food

[dsrplus8]

aaargh! what a lovely start to the day, little darling dd4 wont eat again. am getting worried as shes too small /light.why does she do this? suddenly she wont eat anything i give her (except toast if its cut into small triangles, no chance if i forget and give her squares!)she wont eat if its the "wrong colour" or "wrong shape" or "something new" if the toaster breaks we are in trouble!!!!! ok . rant over,sorry , just had to let that out.....now breath....and count to twenty.....(fingers crossed ,she might eat snacks.....away to find some hula hoops!!!!!

Thank goodness for hula hoops!

KFC saves the day for us sometimes.

Yep KFC.....ds will ALWAYS eat beans and popcorn chicken!!

Im amazed DS1 doesn't have scruvy his diet is so bad - fotunately he likes vitamin pills!!!

Dd1 is only eating pizza at the momment, she won't eat anything to dry, to wet, with bits in it, with green stuff (hurbs), no veg and is even refussing Mc Donalds

Pizza again today

well its tea time for the kids now, today dd4 managed to eat toast, (drink fresh orange)& vitamins for breakfast, 2 chocolate fromage frais for lunch,(drinks milk)and is now slowly eating chips and mini sausage rolls,(well shes really just eating the pastry and leaving the "sausage"),didnt touch the fruit and crisps offered for snacks.shes different from the rest of the kids , with food they practically bite your hand off! going to make more toast now.....crumbs!

My DS3 (ASD) has lived off toast/bread & butter since he was 2 (now 6). He will eat strawberry fromage frais, chocolate/chocolate biscuits and (fortunately) orange Innocent smoothies and we can hide Minadex in orange juice. CDC have told us not to worry about his diet until he is 8 and we will begin to tackle it then. He has to have the same plate etc as well which can make life even more stressful.

He is also extremely thin but I am trying not to let it get to me

I have NO idea what it's all about. DD1 does this. She clearly has some rigid set of rules for what she will eat. God alone only knows what it is as the acceptable foodstuffs change, apparently randomly. I know it involves texture, and a dislike of cake/biscuit/ketchup//etc. I suspect it is ruled by some sort of complex algorithm involving planc's constant, the progression of prime numbers and integration of polar co-ordinates in 3 dimensions. No wonder she doesn't have much processing time to waste on the rest of us!

at r3d!!!

If you work out the formula let us know. I always seem to stock up of DS1s latest food the day before he goes off it NEVER to eat it again! Would love some advanced warning

Some days I thank commercialism for vitamin fortified breakfast cereals because DS2 sure likes his crunchy carbs. All he'd eaten for his dinner tonight was 2 smiley faces (not chips - whoohoo!) and the breadcrumbs off a chicken nugget. I was ready to give up when he pulled faces and pushed the bowl away when I served up fruit crumble and custard for pud, then he got brave and actually wolfed down a great big bowl of it, thank goodness!

nice one babyouryve ! .....now have a word with babydsr

My DD exactly the same eats the same things every day for weeks then suddenly goes of it and starts on something else bread, eggs and fish fingers at the moment, never has the same meal as the rest of the family always have to cook something different it is a worry isnt it.

dd4 is doing it again!! fooking fook fooks, when is this going to end. didnt eat her tea last night, didnt eat breakfast, not eating her snacks. i wish she was like her twin sometimes......have trouble stopping him eating, little budda that he is

ds is the same, he seems to just like beige food at the mo, argghh.

Can I ask a question about food (sorry hope not hijacking, just obviously all likeminded with food)

My other ds who we think is nt is getting very fussy, we have stopped making a fuss is Alf decides he doesnt like something (as banging heasd against brick wall) and I think other ds is picking up on this, do you think you can say to one you have to eat it, and not to the other, ifykwim.

How do you lot deal with it with more than one child, as meal times are like a war zone

do you think your NT child is sort of jelouse(spelling oops) of your SN child?,(the attention ) ive thought that about ds4 with dd4, not with food, with the nappies.(theyre twins), but it comes down to the same thing, one child wants the same as the others getting! still just goes to prove that our SN kids are getting treated the same way as NT siblings treat each other, makes me smile and annoyed/frustrated at the same time! i think we just have to persevere with the NT child and say its not allowed , (over and over and over ), eventually its gona click with the little darlings! lol

Good point dsrplus8.

It started because last night gave kids there tea, Alf wouldnt eat, so ds 2 wouldnt have this, dh ended up shouting at both of them, but I pointed out that Alf cant help it, once he decides he doesnt like anything (with no warning lol) he just wont eat it, and should we treat them the same way. Argghhh, its bloumming hard work isnt it, must be really hard for you with the twins.

There just seems to be no rhyme or reason with the food, I said it was beige but dont think it is all the time, as he will have a green apple (not a red one though).

hpw do you manage to keep giving beige food??? theres not a lot out there, apart from mash, and rice pudding and strangled eggs ???????

well beige/white/cream lol

Potaote waffles, are a fav, bread rolls, cereal, chips, chicken, yoghurt, (plain coloured) well actually beige, he likes the one with little, tennis balls, muller I think,
Wraps are another good one, porridge, baby bell cheese (wont eat orange cheese, or yellow), pasta with nothing on it. Ooh likes sausages tho.

He also doesnt like his food touching others and we have to have a plate with dividers, yet he will eat things out of his lunchbox.

Will only drink water, nothing else.

Strangely he will not eat mash, rice pudding or scrambled egg.

Its fun lol, apart from the falling the food is a big issue with us and he was under a hv (weighed etc) as he goes through phases of just not eating, dr and the hv said let him eat what he wants.

he sounds like my dd4, its not a particular colour thing with her ,its got to be the right colour/brand .i wasnt aware that asda/heinz/branston beans are different colours, u dont notice unless u put them beside each other...but dd4 spots it straight away..(she likes her heinz),.if i put her procal into her food it changes the colour ,makes it creamish so beans go peachy and stew goes fawnish.shes got to have "her" plate and "her" cutlery. same goes for the food touching on her plate.

lol arnt they funny, hard work but funny, can I ask what is procal?

procal is a food suppliment , dd4 gets it on presciption from her dietician, shes way below the 0.4 centils on the charts and her hieght and weight wont match up, so thy tried her with peadesure but she didnt take it. procal is plan b. do you not get it for your ds?, puzzled i thought it was standard for kids that are poor eaters????

No, gonna look into that tho dsrplus8, as liker I said we were under Hv for ages, used to come and weigh him. She said hew wasnt drastically underweight but that he is slight build.

To be honest there are quite a few things which have been missed with ds, I wonder why the hv didnt notice the hand flapping (very evident) and she would have known that this is a trait.

we were prescribed the vitamin one, ambidec is it and also told to keep him on the tonic, to get him interested in food.

the vitamins didnt really help my dd4, she was on abidec from birth(docs told me to give her 6ml as newborn.(she had retarded uterine growth)she was on that until turned 3,in the summer.i think they try that then fortifying foods(extra butter, cream ect added) then they go to suppliments after that. id def, get on to the hv, she can refer you to a dietation.

We tried extra cream in things like custard, but he just catches on to what we do, will defo see if he needs to be referred, to be honest, as he is sooooo much better than he was, we kind of let it go, like I said he eats now just very bland food, but when you look at his food groups, they do seem to be quite varied, not just carbs, ok veg non existent, but will eat some fruit.