Re: Picky eaters/Food Sensitivity??

[Guest guest]

In a message dated 12/14/01 7:03:08 PM Eastern Standard Time,

wykhurst@... writes:

<< I am curious, what were his four foods? My son, if left to his own devices

would eat rice, french fries, juice and imagine chocolate pudding. And he

wants pasta sauce on everything. He has started rejecting things like

peaches, pears, my chicken nuggets (AARG!), won't eat these rice crackers

that I have to even hide from my husband, he'll only eat Noah's bread the

day they come out of the oven... He wouldn't EVER drink darifree. :-P My

biggest bugaboo with him is ensuring adequate calcium.

>>

Some of these kids have sensory issues with foods. It's not the taste, but

the textures and chewing that make them reject the foods. When he was 3 yrs

old, my son overcame this by working 2x/wk with an Oral-Motor therapist and

an ABA-style " Food tasting and Desensitizing " program.

[Guest guest]

That's interesting. I have never felt that my son fell into this category of

being super sensitive orally. I do know that he can't stand the texture of

meat. He is uncanny in detecting meat too. I blend cooked meat in the

blender or use baby food meat and hide it and if I put " too much " in he

won't eat it. (Even if he doesn't know I put ANY meat in the food.) It's

weird. He is pretty high functioning and if *we* are eating meat he says

things like, " Are you eating a dead cow? " or " Is that a dead chicken? " My 21

month old daughter is completely the opposite. If she could, she would eat

ONLY meat, she is the most carnivorous child I have ever seen.

Suzanne

on 12/14/01 5:10 PM, amterry@... at amterry@... wrote:

In a message dated 12/14/01 7:03:08 PM Eastern Standard Time,

wykhurst@... writes:

<< I am curious, what were his four foods? My son, if left to his own

devices

would eat rice, french fries, juice and imagine chocolate pudding. And he

wants pasta sauce on everything. He has started rejecting things like

peaches, pears, my chicken nuggets (AARG!), won't eat these rice crackers

that I have to even hide from my husband, he'll only eat Noah's bread the

day they come out of the oven... He wouldn't EVER drink darifree. :-P My

biggest bugaboo with him is ensuring adequate calcium.

>>

Some of these kids have sensory issues with foods. It's not the taste, but

the textures and chewing that make them reject the foods. When he was 3 yrs

old, my son overcame this by working 2x/wk with an Oral-Motor therapist and

an ABA-style " Food tasting and Desensitizing " program.