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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 46094" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>It could easily be a texture issue. Can you make her own pureed vegetables for her? It might be an option. You can do some interesting things with vegetable puree, including making little patties out of it. What about burgers? Will she eat home-made burgers?</p><p></p><p>If she's into cereals, sounds like she's hooked on carbs. Have you ever tried making gnocchi? It's fun to make (for kids as well) and uses leftover mashed potato, egg and flour. I have recipes that use other mashed vegetable, especially pumpkin or kumara (yellow sweet potato). I'll send you the recipe if you want, but you might be able to find it for yourself.</p><p></p><p>Home-made pasta - I make my own, I use one of those hand-cranked pasta machines to roll it out, like an old-fashioned mangle in the laundry for wringing out the clothes. With home-made pasta you can sneak in some vegetable content (it changes the colour), which makes it fun. The home-made sauce - you should be able to sneak in finely shopped carrot, onions, garlic, tomato. Home-made garlic bread - I just spread the garlic butter onto a slice of bread, sprinkle on some parmesan cheese and cook it under the grill.</p><p></p><p>Home-made pasta sauce - you can cheat a little by using bottled sugo as a base, but it's really easy to chop up your own fresh tomatoes and throw them in the pan. If she's eating anything like this, I certainly wouldn't worry.</p><p></p><p>Try raw food - leave whole chunks of fresh salad vegetables lying around in the fridge - carrot sticks, celery sticks, spring onion (scallions, shallots, whatever you call them) even raw mushrooms. Fresh tomatoes, fresh fruit (peeled, seeded). Frozen fruit - fabulous, straight from the freezer, especially on a hot day. Make sure it's a really good deep freezer, not one that can barely freeze ice or the fruit will continue to ripen and degrade. Fruit that's fabulous frozen - bananas, orange wedges, passionfruit, mango, grapes (any variety, but especially seedless), pineapple, strawberries, raspberries, blackberries. You can also puree frozen fruit (include frozen banana) into a fabulous frozen thickshake that you need a spoon to eat. You could almost soft-serve it into a cone. If you add only a couple of frozen raspberries it goes a glorious pink colour. Add a couple of raspberries to a frozen mango and banana treat and it's the colour of a tropical sunset.</p><p></p><p>You can also try mixing in a raw egg to a banana smoothie or frozen fruit - see if she'll eat it.</p><p></p><p>I was a horror with food when I was a kid - I was almost a vegetarian, because my mother would cook stews and hide bits in them, to get me to eat them. Offal, mainly. Kidney, liver - yuk! Mushroom, capsicum - hated it. I had to know what I was eating. She made a watermelon salad once which I got very upset about because I ate a piece of watermelon when my eyes told me it was tomato - I felt betrayed, even though I like both. If I had known when I ate it that it was watermelon I could have handled it. I do wonder if I'm a bit Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD) myself sometimes.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 46094, member: 1991"] It could easily be a texture issue. Can you make her own pureed vegetables for her? It might be an option. You can do some interesting things with vegetable puree, including making little patties out of it. What about burgers? Will she eat home-made burgers? If she's into cereals, sounds like she's hooked on carbs. Have you ever tried making gnocchi? It's fun to make (for kids as well) and uses leftover mashed potato, egg and flour. I have recipes that use other mashed vegetable, especially pumpkin or kumara (yellow sweet potato). I'll send you the recipe if you want, but you might be able to find it for yourself. Home-made pasta - I make my own, I use one of those hand-cranked pasta machines to roll it out, like an old-fashioned mangle in the laundry for wringing out the clothes. With home-made pasta you can sneak in some vegetable content (it changes the colour), which makes it fun. The home-made sauce - you should be able to sneak in finely shopped carrot, onions, garlic, tomato. Home-made garlic bread - I just spread the garlic butter onto a slice of bread, sprinkle on some parmesan cheese and cook it under the grill. Home-made pasta sauce - you can cheat a little by using bottled sugo as a base, but it's really easy to chop up your own fresh tomatoes and throw them in the pan. If she's eating anything like this, I certainly wouldn't worry. Try raw food - leave whole chunks of fresh salad vegetables lying around in the fridge - carrot sticks, celery sticks, spring onion (scallions, shallots, whatever you call them) even raw mushrooms. Fresh tomatoes, fresh fruit (peeled, seeded). Frozen fruit - fabulous, straight from the freezer, especially on a hot day. Make sure it's a really good deep freezer, not one that can barely freeze ice or the fruit will continue to ripen and degrade. Fruit that's fabulous frozen - bananas, orange wedges, passionfruit, mango, grapes (any variety, but especially seedless), pineapple, strawberries, raspberries, blackberries. You can also puree frozen fruit (include frozen banana) into a fabulous frozen thickshake that you need a spoon to eat. You could almost soft-serve it into a cone. If you add only a couple of frozen raspberries it goes a glorious pink colour. Add a couple of raspberries to a frozen mango and banana treat and it's the colour of a tropical sunset. You can also try mixing in a raw egg to a banana smoothie or frozen fruit - see if she'll eat it. I was a horror with food when I was a kid - I was almost a vegetarian, because my mother would cook stews and hide bits in them, to get me to eat them. Offal, mainly. Kidney, liver - yuk! Mushroom, capsicum - hated it. I had to know what I was eating. She made a watermelon salad once which I got very upset about because I ate a piece of watermelon when my eyes told me it was tomato - I felt betrayed, even though I like both. If I had known when I ate it that it was watermelon I could have handled it. I do wonder if I'm a bit Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD) myself sometimes. Marg [/QUOTE]
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