DS has ASD in a mainstream primary with an EHCP and is due to go on an overnight school camping trip in a few days time. We had a parents meeting about the trip today and we’re shown the menus that the children will get while at the camp. Unfortunately my DS has a very restricted diet of what he will tolerate eat - it’s more than food faddiness: he will get upset to the point of vomiting/ and has almost fainted on occasion when he’s pressured to try a food he doesn’t like. The alternative is he will go hungry and refuse to eat.. I don’t know if he would back down eventually and it seems cruel to test this out but I expect given the seriousness of his reaction he would not.
The menu does not have one thing on it that he will eat but we were told that under no circumstances can we provide alternative food for our children and that ‘all children will eat something when they are with their peers and hungry enough’. It would be absolutely wonderful if this was the case and my son magically tried something new on the trip BUT I know him and this has never happened before: never on a play date, never at a birthday party, never when eating with friends. I’m feeling anxious as his mood is really affected by hunger and he can have (understandable) meltdowns when he is starving. I want to talk to the school privately tomorrow about making an excel and allowing him to take a few foods he will eat with him but wanted reassurance I’m not being a snowflake. The foods would be things like sliced bread, microwave pasta with no sauce and fruit.