any fun recipes for kids aged 2?

Your can try to find this book - "First Food" by Dr. Miriam Stoppard. This book teels us all about weaning our baby and feeding an older baby and toddler, with helpful food preparation dos and don'ts. And it also have recipes for ur to try. Now I use it to my daughter. It really works.

when I was little I was always told that you're not allowed to say that you don't like something until you have at least 1 bite. I encourage you to employ this tactic with her. Have her try a bite of something everytime you make it. Refuse desserts/treats if she refuses to try foods. She will slowly learn that things are at least worth trying. Eventually, she will discover some foods that she didn't think she'd like but actually does!

Some things that you might do to help deal with your picky eater include: make sure that she isn't eating a big snack or filling up on juice, soda, or even milk before dinner. offer her smaller portions so that there isn't as much left over on her plate. don't offer bribes or rewards for eating. consider not offering her anything else to eat if she misses dinner or just offer a small, healthy snack. don't let your concerns about her eating become a power struggle. set a good example by eating a variety of foods. encourage your child to get involved in planning and preparing meals.

oh i know how you feel. my daughter is also 2 and she has some strange food preferances. i shall keep an eye on this discus as i need the help myself.

I used to babysit for some fairly picky kids, so I would have to get creative to get them to eat. One trick that I used that they loved is when they wanted something that wasn't available, I would try to come up with something similar, and show them how it could be like what they wanted. Like they wanted hot dogs one night, and there were no hot dogs in the house, but they had baloney. So I rolled the baloney up so that it looked like a hot dog, and told them it was a baloney hot dog. They ate it immediately. This might be a little harder to do with a 2 year old (I think these kids were almost 4, if I remember correctly), but you might be able to get her to eat her "favorites" when they are actually something different.

Im going through the same thing with my daughter shes 16mths old I make smoothies for her drink with lots fruit or fruit and vege juice so she gets all she needs out of this. Also im not sure if you have these but we have ham and chicken in a paste she likes that on her sandwiches. But basically I give things she likes to eat but put stuff she dosent like veges into the drinks.

My children were not especially picky, but they did have their faves & their refuse to try moments. I think at age 2 it's normal to see some picky behaviors & it's not likely to last too long. Just keep offering her a wide variety of foods, and try preparing things she's rejected before differently. She may love raw carrots but not cooked carrots, or she may be more willing to try something on a day that's been less hectic or tiring for her.

She's still a little young for this idea, but I used to get my kids to help prepare food, starting with simple things like stirring something in a bowl. As they got older, we'd look through my cookbooks at pictures, and I let them help pick out what they wanted to help me cook. I started doing that with them at around age 3. As they grew older, they increased their participation in fixing meals, and they enjoyed it more because they helped. At age 2, you could show her pictures of food that looks good, and talk about it a little, or let her help stir up a batch of brownies.