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....

[DietCokeLover]

So how did you get her to even try taking 6 tastes. Mine both refuse to even take a bite. If they would taste something and then tell me they don't like t, I could handle that better. But they declare it "yucky" before they even taste or smell it. And I'm a good cook! Ha. They're missing out!

[tiapam]

I had a mini meltdown today when my kids would not eat pasta with marinara sauce. DS didn't pay much attention but I think I got some things through to DD. Like it is a PITA to cook for other people especially when they do not appreciate it at all! Both of them ate pasta last week, so this some weeks on some weeks off stuff is really frustrating. It is like trying to hit a moving target. I do not ever force my kids to eat anything, but today I did mention there would be no chance at a dessert. So DD served herself and took a second helping. Not big quantities but we were both happier when she was done. DS apparently forgot that he had said he would not eat it and ate a little, too. The list of "dinners" they will eat is pretty small overall but they are not the worst eaters either.

Breakfast for dinner usually makes everyone happy.

[smilequeen]

I so feel your pain too. My middle son is like this (almost 4). The things he'll eat are very specific and limited. My oldest was never this picky and eats pretty much anything we ask him to try. So far nothing has worked for us either.

[k_null81]

After reading this I feel a little better! One of our twins is really picky as well. I hate meal times...