very picky 3yr. old?

I've been having the SAME issue with my 2 1/2 year old. My pediatrician recommended I pick up a copy of the Sneaky Chef. It provides recipes for tried-and-true toddler favorites while sneaking in some fruits and veggies. I've not picked up the book yet but have already begun sneaking veggies in since that's the only food group she absolutely will not eat. I shop at Whole Foods Market and purchase Snap Pea Crisps. They're dehydrated peas that taste like chips but are full of vitamins and low sodium. We call them her "green chips". I also buy Veggie Straws and Veggie Chips, which are another variation of dehydrated veggies. At breakfast, I sneak a 1/4 can of cooked carrots into her scrambled eggs and then mix in some cheese and ketchup. The 3 1/2 year old I babysit doesn't even realize there's carrot in them! I also keep Wheat Germ in the fridge and use it to sweeten her Cheerios so she gets additional vitamins. I sometimes make muffins and toss in a bit of the wheat germ too. Just sneak it in where you can! She doesn't have to know she's eating it. Eventually she'll get out of this picky phase.

Make sure you are giving her vitamins and just introduce new foods to her...I feel like children decide what they like based on what they are given...just my personal opinion...you must have some point introduced her to hot's a mac-n-cheese in order for her to have liked it...also what about sweets how many sweets have you introduced her to...because that's another thing I've noticed some children will go into that phase once sweets are introduced because let's face it nothing taste better than sweets...if it were me and I'm a little strict I'd tell her she wasn't getting up until she finished her veggies...it won't make her sick to eat em she just knows she'll get the mac-n-cheese from you if she whines enough and or doesn't eat what is given to her...I hope this isn't taken the wrong way. But you are the adult!

I agree with the sneaky chef deal. I actually have Deceptively Delicisous. Same concept.

My 2 1/2 year old used to eat everything. Now he won't put a carrot in his mount. Little does he know It is in the middle of his grilled cheese and in his macaroni. :~)

Make sure you keep the veggies on the plate so your daughter knows they are there and important. Have her try one bit and just know that she is still getting her nutrution.

I honestly have raised 4 teenagers and one ingredient I discovered very early....they are going to basically consume what and while they desire to. in case you start to stress him and make ingesting a capability warfare, you will lose every time. you're plenty extra advantageous off appearing very casual approximately his weight-alleviation plan. supply him a number of each and everything you consume on his plate and enable him decide on. in case you do no longer act worried approximately which meals he eats, you will take off the stress he has been feeling from you and could in all probability finally end up attempting extra issues. i be attentive to that some teenagers, or maybe adults, have important problems accepting specific textures and/or flavors. I honestly have seen it with alot of people in my husband's kinfolk. and there is no longer a ingredient you're able to do to alter that, except the youngster has a great desire to artwork on it. (Which they hardly do!) even however, the checklist of meals your boy eats is exceedingly long. My sis-in-regulation eats from a catalogue a pair of million/3 as long as your son's and she or he has had 4 grown teenagers and is a grandma now. Giving supplements is unbelievable. supply him time. he will in all probability discover ways to consume many extra issues while he watches his friends at school and tries to repeat them. otherwise, palms off, mom, you won't be able to alter it!