to force feed DD vegetables.

[EccentricaGallumbits]

She hasn't eaten vegetables or fruit in any way, shape or form since she was 2.

On the lunchtime news there was a bit about 5 a day not being enough to protect you from cancer or heart disease.

DD went off on one, blaming me for the fact that 'she is going to die by the time she is 25'

It is all my fault apparantly.

She's still going on about it now.

would it be U of me to only feed her vegetables forever?

I think you need to make a colour coded vegetable chart.

Then invite another kid over and make one for them too

i gave up on colour coded bollocks after the first 3 years of trying.

things i have also tried

disguising
hiding
rewards
peer pressure
ridicule
stroking
stickers
bribery
threats
beating

Eccentrica - DS1 was the same. I read Toddler Taming and that reassured me, because (and I paraphrase) - Dr Green said they don't need to eat veg if they are eating fruit, and they don't need to eat fruit if they are having fruit juice (or something). He did eat raisins but they are bad for your teeth so that doesn't count.

At 2, all DS1 ate was Weetabix, toast , and he drank orange and apple juice. I then moved him on to cut- up, peeled apples, and raw carrots - he preferred raw veg to cooked. So you could try that.

how old is your DD?

my DSD is 12, she wants to lose weight and she knows she should eat healthier, but she still won't. Hmmmph.

If you are interested, I am considering writing a book, entitled :

"DS1 and Me : My Travails With Food"

Oh, hang on. I thought she was 2

I have no ideas. Try beating again

Do you give her vitamin suppliments?

Tell her she can reverse the damage if she starts eating them now and if she wants to eat veg then she's welcome to help herself to the ones in the fridge.
Then go and have a glass of wine with some ear plugs in.

won't take vitamins - I know I tried them all. every single different sort.

It's still my fault though.

I think the research is saying that it only makes a small amount of difference eating 5 portions rather than you need to eat more.

It is always our fault. Starting with having these blasted darling children in the first place.

How old is your DD? If young enough, just keep on trying... you can wear them down eventually!

My DD2 does not like egg. Yet every week for the past two years, she has moaned and complained about me giving her egg. Yet every week, without fail, I put a couple of spoonfuls of scrambled egg on her plate with the rest of the salad. She moans, I say eat one mouthful and so it continues. She eats the one mouthful and leaves the rest. No fights, no complaining, she knows the deal - minimum of one mouthful of everything that is on her plate. But recently (after two years of complaining), she actually ate more than one mouthful of egg and did so without complaining. She now even eats the yellow part of a part boiled egg (providing it is still liquid!). It has taken me 2 1/2 years to get there, but I have!!

We do the same with all the foods the DDs don't like. Over time, they do now both eat onion, pepper, parsnip, leeks and so on... They don't always like them, but the one mouthful rule seems to help us avoid fights, whilst in the (very) long term, they do eventually accept the foods we offer!

Well find something that motivates her and start making her eat veg from today. Start with one type and make her eat it every day for a week. Then move on to the next one. You must win the battle! Before she's a teenager and really won't comply!

That doesn't make sense - she moans about me putting egg on her plate, but she will eat the one mouthful without moaning!

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10 years of puuting fruit in her lunchbox - only to have it brought home squished and untouched. 10 years of searving up vegetables on her plate (at the side of but never touching her marmite sandwich).

10 sodding years of bloody bollocking trying to make the hideous difficult stroppy mare eat bloody vitamins and minerals

AND IT'S STILL MY BLOODY FAULT!

riven your ds sounds very like dd, whose diet is mainly beige foods, interspersed with a red blob of ketchup!!

Five fruit and veg a day does not significantly reduce cancer risk: research

It is saying eating your 5 a day does not really make a difference in preventing cancer - not smoking and being a healthy weight was more important

DD only eats beige.
bread, biscuits, marmite, chicken, chips, crisps.
with Ketchup.

WTF is all that about?

have threatened her with freaky eaters.

so she won't get cancer but may get scurvey? will still be my fault.

bloss, I respectfully disagree - my aforementioned DSD knows perfectly well about a healthy diet, but her mum should still take some responsibility. at least try. which unlike Eccentrica, she doesn't. At All.

not even vegetables within a blended soup?

or corn on the cob?

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