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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 548708" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>There are a lot of differing opinions on this. Personally, no fruits or veggies meant no sweets here. At one point I got them totally out of the house until the kids ate them regularly. Wiz was furious, and picked a lot of fights, but I didn't give in much.</p><p></p><p>Your son is almost 9. He is old enough to clean up after himself. Why not keep sweets/junk food to a minimum, make dinner and if he won't eat what is for dinner then he can make one of 2 things for himself and he must clean up after them completely - ALL the dishes and wiping up spills/microwave/toaster/whatever. My kids could make a sandwich, heat up leftovers from a previous night, or microwave something simple if they hated what I ate for dinner. Of course by 10 they were making dinner for the family once a week simply because I feel independence is healthy and it let them experience working hard to fix dinner and then having people refuse to eat it, make comments good and bad, etc...... </p><p></p><p>I felt we had enough problems that fighting over what the kids ate wasn't a battle I usually wanted to fight. There were times where one of the kids would refuse to eat what we ate for weeks and I would get sick of it, or they all wanted to make something different every night and then I would insist they either eat what was for dinner or go hungry for a few weeks. Sometimes it just became a problem to have all 3 of them making something different every night, Know what I mean?? Mostly I didn't/don't get into what they eat simply because we have enough other things to battle. At least we did with Wiz. </p><p></p><p>As for trying new foods, I know Marg had some success with getting difficult child 3 to try new things, and her ideas seemed really great. I have also found that many kids will try things on pizza that they won't eat on anything else. Esp if you put the cheese on top of the veggies or whatever and they are chopped up fairly small.</p><p></p><p>There are also some books out about how to sneak veggies into foods, and I know several moms of spectrum kids who swear by this. For example you can make a great chocolate cake with tomato soup in it - and can sneak pureed veggies into all sorts of things. I think one book was titled something like Deceptively Delicious. Personally I have done this for myself because I DETEST the texture more than the taste of many veggies, and pureed and put into things I don't notice and I get the nutrients I need. I also use part applesauce or mashed banana for the liquid in pancakes, and other things like this, to increase the nutrient value of them.</p><p></p><p>FYI, if you mash bananas and freeze them in an ice cream freezer, or in a container in the freezer that you stir every 1/2 hr or so, it makes an amazing, creamy, rich ice cream. Nothing else needed, just bananas. As mostly I hate the taste of health food, saying this is great is saying something. </p><p></p><p>I have also found that involving kids in the cooking process, and in the choice of what is served for meals and in portion control, increases their willingness to try things. Not for every kid, of course, but it cannot hurt to try. You can also make your own mixes in very little time and it really increases the nutrient value and decreases the unhealthy things in the food you serve your family. I can suggest some recipes and books if you are interested. Plus it is cheaper than buying mixes in the store, amazingly enough.</p><p></p><p>I do know where your difficult child is coming from though. I must confess that I am a FAR pickier eater than any of my kids. FAR pickier.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 548708, member: 1233"] There are a lot of differing opinions on this. Personally, no fruits or veggies meant no sweets here. At one point I got them totally out of the house until the kids ate them regularly. Wiz was furious, and picked a lot of fights, but I didn't give in much. Your son is almost 9. He is old enough to clean up after himself. Why not keep sweets/junk food to a minimum, make dinner and if he won't eat what is for dinner then he can make one of 2 things for himself and he must clean up after them completely - ALL the dishes and wiping up spills/microwave/toaster/whatever. My kids could make a sandwich, heat up leftovers from a previous night, or microwave something simple if they hated what I ate for dinner. Of course by 10 they were making dinner for the family once a week simply because I feel independence is healthy and it let them experience working hard to fix dinner and then having people refuse to eat it, make comments good and bad, etc...... I felt we had enough problems that fighting over what the kids ate wasn't a battle I usually wanted to fight. There were times where one of the kids would refuse to eat what we ate for weeks and I would get sick of it, or they all wanted to make something different every night and then I would insist they either eat what was for dinner or go hungry for a few weeks. Sometimes it just became a problem to have all 3 of them making something different every night, Know what I mean?? Mostly I didn't/don't get into what they eat simply because we have enough other things to battle. At least we did with Wiz. As for trying new foods, I know Marg had some success with getting difficult child 3 to try new things, and her ideas seemed really great. I have also found that many kids will try things on pizza that they won't eat on anything else. Esp if you put the cheese on top of the veggies or whatever and they are chopped up fairly small. There are also some books out about how to sneak veggies into foods, and I know several moms of spectrum kids who swear by this. For example you can make a great chocolate cake with tomato soup in it - and can sneak pureed veggies into all sorts of things. I think one book was titled something like Deceptively Delicious. Personally I have done this for myself because I DETEST the texture more than the taste of many veggies, and pureed and put into things I don't notice and I get the nutrients I need. I also use part applesauce or mashed banana for the liquid in pancakes, and other things like this, to increase the nutrient value of them. FYI, if you mash bananas and freeze them in an ice cream freezer, or in a container in the freezer that you stir every 1/2 hr or so, it makes an amazing, creamy, rich ice cream. Nothing else needed, just bananas. As mostly I hate the taste of health food, saying this is great is saying something. I have also found that involving kids in the cooking process, and in the choice of what is served for meals and in portion control, increases their willingness to try things. Not for every kid, of course, but it cannot hurt to try. You can also make your own mixes in very little time and it really increases the nutrient value and decreases the unhealthy things in the food you serve your family. I can suggest some recipes and books if you are interested. Plus it is cheaper than buying mixes in the store, amazingly enough. I do know where your difficult child is coming from though. I must confess that I am a FAR pickier eater than any of my kids. FAR pickier. [/QUOTE]
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