small victory. She also ate a bit of banana. Woohoo!!!!

Hey Kathrine another thing you might try is to let Emma eat off yours or hubbys plate while you are eating, if that works in with your meals, it does get a bit messy but many times when the girls wont eat their meals Karl will sit at their table and they all eat off his plate .... of course after I have provided both the girls with 'big girl forks' like daddys!!