What can i feed the fussiest eater in the world?

welshmaiden

thank you ill give that a go. brought a bread maker last week so think ill try the pizza without sauce idea first. had to buy a new bread maker because my old one i sold in the car boot sale because my ex left me with over three thousand pounds of debt that i didnt even know i had because he had not been paying the bills had been useing my credit card on the internet and hideing all the statements and bill reminders as they came through the post. had the bailiffs at the doort one day demanding five hundred pounds ( for councill tax arrears) off me and they gave me three days to raise the money. so now ive cleared my debts after three years and got myself a bread maker last week. it does do pizza dough.
didnt think of trying wholemeal pasta will try him on that. if i remember rightly it tastes nicer anyway. i will also try him with homemade quiche
thanks for the idea. breakfast is also a big problem as he often goes to school without any except maybe the occasional piece of dry toast ( he thinks of butter and margarine as being a sauce) he wont eat cereal because its got milk in it but will occasionally eat a little dry. he needs to start eating a regular breakfast especially as he is starting high school this year.

whatatwit

Will he eat barbeque sauce, if so, you could try using that on pizza.
Also for the roast dinners, if you were to cook a joint, you could freeze some of the sliced meat in gravy, so you have a base to add fresh veg to. Or, you could freeze a full dinner for him.

His diet does not sound bad, at least he will eat veg.

MUMOF4_2

Hi,
Sounds like your son is picking ideal foods to be eaten, well impressed by his choice of raw fruit and vegetables!
Maybe as he is 11, give him a little bit more input in the meal planning, ask him what he fancies for tea?or get him to write a list of all the foods he is happy to eat, and work around those ones,if its seems to restricting for the rest of the family, then me personally i would cook seperate for the rest of the family. We have had to do that over the years when my son couldnt have dairy, and my daughter couldnt have gluten. I know its a bit time consuming, but I would rather have them well and happy.
I wouldnt be too worried if he choose to eat spagetti on toast 3 nights in a row, if he was eating fresh fruit and vegetable during the day. I find the more pressure you put on your children to try foods, the more they dig their heels in. my eldest has autism and he used to eat pasta every day. I left him to it, and now he eats such a varied diet, because it was his choice to try new foods.
I think its great to hear of a child with such great food choices!!!!

Rowan9

Maybe you could gradually 'up' the tomato sauce content in the home made pizzas until 'normal' - that's what happened with my DH and he eats them ok now. I was at school with a boy (many many years ago ) who said he ate his breakfast cereal dry and had a glass of milk with it.
Good luck!
w

ed to add -as others have said, I think his diet sounds good! And I've eaten unwashed mushrooms on many occasions so don't worry if he does this now and again (and yes, I know what they're grown in!!) - I LOVE raw mushrooms

crockpot

You are not alone!! My DS who is 9 next week will not eat `wet` food ie anything in a sauce.

It`s hard but I found the best think it just to keep ploding on, and giving him stuff to try.

Last night we had quorn chilli,pasta and nan bread- he tried the chili=did not like it so had a tea of plain wholewheat pasta,nan bread and brocoli!!

I now make 1 meal for all most nights, if we are having sheperds pie, i will leave some mash aside for him, he trys the pie-does not like it but will then eat mash-took him 6 years to eat potoato!! and veg.

I try to involve him in the menus, and make sure there are a couple of things he will eat. He will now eat toad in the hole, but took some convincing as the yorkshire pudding was touching the sausage!! But he will now eat it.

He would not eat pizza because of tomatoes, but would eat garlic bread, so made a garlic pizza bread, months on he will ear cheese and tom pizza.

Keep going, he will come right.

His diet sounds alot better than alot of kids I know, ie turkey dinos, smiles and tom sauce every night!

LittleMissAspie

welshmaiden wrote: »

breakfast is also a big problem

Will he eat yogurt? Or will he drink a glass of milk? That plus some fruit is a good breakfast. How about slices of banana on toast?

