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My son is like this and it drives me crazy. The starving him won't work! We went on a cruise and the kid barely ate for four days. I sent him on a mission trip and he barely ate for a week.
Anyway, don't worry if he is eating the same thing every day. You have to figure out what he'll eat and send him with that. If he will eat a PB & J everyday, that's his lunch!
My son is now 16, his food choices have expanded some. We try and force him to eat new foods and it's impossible. Definitely try OT specifically for food depending on how old your son is. I wish I had done this when mine was younger. I have meet several people that have had huge success with this.
My youngest never ate traditional lunch foods. Fruit, cream cheese and bagel (the mini bagels were perfect), pepperoni, cheese, crackers, carrots, cold pizza...
(And for the record--- I don't eat traditional lunches either-- I am not a picky eater I just don't care to eat sandwiches.)
So do you of you have kids who don't like "traditional lunch food". Basically cold foods. He wont eat deli meat. Only crab salad sandwich and I don't want to send that in a lunch box. Not knowing if the temp will keep long enough.
He has basically had PB&J for (school) lunch for the last 3 years. He wont eat school food at ALL. He also wants left over dinner but its not possible for them to heat it up.
Well camp doesn't allow peanuts and I don't know what to feed him.
Any suggestions?
When I see a picky eater I see a kid whose parents did not teach them to eat what is served regardless whether they like it or not. Proper nutrition is what parents give their kids on their plates and if they don't like broccoli for example but they will when you prepare it with some homemade cheese sauce or seasoning.
One person out of 17 in our family does not like onions so onions are left out of the meal whether the other 16 would have enjoyed the meal more with onions. It is the beginning of a discipline problem that he will have trouble with later in life. Just because I like dessert better than the meal, I will still choose to eat the meal knowing that my body requires it to live.
A friend of mine who is 65 is very picky, will only eat chicken breast meat and no other meat or fish. We both live in a seniors center and take our meals in the communal dining room. Her nutrition suffers because the meal choices are not to her liking even though we get the choice between two entrees She has a heart condition, diabetes, renal failure, and is an amputee. She is not getting enough nutrition from the foods she is eating or should I say not eating so in the past 7 months she has been hospitalized twice.
If your kid is trained/hungry enough he will eat what is put in his lunch bag and on his dinner plate.
Sounds like one of mine; I always say "Thank heaven he's my youngest, because I'm all out of fight!" But, I was (and still am) a picky eater, so I don't make a big deal about it... except I never got into the trap of offering "kid foods" (chicken nuggets, hot dogs, mac & cheese, Lunchables) just to get him to eat.
Does anyone remember those Richard Simmons "Deal-A-Meal" cards? I made something like that for him, color-coded by food groups, with each card listing healthy foods he likes. Veggie cards have raw veggie choices; fruit cards have the few fruits he likes; protein cards have beans, sliced chicken, tuna salad, tofu cubes, cheese cubes; grain cards have whole wheat breadsticks, crackers, cold pasta. He picks one card from each group, and I pack it up in a Bento box (so none of the food is touching, natch'). Same situation with dinner: if by chance he doesn't like what I am serving, he gets out his cards and constructs his meal himself.
Does anyone remember those Richard Simmons "Deal-A-Meal" cards? I made something like that for him, color-coded by food groups, with each card listing healthy foods he likes. Veggie cards have raw veggie choices; fruit cards have the few fruits he likes; protein cards have beans, sliced chicken, tuna salad, tofu cubes, cheese cubes; grain cards have whole wheat breadsticks, crackers, cold pasta. He picks one card from each group, and I pack it up in a Bento box (so none of the food is touching, natch'). Same situation with dinner: if by chance he doesn't like what I am serving, he gets out his cards and constructs his meal himself.
Here is the OP. Keep in mind that this is not a chattroom where anything goes. Thank you
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So do you of you have kids who don't like "traditional lunch food". Basically cold foods. He wont eat deli meat. Only crab salad sandwich and I don't want to send that in a lunch box. Not knowing if the temp will keep long enough.
He has basically had PB&J for (school) lunch for the last 3 years. He wont eat school food at ALL. He also wants left over dinner but its not possible for them to heat it up.
Well camp doesn't allow peanuts and I don't know what to feed him.
Mine has peanut butter every day too, and does not like the substitutes. When nuts are banned I've just sent whatever he will like. Fruit, carrot and celery sticks, yogurt (but that's not very appetizing in the heat!). You can make up the protein at other meals - for kids every single meal doesn't have to be perfectly balanced. Just look at their meals for the week and try to balance it overall. I know the crab salad would definitely have to be cold. But is he picky about temperature of other things? My son loves tofu burgers and he wouldn't care if it couldn't be reheated.
My daughter used to like a bagel veggie sandwich. Bagels with cream cheese and veggies like sprouts, cucumbers, peppers, onion....She ate those for years.
When I see a picky eater I see a kid whose parents did not teach them to eat what is served regardless whether they like it or not. Proper nutrition is what parents give their kids on their plates and if they don't like broccoli for example but they will when you prepare it with some homemade cheese sauce or seasoning.
One person out of 17 in our family does not like onions so onions are left out of the meal whether the other 16 would have enjoyed the meal more with onions. It is the beginning of a discipline problem that he will have trouble with later in life. Just because I like dessert better than the meal, I will still choose to eat the meal knowing that my body requires it to live.
until you have a child with sensory issues, don't judge parents.
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until you have a child with sensory issues, don't judge parents.
