ds1 is eating.........

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baked beans, mashed potato, meatballs, fishfingers (gluten free), chicken nuggets (gf of course), cornflakes with milk......

For the last 4 years he has eaten gf pizza (cheese and tomato), gf bread and butter, buckwheat pancakes and jam, crisps and biscuits.

The credit belongs to school really.

The started by offering him crisp sandwiches- so two crisps with a tiny bit of baked bean inside and extended from there. Success varies still each day, and I wouldn't say he was definitely going to carry on as he is, but some days he will eat baked beans and mashed potato from a spoon feeding himself!! Other days he still needs the crisp sandwiches. I get him to eat fishfingers by telling him to have a bit and then he gets a 1/4 of one chocolate button. He now eats about a 1/4 of the fishfinger before demanding the button.

DS1 honestly had one of the most self restricted diets I had come across- so I hope this is encouraging for other with ASD food nightmares, and perhaps gives some idea. I just love his school!

Fishfingers!!!! Fab news.

Really pleased for you JJ and thanks for sharing that news with us it gives mums of ASD children hope that things CAN change

Kind of both MB. He was kept in class 1 when others his age went up in September because he had only had 2 terms in there (the others had had up to 3 years). He does tower above his classmates a bit now, so it is time to go. His class 1 teacher has been excellent though.

Goosey- I hope you realise that I expect you to feed him baked beans and mashed potato every time he goes to you Maybe he'll end up easier to feed than gagabucket ds3 (who incidentally has been munching through the remains of ds1's pizza and waffles this week on the sly- so I don't know why he's gagging on avocado (does it at home as well ).

Brill news, know what you mean about limited diet my DS is the same, but he does have school dinners and he eats garlic bread and jacket potatoes at school, but not at home! he made scones at school on thursday and i went in to help, he read the instructions and i had altered it a little, i ended it with eat a scone, and he did, funny isn't it DS eats very few things yet his twin sisters eat anything at all, thats autism

He used to eat everything and anything, and in the space of a few weeks went to bread and cheerios. Sinderland test resuted in gluten free bread and nothing else then occasional foods added and lost. This is the biggst variety he has eaten since 2, and he is much more willing to have a bite of something (and often he will then accept it). Shudders when apples go near him, although he spent 6 months aged 4 eating 3 a day!!!!