No Peas, No Carrots, No Corn, No Broccoli!

It was so much easier to feed Beth when she was a baby.

Whatever I mashed or pureed (potato, sweet potato, banana, broccoli, carrot) was fine with her.

Now, a week from her 4th birthday, she has acquired the most awful eating habits. She adores fries, fish and chips, pizza, spaghetti with Chicky Meatball at Cafe Galilee at the neighbourhood library. All the Western stuff.

She picks out the peas with disgust, will not touch corn, carrot, spring onions or broccoli, and will eat only fresh tomato. At dinner last night, she eschewed the chicken in bbq sauce, the button mushrooms stir-fried in coconut, and ate just plain pasta with fresh tomato.

Tonight was worse. She sniffed at the roast vege and chicken goujons I'd killed the laundry deep-frying, and said she didn't like the food. All she ate was a pack of Mamee, the deep-fried instant noodles sold as snacks.

It's enough to make a conscientious parent throw up her hands in despair. What would Jamie Oliver say??