Toddler eating habits

How about making patties with minced pork and putting veges in there?

Bacon and egg pie with some peas in it?

Umm...that's all I can think of for now

Yeah I was going to say make some meatballs (does she like mince?) I grate carrot and courgette into mine. Or spaghetti bolognaise (sp?) and grate veges into the mince. Sorry, just read your post again and you said she won't eat red meat. So maybe try pork mince or chicken mince for meatballs

Have you tried her with fish? Tuna is great for iron and protein. And avocado is a good food too. Thats all I can think of

Gina isn't fussed on veggies either but I honestly don't think there is much in veggies that isn't in fruit anyways. So I wouldn't worry too much on that one.
As for meat, have you tried beef sausages? Gina eats all sorts of sausages. What about mixing pork & beef mince and making little meatballs? As others have suggested, grate veggies and maybe make a mini pork mince meatloaf?
Have you tried fruit yoghurt? I make Gina our own - I buy a tub of organic unsweetened yoghurt and mix a home made puree of fruit (from a can ie plums; pears; mango). You can add as much as you like so it tastes like it's mostly fruit - Gina loves it!
BTW eggs are quite rich in iron and vit A so it's great she eats those

Hey Pepsi

We're having food issues in our house too. Michaela's really good with fruit and veges but won't eat meat so we're pretty concerned about her iron intake.

On days where she won't eat much of anything we've taken to adding a bit of complan to her bedtime bottle. It's ok for children over 12 months and full of vitamins and minerals, if it were a long term thing though I'd pop off to the doc or plunket nurse.

Also you could try annies vege bars and the V8 vege juice (they both taste have apple bases so taste pretty sweet and yummy).

A lot of info I've read on toddler eating habits says that if kids won't eat veges just give them fruit instead for awhile because it's just as full of vitamins etc (I think the only reason veges are considered to be better than fruit is because they have less fructose).

Also a lot of advice from articles, books and the lovely ladies on the forum is to stop offering foods for awhile. We now offer Michaela meat only on Saturdays and Sundays and she's gone from eating no meat to eating meat once a week (this is a huge deal for us).

Good luck.

Raisins are a good source of iron too and my kids love eating them out of the little boxes

Thanks for all the suggestions ladies...definitely plenty more I can try out that I hadn't thought of!

And CaraMel I didn't know that about raisins! She loves those which is handy :)

For breakfast she will eat rice bubbles, cherios, weetbix, honey puffs, coco pops (of course the sweet ones aren't the regular breakfasts haha).

She isn't keen on jam sandwiches or many toppings for that matter, but will eat bread with just butter or honey.

Occassionally she has eaten yoghurt but not always..

To be honest she has very little breastmilk...it's just a matter of a little comfort when I get home from work around 2pm and again before bedtime...so I hope it's not effecting her appetite

My DS is going through a not eating vege phase, he used to love his veges but now he refuses. The worse thing for me though is that he doesn't eat fruit either. I mash a pear into his wheatbix in the morning and he has raisins, but that is it. He has eaten the occasional grape and apple but that doesn't happen often. He just loves meat though and I am sure if I just dished up that he would go to town on it. He doesn't like yoghurt but is more than happy with diary food. I think my boy has a sweet tooth. I suppose its just a matter of perservering which is sometimes easier said than done. He's not well at the moment anyway and is completely off his food even the things he loves so he can't be well.

Edited by Mummy2one

GeorgiaB - we found the same thing with Ollie. He had to have the same food, plate, fork and had to sit in a chair (rather than high chair) now he eats really well ... most of the time.