SEN sensory aversions, what does your child eat in a day?

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Just curious as to what everyone’s children eat in a day if they struggle with sensory issues / eating disorders. Really trying to not feel the mom guilt of the same junk my DC eats on a day to day basis and could do with a reminder I’m not alone :(

You definitely are not alone. My son is 3 and half. ( autistic) He will only eat tomatoe and herb pasta for main meal. He aims more for savoury snacks. I feel the mum guilt every dinner time! He ate so well up to around 1 and half. Fruits and veggies Then it all stopped. I just hope one day I can offer alternative meals that he will actually try!!

Ramen... DD lives on noodles. We now just buy them in bulk.

Occasionally she might have chicken nuggets and waffles instead.

Other things she will eat sometimes - avocado, sushi, kimchi, sweetcorn.

She's hated most food all her life (now 14), but seems to be pretty healthy despite her bizarre diet.

You are not alone. Dd11 (asd) eats only the same foods day in day out. A variation on beige frozen chicken, frozen chips, beans and Coleslaw. And enough mangoes to bankrupt me. It's so bad she herself has even asked if she can have something else. We go round the houses discussing the million other things she could have (and I cook for dh and the other dcs) and she lands back at the same choice

We have had issues since DD was tiny - ended up referred to the Evelina in London when she was 2.5 over it as she would not eat at all and was B12 deficient and iron deficient.

They tried giving me vitamin powders 'to add to her food'... I had to explain that this was part of why we were there, there was not really any food to add things to!

They did advise me that ketchup is definitely a vegetable, and to feed her high calorie stuff as much as possible - if all she wanted was crisps and chocolate biscuits then at least she was putting something in her mouth and swallowing it!

They also told me not to stop breastfeeding - I reckoned I was going to end up in documentaries, but she finally gave up at 3.5 years.

She has bloods checked relatively regularly and is surprisingly healthy given her diet.

@FairyTaleOfDudley oh god, the trauma over new things drives me insane. And even if I get her to try something and she decides she likes it, it will still be rejected if I propose it for a meal in the future. I now cook for DH and myself, she can have what we are having - or cook for herself, but I am not running a restaurant!