My DCs picky eating is making me want to curse!!!

[Indianamom2]

I'm right there with you with DD. Last night we had an almost knock down, drag out fight over eating 6 round slices of honey-glazed carrots. Seriously, I'm not a huge veggie person myself, but these were sweet enough to be desert. She almost made herself throw up, mostly because she gets herself all worked up over this sort of thing.

DD has sensory issues and I highly suspect that she is a super-taster. She's very picky and will only eat certain things (over, and over, and over again). We've tried it all. I don't like forcing her to eat things, but DD has some nutritional deficiencies that we've recently discovered and so she MUST get some veggies and more healthy food in her. My idea is to have her try 6 bites/pieces of whatever it is that she doesn't want. She just won't even try new things. (I picked 6 since she is 6 yrs. old.) She is slowly making progress with trying things. Tonight, she tried a few bites of mashed potatoes (with chives and sour cream, though she didn't know about the sour cream!) and she's never liked the taste/texture of mashed potatoes, even as a baby.

Baby steps, some battling and persistence are ever so very slowly working...I think. Oh, and in her case, we've also stressed why she needs a bigger variety of foods and how they keep her healthy, but we have to be somewhat careful there too as she has an obsessive personality and we don't want food to be an area where she becomes obsessed either way, kwim?

Oh, the things they don't teach you about parenting....