EVERYONE TELLS US THAT THE CHILD WILL GO TROUGH FOOD FADS BUT I AM AT MY WITS END. MY 3 1/2 YEAR OLD HAS ONLY EATEN SAUSAGES ,PEAS AND POTATOES FOR 16 MONTHS. SHE EVEN HAS THIS IN HER PACKED LUNCHES AND MORE TO THE POINT I AM GETTING FED UP WITH COOKING IT !! ANY HELPFUL ADVICE. JO.

Hi Groovy Daisy,
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Hello I also have a problem with my 21 month old son who will only eat birds eye chicken dippers and chips!
Iam at my wits end. He's been eating them since he was 9 months old but when i was weaning he would eat anything. Now he wont try anything new and just gags. He will eat crisps and biscuits but not fruit, bread, veg, pasta ect. Please help.

Hi groovydaisy - as a short term measure I would make sure that the sausages are the best you can buy in terms of nutritional value even if it means buying them separately. Ditto the peas, if you can get them fresh in season thats good as they lose some vit C in freezing. Same goes for the potatoes -none of this freeze dried stuff plz.

Other than that, chill. Keep eating a good varied diet yourself and wait until she asks to try some. You could cheat and use peas as a garnish on some sorbet (sorbet for the vit C) -or trifle- but you would have to keep a very straight face while you ate it.