what does your asd dc eat

[nadia77]

I?ve been reading all these threads about our asd children some are different very different some are so similar so food for thought just wondering what food is trending? Like my ds give him chips any time of the day he will eat it! But recently his has larger variety pasta, curry, pizza, loves walkers cheese and onion crisps he has two packs at a time he's only 4! His gone off chocolates he still has buttons but gone of kinder egg! before it used to be pasta everyday or tantrums if he doesn?t get it but now he seems to be trying different food which is good news for me!, so i don?t have to cook three meals a day(dp non veg, me and dd veg, extra meal for ds).

DS hasn't got the full dx, just traits...

veg - um tomato ketchup? carrot cake? the tomato sauce tinned pasta comes with.

fruit - apples, bananas, tangerines sometimes, the odd grape, the odd blueberry, the odd piece of melon

legumes - sometimes baked beans. sometimes cashew nuts. humous.

dairy - milk, loves cream, yoghurts if completely smooth. loves soft cheese - philadelphia. will sometimes eat grated cheese. likes ice cream. seems to be OK for ice cream to have bits in...

meat - chicken, as long as it's breaded or comes in v small chunks. quorn sausages. the odd meat sausage. the odd burger, no salad of course.

fish - v keen on fish fingers atm. also keen on tinned tuna.

starch - pizza (but only plain cheese and tomato). pasta. will eat pasta with tomato sauce when out. loves white bread. eats wholemeal under duress. breakfast cereals without milk, like weetos or honey loops. chips - preferably oven. yorkshire puddings. skinned boiled potatoes under duress. plain boiled white rice - v handy for thai/indian/chinese restaurants as he won't touch the curry!

snacks - some chocolate bars. practically every sweet invented . most flavours of walkers/mccoys crisps. cereal bars.

no dx yet for DD (3.5) but loads of traits as well.

her eating is great. can't think of anything she will not eat . she has very healthy appetite though - loves fruit, veg, pulses, fish, chicken, meat... but also very, very keen on chocolate (must be genetic :o ). she also enjoys the very occasional fast food. she also has a love if really hot and spicy food.
the same with drinks. she will have milk, water, juice, tea, loves coffee (I have to make sure I don't leave my unfinished coffee on the table otherwise she will drink it).

I always say that she is difficult in so many respects but the one that is no trouble at all is her eating.

most cereal, but mainly weetabix and bran flakes
toast/bread small amount or no butter, with jam, honey or choc spread.
crumpets, pancakes
cheese, jam, choc spread or tuna sandwiches
marks and spencer pizza (cheese and tomato)
steamed cod, tuna or salmon (plain)
plain chicken, beef, pork (no sausages, bacon or ham)
plain boiled rice
pasta with melted cheese on top or my dolmio.
yoghurt (no bits)
cheese
cucumber (nothing else green)
yorkshire pudding
garlic bread
spag bol (no veg in sight)
baked beans
heinz tomato soup
strawberries, apples, pears, bananas, raisins (no oranges)
no potatoes, chips, crisps (except for skips and wotsits).
Any ice-cream, cake or biscuit!

I was worried about DD's diet, but compared to some she seems to be doing ok. She's 8 and diagnosed with ASD/Aspergers and ADHD.

Dried shreddies for breakfast or buttered toasted fruit bread.

Peanut butter roll for lunch.

Fromage fraise.

Raisins

Pizza

pasta now without sauce or cheese.

We use to have a better diet but fruit and veg seem completely off the menu now.

Oh and lettuce but it must be hearts of romaine and nice and crisp. :)

Once we have excluded all the things he is allergic to ( eggs nuts fish sesame)
most things if they are NOT spicy as the tingling feeling you get on your tongue from chilli or pepper is the same as he gets when an allergic reaction is starting.
Oh and the only fruit he will eat is grapes.

Ds1 has a very similar diet to his brother and I honestly don't think his diet is affected by his ASD at all. My diet as a child was so restricted itnearly landed me in hospital, I only ate plain white crust free bread with a thin spread of tomato ketchup. That's it.

Neither of my children will eat spicy food, I don't know many British origin children who will though, I don't think it's abnormal.

Neither of them will eat tomatoes, mushrooms, peppers, or onions, but both will eat garlic and a little black pepper.

Both will eatall meat, cooked however (skin on/off, bone in/out)
Ds2 (not ASD) won't eat chicken nuggets, even the nice ones
Neither of them like jumbled up food, food with 'bits'.

ready brek
peanut butter on toast
croisant
he eats one of these for a few months then changes to the other
chicken(fresh real chicken) nuggets
fresh chicken skin off (gone off this at moment)
billy bear,
chocolate (just milk choc no sweets with choc on)
fresh orange
high juice orange
coke
choc muffins
choc fingers/aero choc bisc/yorkie choc bisc
bacon (but just gone off this)
ready salted pringles

no fruit or veg no bread no variations and will gag if i give him anything else or throw a wobbly

school are working on helping he has ate a small bit of apple with his teacher , he got worse after 2 when we started noticing "differences" about him and behaviour changes , before that as a baby when weened he ate anything till the fussyness really got going by 3 IYSWIM, when he began stopping eating and would rather go without and starve than eat what used to be favorites
I give multivitamins the soft and chewy bassetts orange ones (the only ones he will take)

Ready-brek seems to be a common theme, might give that a try.

DS always adores pop-up books with a light cardboard texture.

I've recommended this book a couple of times before and will do again.

