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<blockquote data-quote="Liahona" data-source="post: 553247"><p>We had a completely different situation. difficult child 1 refused to eat what we had at our house because x was telling him how awful it was, and x was letting him eat what ever he wanted (bags of m&m's, fast foods, ect...) We are also very poor, so it wasn't an option to change what we were eating to the more expensive food x was telling difficult child 1 we should be feeding him. It wasn't a sensory thing at all. After a few days of not eating difficult child 1 would get so hungry he would binge on the foods he first turned down. His weight was dangerously low so we had to do something about it. We tried the pediasure drinks, but he hated it. We ended up having the rule of you eat what is given to you. Then we would give him ridiculously small portions. We would try incentives of game time to get him to eat. We never force fed him. Most times after sitting at the table for a long time if the rest of the family started watching a movie he would hurry and eat to watch it with us. On foods we knew he would binge on we had to limit it. For example, only 3 bowls of cold cereal. It was a huge fight for many years, but we all survived it. (Even if difficult child 1 was a very skinny kid.) Now that he is older and can see through some of x's mind games the food isn't an issue. </p><p></p><p>difficult child 2 and difficult child 3 both have some food issues. For awhile difficult child 2 had to have all his food stuck in the freezer before he would eat it. Mostly with them if its something we haven't had in awhile or haven't had before they won't eat it. If I try to make an issue of it I'll get autistic meltdowns. Its not worth it to me. They aren't dangerously skinny. They just go without eating for a meal. If it starts becoming a big issue (like when they would only eat pb&j) I insist on 3 bites of every food on their plate. After enough times of this they figure out it tastes o.k. and start eating again.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Liahona, post: 553247"] We had a completely different situation. difficult child 1 refused to eat what we had at our house because x was telling him how awful it was, and x was letting him eat what ever he wanted (bags of m&m's, fast foods, ect...) We are also very poor, so it wasn't an option to change what we were eating to the more expensive food x was telling difficult child 1 we should be feeding him. It wasn't a sensory thing at all. After a few days of not eating difficult child 1 would get so hungry he would binge on the foods he first turned down. His weight was dangerously low so we had to do something about it. We tried the pediasure drinks, but he hated it. We ended up having the rule of you eat what is given to you. Then we would give him ridiculously small portions. We would try incentives of game time to get him to eat. We never force fed him. Most times after sitting at the table for a long time if the rest of the family started watching a movie he would hurry and eat to watch it with us. On foods we knew he would binge on we had to limit it. For example, only 3 bowls of cold cereal. It was a huge fight for many years, but we all survived it. (Even if difficult child 1 was a very skinny kid.) Now that he is older and can see through some of x's mind games the food isn't an issue. difficult child 2 and difficult child 3 both have some food issues. For awhile difficult child 2 had to have all his food stuck in the freezer before he would eat it. Mostly with them if its something we haven't had in awhile or haven't had before they won't eat it. If I try to make an issue of it I'll get autistic meltdowns. Its not worth it to me. They aren't dangerously skinny. They just go without eating for a meal. If it starts becoming a big issue (like when they would only eat pb&j) I insist on 3 bites of every food on their plate. After enough times of this they figure out it tastes o.k. and start eating again. [/QUOTE]
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