My son is on a diet that is free of gluten and rotates with different nuts, seeds, and rice. He loves raw veggies and his really strong tasting vitamin and mineral supplements from Brainchild Nutritionals. He also eats fish and chicken for grounding. I make a coconut pudding pie that is both vegan and gluten free, if anybody wants to know how.
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Tue, June 5, 2007 - 12:26 PMWhat I want to know is how the heck you get your kid to eat all that? How do you get them to try anything new? Even with my NT kid, new foods aren't easy. My boy's diet consists of fewer than a dozen items, none of which is either meat or vegetable. -
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Tue, June 5, 2007 - 6:12 PMI don't know. I guess we're just lucky. The other funny thing he likes is chlorella tablets. We use them as rewards and his teachers use them as reinforcers. I would try giving them one fun food and a few new good things with salty or sweet flavors to begin with each day. I have gotten kids to enjoy baked tofu, seaweed, broccoli, asparagus, and brown rice. It just needs to be paired with good sauces or dips for the raw veggies. What kind of food do you eat?
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Tue, June 5, 2007 - 6:25 PMAmen. Someone suggested that I grind broccoli into air and mix it in spaghetti sauce as a way to get a vegetable into my boy. From that day to this he has refused spaghetti sauce, I tried it when he was three, now he's eight. And may I note that I had a ratio of about 1 spear of broccoli to a gallon of spaghetti sauce?
The day I got him to try scrambled eggs was a major celebration. Picky little monster. -
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Tue, June 5, 2007 - 6:26 PM...and may I just note that I am raw with envy of parent's whose kids will eat anything? Just raw I tell 'ya.....
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Wed, June 6, 2007 - 7:24 AMWe try to stay predominately raw which is much easier over the summer. It's pretty rare that anything other than "whole foods" makes it into my house. The only "snack foods" here are carrot sticks, jicama slices, fresh fruit, etc. When I first started doing more raw the things I introduced to the kids first were the super yummies - raw ice cream (they think it's better then *actual* ice cream), nut based puddings, and strawberry pie with almond crust. Whenever I made a salad or whatever for myself I made sure it looked great (presentation helps!) and made lots of yummy sounds.... they'd ask for a bite and I'd say, "you may not like it" - of course they still wanted to try, which seems to be the key, right? My teenage son is a regular salad eater now, but my daughter prefers the crunchiness of carrots & jicama - tough getting much green into that kid ;-) -
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Wed, June 6, 2007 - 9:36 AMWhat's raw ice cream? And how on EARTH did you get your kids to eat those things??? My son will NOT eat anything that is raw, crunchy or stick-shaped - he very politiely hands it back to me or tries to put it back in the bag. I usually have to puree his veggies and sneak them into a yogurt smoothie. -
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Wed, June 6, 2007 - 9:40 AMSee, my kid is EXACTLY opposite. The only non crunchy things he consumes are his peanut butter sandwiches, orange juice and power bars. Next to all that, toast is about as un-crunchy as it gets. Crackers and granola bars are pretty much it beyond all that. No chicken nuggets, no hot dogs, no pizza, no ice cream. Nada. -
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Wed, June 6, 2007 - 10:06 AMUh huh...same here. Peanut rejects all but very specific textures....and by that I mean it matters what *brand* I buy sometimes because he can tell the difference. He ate anything that I put in front of him until he about 15 mos old and I was in a heaven of vegetables and good healthy food.
Then one day he just said 'no'. His food library plummeted to about five things and stayed that way until last year when we started med therapy, since then he has added about a half a dozen things (glory glory), but he is still incredibly senstive about textures that go into his mouth. -
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Wed, June 6, 2007 - 10:24 AMYup. Except ours has had food issues since he was a baby. When looking to whether we thought that vaccinations were a contributing factor to his autism, we did a lot of reading, and realized the he showed signs even as a baby, especially with his food issues. Even as a newborn, he had a weak suck and a difficult time latching. When it came time to introduce new foods, between six and nine months, he refused nearly everything but crackers and choked on bread and zweiback toast all the time, scaring the bejesus out of us on more than a few occasions. Between 12 and 15 months, we had him eating mashed potatoes, mac and cheese, corn on the cob, even pizza (mostly just the crust, though), and he began refusing those foods bit by bit until he was at the level he's at now. It is extremely rare that he will add something new. This year it was cake. In school, a lot of the kids bring in cupcakes on their birthdays, and our boy will eat the cake, but not the frosting. -
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Wed, June 6, 2007 - 11:09 AMIf you don't mind me asking, what does he like to eat? What kind of allergies? What kinds of textures and flavors? Maybe I can come up with some new ideas. My son has autism, too. -
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Wed, June 6, 2007 - 11:45 AMPretty much just peanut butter and honey sandwiches on white bread, buttered toast (on many different types of bread, thank god), fish crackers, graham crackers, triscuits (the only dairy we get into him is when we melt cheese onto the triscuits and make sandwiches out of them, ritz crackers, crunchy granola bars, power bars, corn chips... that's all I can think of. He will eat cake (but not icing) and chocolate and several types of homemade cookies, although those are not a part of his daily diet, and we've been having marginal success getting Flintstones vitamins into him lately. Orange juice, apple juice, and water are the only things he'll drink.
