Until tonight I didn't realise just how bad this was. He's never been one for trying new foods and always makes a fuss if he has anything different from the usual on his plate. I just couldn't handle it at meal times and took the lazy, easy-at-the-time option of just giving chicken nuggets & chips or similar at meal times. I've very gradually been able to get him to eat an incredibly small roast dinner. But I am one of the least patient people I know so have just not had the patience to deal with it every single night. Now tonight comes and we go to his junior school open evening. They have there a selection of the school meals as they do not just go along with the generic menu set by hte council, they do their own, so I went over to the front to try some with the boys. ds1 said he didn't want to go but I took him down, by the time we reached the front of the hall he was screaming, I mean real, full on, proper screams. By the time we got to the table he was hysterical, I wanted him to come close to the table so he could see what they do but he started pulling away from me so much that I lost my grip and he landed on the floor. Seriously, you'd have thought I was trying to force him into a pit of very hungry crocodiles the way he was behaving. I picked out a few bits but he refused point blank to try them, really getting proper scared over it. They even had samples of puddings on the table including chocolate cake. I tried to get him to have some of this but even that he shrunk away from. I tried telling him it was nice and would he like a small bite but he said 'I don't know what htat white stuff is'...it was bloody icing sugar ffs. Seriously I don't know what to do. How can a child be that scared of food?