Guest guest Posted April 10, 2009 Report Share Posted April 10, 2009 Thanks for all the advice! I especially appreciate some of the detailed ideas from Jeanne and others. It's been very frustrating lately! ~Danielle , Jeanne B <treazured wrote: > > I had picky eaters too, including a couple of grandsons who absolutely will NOT touch the food if it contaminates other foods on their plates. Wal Mart has plastic divided plates in the seasonal section. > > How about buttered macaroni in one section, his preferred veggie with cheese sauce in another and a couple of baked chickenless nuggets in the third? > > My kids grew up on cream of tomato soup with grilled cheese sandwiches. Will your little one eat that? Mine liked it in a mug and could dip and slurp till it was gone. > > You can sneak carrots in by boiling them, then pureeing with a hand blender or food processor, add a little milk or cream, butter, and a little (very little) salt. Make buttered toast sailboats (make toast, butter, cut off edges and cut bread into triangles) to sail on the orange colored sea. > > Canned green peas, whirred up into a puree, also with a little milk or cream added, makes a nice cream of pea soup. Our second son used to ask for " Fog soup " and it took me a while to figure out that since we called a heavy fog, " Thick as pea soup " , he called pea soup " Fog Soup. " I usually made it with dry split peas but sometimes just didn't have the time when our Rob wanted his bowl of fog. > > If peanut butter is OK, make peanut butter pinwheel sandwiches. > > Add a little bit of honey to smooth peanut butter. Cut the crusts off of a slice of bread, then spread with peanut butter. Roll up then slice into pinwheels. I used to cut stems from celery stalks and put the pinwheel on top. > > Coconut mixed into the peanut butter and honey mix is also good and if your little one has enough teeth, chop up some roasted peanuts and mix it in with the peanut butter. > > Ants on a log > Celery > Raisins > Peanut butter (or other nut butter) > > Clean celery, stuff with peanut butter, line up raisin ants along the celery log. > > Hand Grenades > Apple > Peanut butter > Celery > Wash and core apple. Stuff with peanut butter. Wash celery and cut into strips, stick the strips in the peanut butter. > > Refried beans - we ate these with corn or flour tortillas or corn chips. How about a bowl of refried beans with cheese on top and let the little one dip and munch through lunch or dinner. Fingers are nicely washable. > > French Toast Dippers > Make French toast, slice into 4 strips. Serve with a tiny bowl of syrup or jam. > > Hope this helps. Jeanne in GA > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 11, 2009 Report Share Posted April 11, 2009 My (now 16 yo) daughter was a " selective " eater (I didn't like the label " picky " ) when she was younger (and her name is Danielle too!). One thing that helped me is to look at what she ate over the course of a week - if it was a pretty good variety, I didn't sweat it. She's also " highly sensitive " and certain textures, smells, flavors were REALLY off to her (but I didn't learn this about her until much later). I decided I was not going to have food battles (or potty training battles!) and if she wanted the same thing for days or weeks on end, it wasn't the end of the world. I always offered different things, if she happened to try it, great, if not, I tried another time (and sneaking in things like pureed carrots etc is a great idea). Today, I can make new dishes and she willingly tries them (including casserole type recipes that, before, she wouldn't touch). So, it did work itself out! Jann " mylameoww " <mylameoww wrote: > Thanks for all the advice! I especially appreciate some of the detailed ideas from Jeanne and others. It's been very frustrating lately! > ~Danielle Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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