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Fussy eaters: Help and advice

Fussy eaters: Coping with fussy eaters of any age from babies and toddlers to primary school age to teens
Average rating: 3 out of 5 star rating

Whether they're 13 months or 13 years old, kids can be really fussy with what they eat. One minute they like something and the next they don't and this can be tiring and frustrating.

More and more kids are getting hooked on junk food too, and with childhood obesity all over the news it can be worrying as well.

So how can you get your baby to experiment with flavours, get your toddler to eat anything nutritious or make your kids take a healthy lunchbox to school? With our help!

We've got some of the reasons why some kids become so fussy, ways to nip it in the bud and brilliant recipes that you and your children can make together.

Other goodtoknow regulars have given their top tips and told us their stories of how they dealt with fussy eaters and our family and nutrition experts have got support for you too.

And we've included advice on how to boost your teens' confidence and give your pre-teens a good body image so that being fussy doesn't lead to more serious problems or disorders in the future.

Babies

How to please a fussy baby
Encouraging your baby to eat
Making your own baby food
Baby food recipes

Toddlers

Is your toddler a fussy eater? Find out here
How to get your toddlers to eat their veg
Dealing with a fussy toddler
How to please a fussy toddler
Tempting food for small children
Read one mum's story of when her two year old stopped eating

Primary school age

Packing a healthy lunchbox
Making mealtimes fun
Getting your kids to eat healthily
Great kids recipes for you to make with them
Rewarding good behaviour
Childhood obesity: Help and advice

Pre-teens and teens

Giving your child a good body image
Boosting your child's confidence
Advice about anorexia
Advice about bulimia
Advice about body dysmorphic disorder

By Vicky Woollaston

Average rating:

3 out of 5 star rating

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freya jones, 9 months

my daughter alice is 17 now and is 5ft 2 and weighs 41kg, maybe 42, i am not sure if this is bad i know it's underweight but i don't know if it is urgent that she gains weight. i thinks she suffers from SED she lives of hot chocolate made with a tiny bit of rice milk and topped up with water, fruit, veg, home made soup and toast with jam honey or pure margerine and japanese food occasionaly, she refuses to have dairy products and insists that she remains vegan due to beliefs, she is vegetarian although has grown up this way so this does not worry me. She will only eat carbs at tea time and sometimes for supper, i'm not sure what to do, i have been to the doctor but they say she wil improve in time but i'm scared she will just get worse. At one poiint last year her weight dropped to 36kg and we managed to get it up by incresing everything she would eat, she did this without a problem but still refused anything different. My main worry is that she does not have her periods, this is really rare as she is 17. She has always been small built as everyone in our family is but i still worry she is ruining her future with her limitation.

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