His grandmother is a dietitian, and she thinks (all things considered, of course) that his diet is pretty well established. We give him the extra calcium orange juice and look for calcium wherever we can find it, but the peanut butter gives him plenty of protein and calories. He's thin, but not skinny, and generally very healthy. So while it drives us bananas that he won't eat more variety, otherwise, his selective eating isn't the worst of our troubles.
I'm always interested in new ideas that might increase the variety of the foods he eats, though. Got any ideas? -
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Wed, June 6, 2007 - 12:00 PMHe doesn't have reactions to wheat? Like yeasty breath or bouts of bowel issues? -
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Wed, June 6, 2007 - 12:08 PMI'm not sure what "yeasty breath" smells like, but he has had on and off GI issues since he was a baby. We put him on the GFCF diet for a while, but after four months or so of food insanity and seeing no improvements, we let him eat a piece of wheat toast off of our plate one night, to check for a reaction. Everything I'd read said that there would be one. When there was zero change in him, we chucked the diet. I don't think that wheat was the problem in his case. -
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Wed, June 6, 2007 - 12:46 PMRoast for an hour a mixture of bite size chunks of potatoes, yams, and carrots with whole cloves of garlic and salt. Try it really crispy if he likes the crunch. We also like to do corn, peas and black beans with a side of corn quesadillas. Have you tried probiotics for the GI stuff?
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Wed, June 6, 2007 - 12:04 PMI've got a recipe somewhere, but now I just throw stuff together ;-)
Toss frozen banana chunks, other fruit and/or cocoa/carob/peanut butter, and honey or maple syrup if desired (fruit alone is sweet enough for us) in your food processer with an "S" blade and whiz around until it's mealy looking. With the fp still running, drizzle water or juice through the feed tube - just enough to pull it all together. Serve immediately.
FYI - unless you're using over ripe bananas it doesn't taste banana-y... it's more of a texture thing. There's another one that uses a coconut base... I'll look it up when I get home.
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Wed, June 6, 2007 - 11:23 AMI dig it! Here's my pudding pie. Make a packet of Dr Oetker rice based pudding mix. Substitute coconut milk for the water. Let it cool in the pot. Make an easy crust with almond meal, maple syrup, coconut shreds, pinch of salt, vanilla, and any other goodies you like. Let the crust chill in the freezer. Pour in the cooled pudding. Let it chill until more solid before serving. Eat! I suppose it could be adapted to be raw with the nut based pudding you mentioned earlier. Care to share? Enjoy..... -
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Wed, June 6, 2007 - 12:09 PMnut puddings are super easy - soak raw nuts (in other words, not roasted) until soft, drain water. Put soaked nuts in food processor with a splash of vanilla and sweeten to taste (I usually do 2c cashews, 1/2c maple syrup, 1/2c cocoa). -
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Thu, June 7, 2007 - 11:25 AMThank you "bite me". That looks really yummy!
Another good snack we like is popcorn. I like to put a little turmeric in the butter or oil that you use to flavor it in the end. It's good for you. -
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Fri, June 8, 2007 - 10:03 AMThanks for sharing your ideas. Unless there are any other fun or challenging things to share regarding eating or food I will probably delete this topic here and continue this topic in the food for kids tribe. It's nice getting to know you all. -
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Fri, June 8, 2007 - 10:32 AMReally? Why delete it? I mean it's your thread, do your thing, but out of curiosity, why do you feel it needs deleting? -
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Fri, June 8, 2007 - 10:54 AMI don't know. I'm really new at this. Sure, I'll keep it going. I just thought there would be more input on a food specific tribe. I'm happy about your successful school trip.
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