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Fussy eaters

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RedRobin100 · 28/05/2023 07:50

How the f*%# do you fill a child that won’t eat anything?!

OP posts:
AtleastitsnotMonday · 28/05/2023 08:46

If they literally won't eat anything you take them to see a dr. If what you mean is they will eat a very limited number of foods then you do the standard present them with a plate of food I one or two known, safe, liked foods and whatever else you would like them to eat. Try and remain calm, make no comment on the food or what they have eaten.

Leave snacks out whilst they are engaged in activity and distracted.
Have fun with food, cook together, shop, together.

lljkk · 28/05/2023 09:35

tbh, when MNers who make OP's claim are asked for specifics, they usually come up with a long list of foods their child does eat. Only not as long a list as PP would like...

A local lad (he's 19yo now, I saw him on a bike ride with his mum recently) got to his teen years eating precisely & only 5 foods: 2 reasonably healthy drinks, one type of crisps, 2 types of sweet. He probably still consumes only these. And water. I think.

He was always the nicest lad, sensible, sporty & his mum the most laid back person I met, but he wasn't budging & she wasn't going to lose her mind over it. Far from wasting away, He tended towards being pudgy.

Tell us how old your child is, & what they actually ate at least once this week, OP. My own fussy eater has finally pretty much outgrown his fussiness. It took being a ravenous sporty teenage boy to get him there, though.

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