dd has given up the 2 things she does eat.

[TaggieCampbellBlack]

chicken and pizza are suddenly tasting funny.


She's now down to

Bread
Cake (plain)
Biscuits
Crisps

What now?

How the actual bloody hell do I create a meal out of that?

[Lougle]

crisp sandwiches are yummy. Not very healthy though, I agree. Poor you.

[claw4]

Is she under stress? Ds is eating almost the same as your dd, although he has never eaten pizza or chicken, we had managed to get him to eat, sausage rolls, chicken nuggetts, all of which are now gone.

He eats
Dry toast for breakfast
Dry toast for lunch
Smiley faces and yorkshire puddings for dinner

Crisps and apples with skin off for snacks and thats it.

The minute ds is under any stress, his eating is the first thing to be affected. The only way i can then increase his diet, is by decreasing the stress.

Seems your dd is a 'biege' food girl, like ds, you could try focussing on other 'biege' foods, she mind find these more acceptable.

[TaggieCampbellBlack]

She is a bit tense having fallen out with a friend. Her 'normal' tummy aches have been worse thd last few days.

I'll attempt some hiding in bread and cake but rwally not holding out much hope.

[TaggieCampbellBlack]

No milk.
No icecream.
No smoothies (i have a beautiful hardly used smoothie maker if anyone wants it)
No yogurts. But might try those alpro chocolate or vanilla ones again.

No chocolate!!!!!

No vitamins (this is the dd who recently ended up having massive painful antibiotic injections because she couldn't take the pills)

I will try getting her to make something with a vegetable in. Like cake with spinach.

Nut. Haven't tried nuts for a while.

[TaggieCampbellBlack]

Will get some huumus. She used to like that. And a selection of crackers.

[TaggieCampbellBlack]

Adding oat bran to the list.

No sorbet. No jelly.

She has just announced she'll have chicken for dinner. Phew. Hope it goes in.

[BeeMom]

For vitamins, can you get the children's gummy bear vitamins? Will she eat them if she thinks they are sweets? Will she eat sweets at all? (My DCs wont - neither have ever liked sweets much.

I wish I had sage advice, but it seems like most of the best ideas have already been shared. Bee is not one I can compare to, as her nutrition comes from her IV line since her intestines have failed from her disease progression, DS was a terrible eater for years, but now, at 14, he eats a broad, healthy and varied diet.

Sadly, it took us the better part of 10 years to get here...

[ouryve]

Has this been for a while or has it just come on?

I wouldn't take the egg whites out of cake - they're full of protein. Adding an extra yolk would definitely be a good idea, though, since that's where all the other nutrients are.

If you do make your own bread, you can replace some of the water with milk. White bread flour has to have calcium and iron added to it, so it's not entirely empty calories. Oil added to the dough improves the texture and adds vitamin E.

They might seem horrendous as an everyday thing for most people, but does she like those breakfast biscuits, such as Belvita and Nutrigrain? They're fortified, so will help get some nutrition into her.

And hopefully the funny tastes are down to coming down with a cold or a bit of a bug and won't last.

[TaggieCampbellBlack]

She's never eaten much of anything but every now and then she suddenly stops for some unknown reason.
Maybe a cold? (hopeful?)

[TaggieCampbellBlack]

And thanks for excellent suggestions. Will get her to make her own bread and cake (with egg and milk etc).