Need advice...

[dhanwanti]

Needs advice about her daughter... She is INCREDIBLY Difficult about eating... she only eats a few different things, refuses to eat veggies, and does not really like fruit... so I need advice on how to get her to eat better...i can't do the "ok you don't eat what I make, you starve", cause she gets a wicked stomach ache and then throws up if she

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[ioianthe]

some kids respond to renaming food; like don't want to eat your broccoli? How about your super space trees? One little boy at my work needs me to sing to him and now his parents sing the food song and he'll eat almost anything... The other big thing is hidden food. Does she like pasta? There are several sauce recipes that hide multiple servings of vegetables. You can also reward trying. Make something you know she will eat, or a special treat for desert, but don't let her move on to it until she has tried a few bites of what everyone else is having.

[dhanwanti]

Thanks... she is 7 so I don't think the renaming food will work, what is the food song? and the hiding food thing, she will only eat pasta when it is completely plain... (no sauce, butter or cheese), I think the reward thing might work...

[guendalina]

I would try the renaming it still works for Kathryn and she's 14. Then after they've eaten it and liked it a few times you tell them what it's really called. She refused to eat hamburger for the longest time, but when I told her we were having a ground steak sandwhich she'd eat it now she loves hamburgers.

[minion12]

First of all, make sure she's taking a quality multi-vitamin, that'll help. Next, if she likes fruit juice get her the v-8 frusion which is a mixture of fruits and vegetables. It's expensive but does give her a serving of fruits and vegetables. You might enroll her in a children's cooking class. It'll be fun for her and she'll start associating food with fun. Plus it will expose her to new foods. Bring her shopping with you and let her pick out and help you prepare meals. Keep offering her different things but don't make a big deal of it. Don't make the food issue into a control issue and perhaps she'll start to be more receptive to different kinds of foods. Also, take a look at what she'll eat to take a look at the nutritional content. Model good eating habits. Eat the veggies and fruit, offer her some, but don't make an issue. She might get curious if she sees you eating it enough.

[dhanwanti]

thank you all for the great advice!
I am working with her on it... and I am going to be talking to her this weekend about a couple things...

thanks again!! I will keep you all updated!