When did your great eater become picky?

[Dumbledork]

I'm going to say around 2.5yo and it sucked until just recently.

She's 4.5yo now and will try and regularly eat just about anything. Well, she'll try various meats, but she still is very picky and almost refuses to eat meat in her regular diet. She's nearly a vegetarian, but at least now she'll try new stuff now. I'm hopeful she'll warm back up to it like she has other foods.

[Deleted]

18 months or so. Maybe a bit earlier than that. We had a great period from 12 months until about 16 or 17 months where he ate whatever we put in front of him. Now it's a lot harder. He generally still likes everything, it just depends on the day whether he is willing to eat it.

[Deleted]

15 months. From 6-15 months he ate everything, he was my kale baby. Pickiness started at 15 months, peaked at 18, and is slowlllly ebbing now at 26 months. He still won't eat most vegetables or meat though.

[ilikedonuts]

14 months

[dcrunnergirl52]

Around 2.5 years old they got picky. Before that, they were garbage disposals. Actually, DS1 is still a garbage disposal but DD is much pickier.

[Brie]

We have not had a serious picky phase yet at 19 months. He has had a few picky weeks here and there but it usually correlates to teething and just wanting soft things like yogurt or applesauce. There was also a phase where he threw everything off his tray, but that was more of a "hey, throwing is fun" thing than an "I hate food" thing.

Most nights he will eat at least 2/3 of his dinner, and at least try a bite of everything. He isn't overly fond of veggies and eats those the least, but loves meat, bread, eggs, beans, fruit, dairy, spicy food, salad, and other weird non-toddlery foods. (And he does eat some veggies and will always take a bite of what's on his plate before deciding he's not interested.)

I realize it could still be coming though. But so far so good.

(frantically knocks wood)

[Deleted]

EVERYTHING WENT TO SHIT AT AGE 3

[anaps28]

Between 2 and 2.5 he stopped eating so many things he used to love. He just turned 3 and started eating meat and poultry again. Some days he eats everything in sight other days I'm trying to get him to eat at least one meal. It's whatever way the wind blows I guess.

[bunch]

Apr 22, 2014 19:09:27 GMT -5 @carmensandiego said:

EVERYTHING WENT TO SHIT AT AGE 3

La la la la I can't heeeeeaaaaaar you.

[jr009j]

On her first birthday, she suddenly refused to eat annnnything but fruit, carbs, yogurt and cheese. She has doubled what she eats in the last month (so starting at 2), but that is still a limited range.

[karinothing]

We haven't had one yet. At least nothing that lasts longer than a week. He is 2.5.

[wilbs]

Apr 22, 2014 19:07:41 GMT -5 Brie said:

We have not had a serious picky phase yet at 19 months. He has had a few picky weeks here and there but it usually correlates to teething and just wanting soft things like yogurt or applesauce. There was also a phase where he threw everything off his tray, but that was more of a "hey, throwing is fun" thing than an "I hate food" thing.

Most nights he will eat at least 2/3 of his dinner, and at least try a bite of everything. He isn't overly fond of veggies and eats those the least, but loves meat, bread, eggs, beans, fruit, dairy, spicy food, salad, and other weird non-toddlery foods. (And he does eat some veggies and will always take a bite of what's on his plate before deciding he's not interested.)

I realize it could still be coming though. But so far so good.

(frantically knocks wood)

This makes me feel so much better. DS has been a yogurt addict the last 4 or 5 days, but he just had a new bottom tooth pop through and it looks like the top two are close behind. I was worried we were already entering the super picky phase at only 9.5 months.

[Deleted]

Apr 22, 2014 18:43:16 GMT -5 @mrsbecky07 said:

18 months or so. Maybe a bit earlier than that. We had a great period from 12 months until about 16 or 17 months where he ate whatever we put in front of him. Now it's a lot harder. He generally still likes everything, it just depends on the day whether he is willing to eat it.

Ditto this exactly. Once the kid knew what goldfish and cookies were, we were screwed.

[teatimefor2]

At 19 months, I feel that he eats about 2/3 of what he is offered and then we typically give him more: cheese, crackers, etc. He is pickier than he use to be, but not bad overall. It varies per day. One day he loves peas, the next he can't stand them. It's actually annoying.

[kittycatlove]

Around 15-18 months. Still sucking at age 3.

[Deleted]

2ish. Although in her defense she still has great food weeks and I'm discovering it's a matter of whether or not she wants to eat rather than not liking a food. She's kind of a preoccupied, busy all the time stage and sitting to eat is hard..lol.

[shepoz]

DS tried everything we offered him until about 2.5yo, then refused to eat anything but pb&j, mac and cheese, or chicken nuggets. He is 4 now and we still struggle to get him to be adventurous (because, you know, chicken takes a huge leap of foodie faith) but he's starting to get there. Depends on the day...

[moopoint17]

DS gave up all dairy products (including milk) at 16 months. Ever since then, it has been going downhill. Although now we've reached a plateau ... that or we've stopped trying to give him new foods.

[winecheery]

Tra la la la la…this will NEVER happen to my preshus...

[drloretta]

Around 2, give or take

[dcn]

We had one around a year where he basically only ate white stuff for a month. Cheese, cheerios, bread, pasta. Other than that when he is sick or teething he can be pretty picky. Thank goodness for pouches! He is just now starting to resume some of his good eating. He even ate a few black beans tonight!!!!

[KKD]

Both of my girls were 18 months. It lasted until we cracked down after they each turned 3.

[Mrs.Syntax]

DD1 has always been picky.
DD2 came along and I thought I was finally doing something right because she was eating everything right from the start at 6 months - feta cheese, walleye, guacamole, etc. Then something happened around 12-13 months and she narrowed her list of acceptable foods considerably. She's still not as bad as DD1 was/is but she's less willing to try new stuff now.

[jade]

Around 12 months I think. Recently at 25 months it has started turning around. He asked for broccoli tonight! Bringing him to the store with me and having him help me pick out the vegetables seems to be helping.

[kitty]

Around 2 she started being much less open to new foods. Since she had so many things in her repertoire prior to that point, from the outside she still seems like a great eater but it takes a lot more to get her to try something new at this point.
We are supposed to do an egg challenge at the allergist this summer to see if she has outgrown her egg allergy and I'm nervous she is going to refuse to try the egg. I'm planning to bring different options (scrambled, fried, hardboiled, egg "muffin") with the hope that one will entice her!

[speckledfrog]

It started at 15 months and then really ranked up by 18. Still going strong.

[grosnl19]

DD has seemed to have started already at 6 months.

[grosnl19]

Apr 23, 2014 3:20:56 GMT -5 grosnl19 said:

DD has seemed to have started already at 6 months.

16 months

[arch01]

right at 12m, it turned around at about 18m. the key for us was figuring out what he really liked (chicken, pizza) and start calling everything one of those things.

[Deleted]

Apr 22, 2014 19:09:27 GMT -5 @carmensandiego said:

EVERYTHING WENT TO SHIT AT AGE 3

But that won't happen with DS because he already had a picky phase, right? RIGHT?!?