As one to read not for your child to eat I hasten to add

No magic solutions but by God it is very affirming. I felt so much better after reading it.

omgg its my son shes talking about i just clicked on your link and then the book to look inside and i might have writen it myself , im going to order it now thank you InfestationofLannisters

That is so nice to know drivemecrazy63. It made me feel so much better. Hope you do too

Infestation - yes, it's not got any magic solutions, but it's written by someone who really "get's it", sort of like MN sn board in a book .

Out of interest, how much is it people's reactions to the limited diet that stresses you out, more than the limited diet itself?

DS aged 3.10 will eat

cereal (dry and with milk) most types also porridge

Bread, toast, crumpets, NO SANDWICHES !
(bread is eaten butter side down)

Digestive, malted milk, rich tea

Crisps, mini cheese biscuits

Chicken Nuggets (only with batter)

Sausages

Fish Fingers

Pasta twists (no sauce)

Chips

Rice pudding, jelly, fromage frais / yoghurt

apples / grapes / melon / oranges / bananas / pears / raisins / dried apricots / raw red & yellow peppers / cucumber / carrots / gherkins

Sometimes :-

Mashed potato / peas / sweetcorn / baked beans

Chaos as time went on it did become more about people's reactions to the diet especially the in-laws who only see DS two or three times a year, and people in restaurants of course.

We do go out a lot but I got some cards from the NAS saying, "this chid has autism and may behave unusually - thank you for understanding" which have proved useful. Especially if you laminate them before throwing passing them sharp-cornered at the worst of the tutters

Now I'm a bit "meh". I was saying to a mate the other day who also has an autistic child that if DS wanted McDonalds for breakfast, lunch and dinner I'd be over the moon

No fruit or veg of any description,
Breakfast great, ready brek, and most other cereals, american style pancakes, cheese on toast.

Plain pasta no sauce just grated cheese
supernoodles (bacon only)
Bacon (not one bit of fat must be on it)
Sausages but got to be a certain kind.
Chips (not too fat)
chicken nuggets
chicken in white sauce (out of a tin, homemade he will refuse)
tinned spaghetti
macaroni cheese prefers tinned horrible stuff but will eat homemade sometimes.
cheese + spread cheese
breadsticks
pepperami
crisp but never cheese & onion, he will not stay in the same room as somebody eating them.

infestation - oh yes, I would love for DS to have a gregg's sausage roll. and it was a happy moment when DS would eat something other than chips at McDs!

lol at Greggs sausage roll. I'd be very proud and happy too.

DS used to eat McD's fries (only if in the car, only if crisply done and a certain length, only with the pointy ends bitten off and then only if the moon was in the seventh house and Jupiter aligned with Mars) but he won't touch them for some reason now

my ds has no dx yet hes too young, he has to have everything seperate on his plate, if he has a stew you have to portion his veg to one side ect but his diet at the moment is:

cereals he lived off weetabix or ready brek for a long time but he has started having cornflakes occasionally he would have eggs sometimes but lately he doesn't want to know

fruit - has to be green, green apples, green grapes, green pears, will eat bananas but i must peel them he wont hold it in it's peel.

veg - carrots, sweetcorn, peas, potatoes he is funny with sometimes eats them, chips he tends to chew them and spit them out unless they are fries. he refuses all salad stuff

he loves plain pasta, would eat it forever, he loves chocolate, crisps, biscuits and bread, sandwiches must have the crusts on and have jam in them of any sort, he likes crackers/bread sticks

dairy - absolutely hates it, only has milk on cereal and he will occasionally have a fromage fraies, wont even eat anything remotely cheesey

he use to eat anything you put in front of him x

Nodding at the upsidedown bread and butter. That's a DS2 trick - bread spread side down or pizza top down for inspection before he eats it. He then eats it by picking it apart. I sometimes wonder why i don't just put a jar of peanut butter and bag of bread in front of him, instead of going to the trouble to make something resembling a sandwich! Even fruit bread ends up as a pile of breadcrumbs, once he's picked out and eaten all the dried fruit (he's actually on a raisin ban at school because he'll tip the plate on the floor then eat the lot of left to his own devices, and the result of that is usually pretty explosive!)

You should see him with swiss roll or blueberry muffins - have to take the hosepipe to him afterwards!

DS2 will quite often refuse food when we're out and about that he'd normally eat at home.

Missed 3 things off my list that he's tried in the past week, mind. Sand (He was face down on Whitby beach shovelling it into his mouth, last week!), An elastic band (he seemed relieved when I fished it out) and some cement that had spilt into a puddle in our yard and dried after we had some building work done!

Dd1(7 with AS) will eat:
Pizza
Cheese
chips
fruit- berries and bananas
Bread (white)
Wraps (only with cheese)
Crisps
Chocolate (in any shape or form)
Jammy dodgers
Sausages (only one type, Asda)

Dd2 (5 with ASD) will eat anything apart from sweet corn, marsh mellow and oranges.

"Sand"

"Elastic bands"

I know, I know.

Why not eat a nice white slice of beautifully-cooked lemon-infused chicken breast when you would happily lick a slug?

oh forgot, my ds really struggles with sweets, hes only just got the hang of jellies and i still dont think he likes the feel of them in his mouth. absolutely freaks out at marshmallows, mushrooms, strawberries/berries or any sandwich that isn't jam.

another thing, he "drives" his food around, carrots, chocolate pasta ect he is obsessed with cars though oh and some stuff he picks apart and picks tiny bits off, other stuff he rams down his mouth like hes never been fed and gags so as to spit it all out