A mum has said her 'stubborn' toddler has become 'obsessed' with cheddar after she scoffed cheese during her pregnancy.
Maddy Alexander-Grout and her husband James, 40, says their two-year-old daughter Harriet refuses to eat anything else.
The couple has tried 'every meal in the world involving cheese' but she 'turns her nose up' at anything that isn't simply cheddar.
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The 38-year-old mum believes the tot's addiction to cheddar is a result of her scoffing cheese during pregnancy - she has had to resort to grating cheese over vegetables to get their daughter to eat any.
Maddy, from Shirley, Southampton, said: "She will eat everything if it's cheese and nothing else, she's a pain.
"But it's not like she likes all kinds of cheese-basically anything cheddar or cheddar-form, that's it!"
Everyone in the family love cheese as well, apart from Harriet's six-year-old brother Ben.
They even claim at one point they were ranked the number one purchaser of cheese from Saisnbury's in their home city of Southampton.
The exasperated mum says she won't give up on finding different foods for the fussy tot.
"She says 'I love cheese mummy, I want cheese mummy, please can I have cheese mummy' - that sort of thing all the time, and cheese is 'yummy' and anything else is 'yucky'," Maddy added.
"It's so hard to feed her, she's a stubborn little one. We have basically had every meal in the world involving cheese.
"I put other things on her plate all the time so that she can try them and investigate but it's always a no and the dog ends up eating most of it.
"I absolutely love cheese as well. We're a very cheesy family, apart from my son who hates it, so we buy at least four blocks of cheese a week.
"On the Nectar app for Sainsbury's you can look at what your top purchases are for and from that I know that at one point we were the top purchaser of cheese in Southampton."
Regular meals for the toddler include cheese on toast, cheese omelettes and cheesy pasta - her favourite snacks are cheese and crackers, Wotsits, Quavers and Cheese Strings.
Since Harriet refuses to eat anything without cheese, it usually ends up in the mouth of Dexter, the family dog.
Maddy's diet during her pregnancy included a heavy amount of cheese consumption because she suffered from gestational diabetes and was advised to eat more cheese.
Gestational diabetes is when the blood sugar gets high during pregnancy because the body can't produce enough insulin to meet the bodily demands of pregnancy.
The NHS advises that women suffering from gestational diabetes should eat three portions of calcium-rich foods daily.
Among these calcium-rich foods is cheese.
Maddy, who is the founder of a free parenting advice app called 'Parenthood', said: "It's weird because I had gestational diabetes when I was pregnant so I ate lots of cheese and now I'm wondering whether or not it could be connected.
"With gestational diabetes, you have to eat high fat to keep your blood sugars low and cheese is one of the things they suggest.
"Cheese was all I ate when I was pregnant so maybe I got her into that habit.
"When we were doing baby-led weaning and putting food in front of her she loved these really tiny cheese cubes and she went for those over everything else.
"Anything else you put in front of her she would turn her nose up at, she doesn't want to eat it."
"We try very hard to mix it up a bit so she might have macaroni cheese or vegetables with cheese on, but we literally have to grate cheese over everything.
"It's pretty difficult but we haven't given up completely. We are still putting fruit on her plate. We do try but most things she turns her nose up at.
"I don't think she's necessarily scared of other foods but she just has such an affection for cheese that it just comes first."
