Hot packed lunches - please help!

ubamother

Stryder wrote: »

to be honest, i would opt for the "let them starve" approach. Never known any kid actually starving before eating a meatball. Mind you - would starve before eating at McDonalds!

I have found going camping helps - there is nothing like getting people into eating hot stews like spending a week cold and miserable on a campsite.

my fav. budget option is to use dried pulses. nothing like tomatoey bean stew with a bit of chilli

I'm normally of this approach - however, I do know of one child, with some special needs, who was like this. Sensible mother etc. nothing worked. In the end specialist advised hospital admission thinking mother was giving in/exaggerating. After 6 days they agreed that this boy was not going to eat anything he didn't want to. With toddlers plus I understand 3 days is normally the max. OP mentions her boy has special needs which reminded me. Children with special needs often have ways of responding to 'tough love' that are unexpected and incomprehensible to non-special need adults!

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How about a hot pudding like rice pudding?

You can still send him with a sandwich or whatever as a 1st course, but provide a hot fullfilling sweet for afters?