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I like Ellen's books. I personally have a daughter with food intolerances on top

of being picky. The approach I take is here is dinner, eat what you want but you

have to at least taste everything. Then I make cookies, breads, and smoothies

that are fortied for snacks. So I sneak in her nutrition. She is 9 now and helps

me bake. So she knows what is in her cookies but she still eats them and truly

enjoys them. Her tastes have changed over the years. When she was young she

actually ate veggies.  Now she only tastes them because she is required to. But

honestly, she has acquired a taste for some of them because she had to keep

trying them. Of course they were made a million different ways. She likes

carrots best in carrot cake. I fortify the recipe and cut down on the fat and

sugar in it. She thinks that is how all baked goods are supposed to be made. And

that is how she is learning to bake as well.

 

I guess what I am saying is make balanced dinners and have them taste

everything. Then sneak in the nutrition in what you know they will eat. It is

like when Katarina was a baby, I just figured she was learning to eat. So it was

ok that she just wore her dinner because her true nutrition was coming from her

formula. The same is true now. Your son is exploring and pushing your buttons

too. Stop letting him. As some one else stated, meal time is for communication.

I also found that when my daughter was part of the preparation process she ate

more too. Now she makes her own personalized pizzas, warms left overs, and makes

sandwiches in the microwave. There is just the 2 of us so the trick for me is to

keep ENOUGH healthy food made and I limit the junk food that is even in the

house. She eats pretty good, even though she rarely eats a lot of " regular "

veggies. And she likes the fact that I made them taste good by adding them to

her snacks.  Also make sure

you are eating your veggies. They do look at what you eat. On a trip from MI to

TN, I had a bag of baby carrots I was snacking on next to me on the seat.

When she thought I was not looking, she was " stealing " my carrots.  Taste change

as children grow up. Carrots were one of her favorite baby foods. She also loved

tomatoes straight from the plant. I had to make sure she did not eat more then

the tomatoes. She did the same thing with broccoli. No one else got any broccoli

when she was a baby. She ate them off the plant. She watched mom picking

vegetables from the garden and she ate what I was picking. Yes, I let a toddler

help me in the garden. I lost a lot of plants, BUT she learned how to garden

too. In TN she used to have her own garden tools (hoe, rake, shovel, etc....) so

she worked along side me. I think that is what I miss most about TN, our yard

with my vegetable and rose gardens.   

Theresa Cornelius, MS, RD, LDN CLT

Changing Lifestyles

Certified LEAP Therapist

Licensed Provider for Real Living Nutrition Services

http://www.reallivingnutrition.com/TheresaCornelius.aspx

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