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As for food, there are a few things that can get him to eat if it’s not his preferred fare of pizza, grilled cheese or hot dogs. One-if I let him make it (sprinkle s/p and olive oil on veggies and mush it around with his hands before I toss it in the oven), two-if I let him serve himself (this only sometimes works…but I’m so used to serving in the kitchen and putting the plate down in front of him that serving it to himself at the table is a novel idea) and three-if I call it any iteration of pizza (ravioli: pizza inside pasta, Stromboli: pizza pockets, quesadilla: Mexican inside out pizza

Maybe some of those would work…you know, once, because toddlers love novelty

There is not a single food item that isn’t hit or miss with her- except maybe PB&J.

I feel like my main dietary concern is that most of what she eats is starch. She refuses all veggies, but eats fruit like it’s her job (banana, apple, grapes, pears, cantaloupe, oranges, etc.).

Sometimes I have luck with a risotto- I can hide egg, cheese, and spinach (or other veggies) in it. This is my recipe: http://mommacommaphd.wordpress.com/2011/07/09/spinach-risotto/

I also have some luck with quiche. I get the premade pie crusts, put in whatever cheese and veggie I want (usually spinach or mushroom) and then it’s just 4 eggs and 1pt of light cream. Bake 15min at 425, and then 30min at 350. You’re done. I usually make one on the weekend and then have it during the week as needed.

She eats a lot of ravioli and tortellini because at least it has some cheese or meat filling for protein.

I also spruce up boxed mac n’ cheese. I add an egg and a 1/2 cup or so of pureed squash- so at least she gets some veggies and protein.

Our other go-tos are cottage cheese (I usually put a couple of teaspoons of wheat germ mixed in it), greek yogurt (which she’ll eat more readily if I mix it with some Light n’ Fit Caramel yogurt), some kind of fruit (apple, pear) and cheese, oatmeal (made with milk). Sometimes she’ll eat pizza- which at least has the cheese for protein.

She eats tons of PB&J, so we use Simply Jif (which has less salt and sugar than regular) and Polaner All Fruit (which also has no added sugar and lots of fiber).

Like you I don’t want to be making multiple meals. So, I usually do like you and put out multiple things and let her pick what she wants. We usually dole out desirables like grapes or bites of bread in exchange for a bit of the main dish- ie eat a bite of ravioli and you can have a grape. If all she winds up eating is her fruit at dinner, so be it.

It’s hard to deal with and I feel like we waste so much food, but I don’t want to force feed her. One thing I do is try to offer her stuff, even if I know she will refuse it. I’ll put a couple of pieces of carrot or chicken or whatever on her plate. My hope is that one day the switch will flip and she’ll go back to eating those things.