I don’t think my 2 year old is eating enough?

Question

For example, today I made scrambled eggs with toast and some fruit for breakfast. She ate some fruit and then asked for cereal with no milk. She did not touch the egg and had like a bite of toast. I gave the dried cereal to her because I want her to eat something although that doesn’t sound filling or nutritious enough to me. She’s always doing something like that and it worries me. Idk how to get her to eat more

Answer

This is normal. Children go through ups and downs with eating. Especially between 1-5. There are so many tough growth spurts. My kids tend to eat less right before a growth spurt/leap and then eat a ton right after it happens. 
I have a 2 & 3 year old. Some weeks they are nibblers and some weeks they eat tons and ask for seconds. My son has been more of an eater than my daughter but my daughter has more extreme ups and downs.
My 3 year old is not a breakfast girl. She is not hungry when she wakes up. She will eat from lunch until bedtime. She loves a bedtime snack. 
My 2 year has to have a big breakfast. He doesn’t usually eat a big lunch. Loves dinner. Doesn’t need a bed time snack. 
Seeing these trends on their eating has helped me serve them the nutritious things at the times they will more likely eat them. 
Be careful just giving foods they ask for. It can be a slippery slope. I do recommend having always foods that can be options when they aren’t feeling what’s served. We allow bananas, oranges, apples, cucumbers, bell peppers, and yogurt as always foods. 
Make sure you let babe help make decisions on what’s being served.
If you aren’t giving a multivitamin, start now.

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In my experience, I have two kids — 6 and 3, this was super normal for both of them. They went through a phase around that same age where they grazed more than they ate full blown meals. Some days they’d surprise me and eat really well, but most days it seemed like they hardly ate. I mentioned it to my pediatrician and he wasn’t at all concerned, he said so long as they continue to grow and put on weight with every visit, it’s not alarming to him, but because he could see I was genuinely concerned, he recommended PediaSure so both of my kids drank PediaSure for about 6 months, and this was primarily just to make sure they were getting the nutrients they needed because they were living off snack foods for a little while. I’m not advising you do that without running it by your doctor first, but it’s something you could mention to them for their opinion if you’re interested in trying it.

I don’t think my 2 year old is eating enough?

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