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).

Ds2's diet worries me nt so much because of its content, which isnt bad, but because his desire for crunchy, brown foods means that most of it is fried or roasted.

He will eat most veg, if processed and made into cakes with potato, which are then fried.
Chips, roast potatoes, mash if browned on top
fish cakes, chicken cakes, fish fingers, home made nuggets ( coated with polenta as he is on gf/cf diet.)
shepherds pie is the only hot non fried food he eats, but he often leaves the meat.
sausages

I have started making the chicken / sausagemeat cakes with quinoa or brown rice - he will eat them, but wouldnt look at rice in its normal boiled form.

Lunches are very limited - gf sandwich with hummus, crisps, banana, grapes EVERY DAY.

Oh and he will steal salt from the pot when no-one is looking. Also sweets, flavoured crisps....all the stuff he isnt allowed. Have had some very interesting poo experiences on holiday as a result .....

never tried it, but have seen an oil/water spray mentioned in cookbooks, for frying, so if you used a mixture of olive oil and water for trying/roasting then at least that's avoiding saturated fat as far as possible, sphil.

oh and my DS loves salt as well. Mind you DH will eat salt and pepper directly from shakers as well

leoni my ds is severally autistic i was just suggesting tried and tested method and not trying to be smug! my dd1 didn't eat solids until she was 3 so i know how hard it can be which was the purpose of the thread to share suggestions because majority of time we parents of asd children do notice similarities in our children. i guess your tired of people giving you suggestions all we can do is try our best! you never know when the change may occur.

hollysman i still give my ds growing up milk but now he seems to be weaning himself of the milk not to keen well its about time he is 4! and he only has ready made bottles he will not drink powder how old is your dc

Its strange....my nt ds2 has a very limited diet too, although I think its just the normal getting to age 2 and then deciding they arent going to eat anything they have previously eaten and enjoyed!!!!

Ds2 will eat fruit and veg unlike ds1 but doesnt eat meat or fish now...cant get vitamins into him either! Am considerng protein powder tbh....anyone had any experience????

I think issues with food is one of the few issues that bring parents of sn and nt dc together!!!!

nadia77 my little girl is 3 and a half, she does have the powder but only in bottles still. Thank goodness the phase she went through of not cleaning teeth has passed!

becaroo my ds is vegetarian i'm giving vitamins but i'm going to gp hopefully next week to ask if i can have full blood test done for ds to see what he is lacking. i do give ds dall with rice so some protein what about eggs?

hollysman my son still drinks it in bottle and brushing his teeth is nightmare although now its getting better

My ds cant stand anything crunchy or crispy. He hates milk and potatoes in any form-will very occasionally have chips. He likes -bananas,weetabix/ricekrispies[dry],ham,sausages,chicken nuggets,bread,rolls,pizza,salad,crisps,apples,grapes,yoghurts,cakes,biscuits,
sweets,fish fingers,spag bol (without pasta,)baked beans,fruit juices,. Thats it i think .Except he ADORES SALT and will even lick it off the plate.

This salt thing is odd - I met a teacher of autistic children in the swimming pool yesterday (she spotted DS2 within about 2 micro-seconds ) - and struck up conversation. She was saying that many of the teenagers she teaches crave salt and even drink seawater. Ds2 licks his skin when he's been in the sea, though hasnt got round to drinking it yet thank God!

TC - I always cook in olive oil, but the water/oil spray is a good idea - thanks.

DS2 loves salt. I suspect that's why he started to eat the sand straight off the beach, the other week!

I'm wondering if its a sensory issue - salty foods are sense-arousing arent they? Or whether some children have a salt deficiency that they're making up for. DS2 would eat crisps all day if I let him.

Yeah, I think a lot of the food issues are sensory based. Nowhere much more sensitive than your mouth!

Salt's one of those flavours that's strong tasting without having a strong, offputting smell to go with it. He seems to like sour flavours, too, a lot more than sweet. He'll occasionally wolf down a piece of sharp, flavourful apple, but will reject it outright if it's a bland one (and also if it doesn't have a red skin and if it's cut into any shape other than a wedge!)

Though I'll add that he didn't touch apples at all, ever, for a year after he shoved a piece of rather spicy radish into his mouth, a couple of years ago . His raw apple eating days are few and far between, as it is.

Well amazingly enough Ds2 has just eaten a piece of uncoated turkey breast! I am overjoyed! it would be so good if he would eat 'ordinary' chicken or turkey - would make lunches and eating out much easier.

Whoohoo!

DS1 actually ate the best part of a sainsburys nut cutlet for his dinner. He didn't even pick out all of the vegetables!!! (just a lot of them, since he went rooting around for the bits of nut to eat at first, before shoving the rest in!)

wow thats great