DS9 and fruit and veg

[mincepietwentytwo]

Trying to get fruit and veg into DS9.

Will eat - steamed broccoli, carrots and cauliflower (getting boring)

Won’t eat - fruit (unless a smoothie with no bits), cucumber, lettuce, tomato, sweetcorn, peas, runner beans, sweet potato, parsnips, sometimes raisins but no other dried fruit.

Basically only 3 soft veg. Won’t eat anything with a skin.

He will eat hidden veg in pasta sauce so do that 3 times a week.

Is it getting boring for you, or him? Honestly broccoli is fantastic and trumps most other veg anyway imo.

Honestly the food I like I can eat very frequently.

If you are worried get him multivitamins.

That sounds fine?! His palate will probably develop into liking more complex stuff as he gets older. In the meantime I’d just give him a multivitamin and not worry about it.

Thanks. It’s great he eats those 3!

Have one with massively restricted eating and also have 3 veg I cycle round but dietician has said it's fine and not to worry - I would make sure you are alternating them so he doesn't get bored and at least you have the pasta sauce option. What about raw carrot? Can you try to slowly expand from the ones he likes to others or other formats of the ones he likes?

Not quite hitting his 5 a day though.

Typical day:

Breakfast - glass of fruit juice (with toast/cereal/pancakes etc)

No fruit or veg at morning snack - cereal bar etc

No fruit or veg in school lunchbox as he doesn't eat salad type veg

Perhaps a smoothie after school

Dinner - steamed carrots and broccoli with his main

Doing well though. He ate some raw carrot today.

What else have you tried in various forms?
Aubergine/Courgette/Squashes
Peppers
Beetroot
Celeriac
Radish
Swede
Turnip
Onions
Bean sprouts
Spinach
rocket
Watercress
Coconut
Pineapple
Plums, peaches, apricots
grapes

Theres many more

Dont forget beans of all types and lentils

Avocado

Would he eat stewed apple in porridge in the morning for example

If he's drinking fruit juice then he like fruit unless you mean squash and not OJ

It’s the texture. He will not eat anything with a skin on.

He will drink a smoothie but not if there’s any pith or bits in it.

He tried some butternut squash and didn’t like it.

He likes raisins but won’t try any other dried fruit.

I peel an apple for him but he doesn’t take it every time. I could try more of that list and take the skin off.

I do a hidden veg pasta sauce with and he loves that.

Smoothie bowl for breakfast maybe?
Also try blending hidden veg into his smoothie

Have or tried apple crisps? They are dry and crunchy? Would he eat any kind of soup blended smooth? If you have a stick blender you can make a veg packed curry sauce that's smooth.

Would he eat pesto pasta? You can whizz spinach into pesto really well.

Stewed or mashed fruit in yogurt or frozen yogurt?

Banana pancakes (just banana, egg and a little but of flour)?

It seems ok already, do you hide fruit and veg in other stuff? From your list you could hide it in the pancakes and cereal/oat bars. Would he eat egg bites for breakfast and/or lunch - you could get onions & spinach into those, disguised with cheese. You could send him to school with hot food in a flask if he's better with things like soup, pasta etc?

Yes he likes fruit juice. He used to eat watermelon slices but refuses them now.

He likes:
Mushrooms
Cauliflower
Baby sweetcorn
Broccoli
Carrots
Onion in sauces
Lentils hidden in pasta sauce
Baked beans

Won't eat:
Stewed/tinned fruit
Any salad leaf
Cucumber
Peppers
Grapes, plums, peaches, apricots - all because of the skin
Swede or any squash type veg
Any fruit added to porridge

The things he likes aren't really portable for a packed lunch unless I try pasta in one of those flasks but then as he likes pasta for tea, he'll be eating lots of it. That's ok I suppose. I can only try and get fruit in a smoothie in the mornings and rotate the veg at tea time.