What should I do when my baby (12 months) only eats dry cereal, fruit, and yogurt?
Ahhh – the never ending worries about food. My 2 year old would consume nothing but fruit roll ups, yogurt and juice if left up to her. If she’s a healthy weight, really – don’t worry. She will be okay. Just don’t fall into a trap of offering cookies, cola, or other sugary snacks to get her to eat more. Keep offering a variety of healthy foods and she will eat when she is hungry. For the protein you might try beans – my picky eater will eat beans. Yogurt works for milk, you might also try cheese. Get a variety of cheeses in string, shredded, slices, ect. If you have a nice deli counter at your local grocery store, stop by there one day when no else is around and get the smallest amount of a whole bunch of meats, pastas and other goodies and then have fun trying out new foods when you get home. As for the meat, will she eat fish sticks? What about putting ketchup on the meat? A lot of little ones will eat some meat if there’s ketchup on it. But in reality, dry cereal, fruit and yogurt i