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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is OP.  Please instruct me how to do the portion. At every dinner, I have 50% for carb (she normally will eat 30-50% of that, but sometimes none), 25% veggie (does not touch that), 25% meat (not eating it these days). There is always a glass of milk that she never touches and I drink at the end of mealtime. I can add a small apple that slices up, and I think she can eats 5-6 pieces of it. It is still not enough food that she still goes hungry. Should I add additional different carb (like bread rolls, muffin) on the side that I know she will eat? But those are breakfast food, so she will eat same breakfast food & dinner food? Isn't it unhealthy if I increase her carb intake like this at mealtime on top of her poor diet?

I know what she wants to eat, we have cheese pizza every friday (she will eat) but I cannot feed her cheese pizza every night. She also likes cupcake, muffin, cookie, crackers, icecream and juice. I am happy to give her that as rewards for eating some dinner, but not to feed her up with these junk food.

She does not let me to take away her food tray or take her down from booster seat, but she keeps telling me that she wants "snacks" and "juice". Sure, I can let her sitting by me to keep me company to eat, and so I should stay calm and not offering any more food before her bedtime? She did that a few times drinking a full bottle of water because she was hungry, and she wets the bed (diaper too full) and crying/waking up in the middle of night. Of course, I can put a protective cover over bedsheet if that helps.

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I always serve fruit to my kid at dinner because it is her gateway food that gets her started eating instead of digging in and being upset about the other things on her plate because I know that one she digs in and gets upset it's very unlikely that a sufficient meal will be eaten and it's really unpleasant--but if she eats her fruit she'll frequently start eating the other things on the plate because she's still hungry, and then it's fine. We also always have some kind of carb, some kind of protein, and some kind of vegetable, but I don't expect mine to eat everything from every category every night. I'd make a list for yourself of foods your kid will eat in each category and then make sure that either the protein or the carb will be ones that she will eat. Will your child eat plain cheese? Do you make your own muffins? We do that and there's a lot you can do with muffins to make them healthier but still really good tasting.[/quote]

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