Boy cannot live by fried rice and 'pizza hut' alone.

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For nearly the past month all my son is happily eating is vegetable fried rice (occasionally with sauce on) and make your own salad bar - as he calls it Pizza Hut - with crispy bacon bits.

He's been picky-ish no mushrooms, funny with tomatoes etc but nothing like this. All I have found that works is if we play restaurant where I set the table with metal rice bowls and put a napkin over him and theatrically wait on him.

I also have to sing Bella Notte to him like Lady and the Tramp, he's stone deaf so God knows how this adds to the ambience, but if I just sign and refuse to sing it's game over, to be fair the deafness is most likely on his side because I've the voice of an pained cat.

Please God someone give me some suggestions before I buy a violin to serenade him.

We've tried all the family at the table.
We've tried just him at the table.
We've tried getting him to help.
We've tried letting him leave it - but he didn't eat for a full day.
We've tried eating in front of the telly.
We've tried picnic in the garden.

He just isn't interested in food at all and I'm getting a bit worried because I can't sustain bella notte until he's sixteen.

Oh God I feel your pain, I have a fussy eater, deaf DC (I realise this is somewhat of a niche child on MN!) Does your DC have enough hearing to tell if you're actually singing or not? Although you'd probably feel really guilty if you mouthed the words and they believed you were singing

We sign too, so as well as the not bloody eating anything and pushing stuff round the plate, meals took ages if we "talked" over dinner If it's any comfort, mine is older now, still very fussy but eats giant quantities of what they do eat. As this includes bananas and they seem to have lots of energy I have become resigned to it.

Interestingly, the repeating of things they like to watch was a common theme (mine didn't include watching me singing Bella Notte thank fuck ) throughout the whole of childhood but I think this helped them to learn. I didn't feel guilty about TV as I thought the subtitles were helpful

Veg fried rice and salad bar seem pretty good to me, I would take that as a win!