You said his meds suppress his appetite, and what with all the low calorie fruit and veg, you'll need to make sure he's getting enough calories. Avocado and any type of nuts are good to boost calories in a healthy way.

EssexHebridean

It's a dislike of the texture of sauces by the sounds of it, rather than a dislike of the taste. I agree with the others above, it doesn't sound like his diet is particularly restricted, it does sound though that you're feeling worried by his reluctance to eat the sorts of foods that most kids go mad for.....

How about, when the rest of you are having pasta with sauce, serving his up with a little bowl of the sauce on the side, and another of grated cheese, and letting him help himself to as much of the sauce as he feels comfortable with? If he likes bread then how about Pitta bread cut into strips, raw veggies and dips - you could do two or three different dips and that's something the whole family clould join him in as well so it would make less of a focus on his issues with wet foods.

Stephen_Leak

Run these past him. I'd get him to cook them. They should be well within an 11-year-old's capabilities. I'll leave advising him that boys who can cook are never short of girlfriends up to you!

GARLIC & OIL PASTA (AGLIO E OLIO)

Per Person

INGREDIENTS

1 clove of garlic
1 tablespoon of olive oil
125ml of water
¼ of a teaspoon of salt
100g of spaghetti
Ground pepper to taste

METHOD

Peel the garlic and chop it into tiny pieces.

Put the oil into a frying pan on a moderate heat. Add the garlic. Fry the garlic for about 5 minutes until it is brown, stirring to stop it sticking.

Put the water and salt into a saucepan and bring to the boil. Put the pasta into the water. Stir it to stop it sticking to the bottom of the pan. Bring back to the boil and continue to cook, stirring to stop it sticking.

Begin testing it about 2 minutes before the packet instructions say it should be done. The best way to judge if pasta is cooked is to bite it. This is tricky, because if you fish out a bit and stick in your mouth you may burn your mouth on the boiling water. Wait a bit and blow on it, then bite it. If it is hard it needs longer. If it is chewy (or ‘al dente’, Italian for ‘to the teeth’) it is ready. If it is soft it is overcooked.

Drain the pasta in a sieve or colander. Season with the pepper.

Always ‘take the pasta to the sauce’. Put the pasta in the pan with the sauce and stir until thoroughly coated.

ADDITIONS & ALTERNATIVES

Use any other long thin plain pasta, like linguine (thin and flat), tagliolini (very thin and flat) or spaghettini (very thin and round), instead of spaghetti.

For Garlic & Parsley Pasta, add 25g per person of fresh parsley. Wash, shake dry and finely chop the parsley. Add the parsley just before serving.

For Garlic & Anchovy Pasta, add 13g (¼ of a 50g tin) per person of anchovy fillets in olive oil. If you are using the whole tin, use the oil from this to fry the garlic. Add the anchovies to the garlic after the 5 minutes, and mash up until smooth.

For Garlic, Anchovy & Olive Pasta, add 2 or 3 pitted black olives and 2 or 3 pitted green olives per person to the Garlic & Anchovy Pasta just before serving.

TIPS

If you use enough water, add the pasta when the water is boiling, stir the pasta and don’t wander off (‘Gli spaghetti amano la compagnia’ or ‘spaghetti loves company’) and don’t overcook it, adding olive oil to the water to stop it sticking is totally unnecessary.

PS. I have seen this dish on a restaurant menu for £8.50!

gairlochgal

My 10 yr old is just coming out (I hope!) of a phase where she objected to food she was unsure about. She took against "messy" sauces, casseroles with bits of veg she couldn't identify, all that sort of thing. I just held the line about eating enough, banned puds if she wouldn't eat a reasonable portion, tried not to let it build up as a stress point between us. Seems to be working, slowly but surely.

Good luck - I like the pasta recipe and will give it a whirl with my kids.

elle_gee

Does he like peanut butter, jam, marmite or honey? Would he have any of these on toast or on a bagel before school?