To fear DC may get Scurvy?

[TopsyTurvyScurvyLurgy]

I'm only slightly kidding here.

DC2 will refuse to eat any fruit or vegetables at all. It's causing me a huge amount of stress, and I've tried everything. DC happily ate everything until around 2, and then just stopped
My other DC eat a wide range, so I'm not sure what's gone wrong.

Nothing will work - not blending / pureeing / mincing. Not soups or smoothies or sauces. Not bribing, or ignoring, or insisting.
We've read upteen books, visited the doctor, asked SENCO for advice.
I think they don't understand the issue, or think I'm exaggerating.

DC looks really run down, and is quite pale and skinny.

If anyone has any serious advice, or anything that will work, please share this with me!
They are in upper primary by the way,

I wasn't expecting so many replies, I see loads of helpful advice, thank you

I make mango or banana ice cream by blending frozen versions of this.

I sometimes serve veg first as a meal i itself

Avocado and banana blended can be called green ice cream...

I am also strict and basically do no dessert and no tv unless veggies are eaten. Sometimes the portions are very small so as not to overwhelm

I have also explained that food like eggs or veg make our hair shiny and grow and our skin bright. Seems to work....

I've had scurvy. True story. Didn't eat anything while working two jobs and at uni but my intake for 4 months was half a bottle of sherry and 20 Marlboro lights a day.

Try making your own chicken nuggets. But add some cauliflower inside as well. Same colour. Then slowly add in other veg and I mean slowly like a tiny tiny bit. Then add more. Eventually they will be eating them. I used to call them rainbow nuggets.

Have u tried sweet potato? It is very sweet.

I used to nanny a child with food problems. I used to take their mind off the food in front of them but reading a book. And I mean over exaggerating voice. Funny books that made them laugh. They didn’t even see what was on their plate.

It’s a case of moving things really slowly. And I mean really slowly. Add some veg to tomato ketchup to the bottle.

My 55 year DP's mother made this a huge battle ground consequently he is still very limited in what he eats. He will drink juice, peppers, mushrooms, baked beans and passatta. If stir fried till very, very soft he will also eat Asian vegetables.
He will eat potatoes in most forms now. He didn't eat pasta till he was 20 and rice till he lived in the Far East at 25.
He travels the world for work managing to eat at corporate events everywhere and hasn't died of scurvy. In fact was British Boys and British junior champions in his sport.
He grows the rest of us amazing veg, just doesn't eat it.

I have a similar child with dd. We've tried everything - grow it, cook it, play with it, give it voices, playing siblings off each other (ds loves veg), bribery, threats, no alternative. None of it works. She can detect veg a mile off and doesn't like tomato ketchup either. Thankfully she will eat some fruits, texture dependent. I won't need to worry about her being pressured into doing things when she's older at least!

My son with ASD really struggles with family meals and will even violently reject food he likes let alone anything new or suspicious. If he is obviously stressed or I want him to try something new I let him eat alone in front of the TV as he is far more likely to cope without the added stresses (to him) of a sit down family meal. Often doesn't work but sometimes helps.

I worked in a boarding school with a child with massive resistance to veg. Whenever we had dishes with veg in (rather than on the side) we would say to him just to pick out the bits he liked (the meat) no pressure to eat anything else. Over 5 years he relaxed more and more, going from scraping every last spec of sauce off to only picking out mushrooms in the end. It was an incredibly slow process but we got there in the end. I can’t tell you how pleased his parents were the first time they went to a restaurant and tried to order him a burger with no salad, relish etc and he told them to chill, it was fine as it came, he’d handle it. Slowly slowly sometimes is the only way.
Also, ignore those saying it’s to do with parenting, not holding your ground, or giving in too easily. They have clearly never encountered properly fussy children.

Just remembered another thing I found helpful when my daughter refused certain foods. I used to say that she wasn’t allowed to say she doesn’t like something in the plate if she hadn’t had a taste, but that if she put it in her mouth and didn’t like it, she was allowed to spit it into a napkin. Taking the pressure off in that way meant she started popping things into her mouth and actually discovered she liked some of them.

I would go with lots of pasta sauces, pasta bakes & cook veg into the sauce & use a hand blender to blitz all evidence of the veg out Fruity custard would work too. Mix purée fruit like apple in.

How old is he? My Dd is very fussy but the school have been very big on teaching healthy eating so she will eat fruit and veg even though her overall diet is not great. Maybe try "fun" fruit like blueberries on pancakes. If you made fruit kebabs together would he try it even if you added marshmallows or a choc yoghurt to dip them in? My Dd will eat most fruit but will only eat cucumber, cherry toms and carrots which is enough for me. I think just focus on finding 1 or 2 fruit/veg he likes and go from there.