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Submitted by pabu on Sat, 07/18/2020 - 7:25pm

We have been working over the past year or so to get SS7 to eat vegetables. He will NOT eat anything thats not potato chips, meat, dairy or bread. With the occasional apple thrown in.

One of the first times we had dinner together with DH and SS7 he had a fit over HALF a cherry tomato and a shread of lettuce on his plate. He did not have to eat it, it was not touching anything else, it just needed to be on the plate.

We have slowly worked to be able to have vegatables on his plate and even to have vegtables say in pasta sause (he will just pick around them). He has even been trying them (to promtly sit them out) on his own. 

DH admits that they did not teach SS7 good habits when he was younger and takes resbonsibily for this but the problem still remains.

I THOUGHT I WAS MAKING PROGRESS. AND  I WAS .... FOR A WHILE.

He has been slowing eating very little of his dinner, even easy meals like pasta or chicken and rice. We were trying not to force feed him to not build a negative relationship with food and dinner time.

But what did I find out the other day you ask?

Bio mum has been taking him to McDonalds after she picks him up on Wednesday. DH has SS7 after school untill after dinner so of course he is not eat a health dinner when he has the promice chicken nuggets and a Mc Flurry.

 

Just fustrated.... 

 

 

 

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Submitted by tog redux on Sat, 07/18/2020 - 7:40pm

For me, this falls in the category of "not your problem". Let the bio parents deal with his food issues.

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Submitted by JRI on Sat, 07/18/2020 - 10:06pm

My 3 SKs each had/have different eating habits.  SD58 was/is extremely picky, lives mostly on pasta and Hawaiian rolls.  SS56 ate everything.  SS53 was very picky,  saying "What smells?" while I was cooking.  

I had so many more pressing issues trying to blend a 5- kid family, with a busy, hypetactive DH.  I just fixed whatever I was going to fix.  Sometimes one of them would instead ask DH for fast food money (within walking distance).  I just thought, whatever.

I thought the kids might be doing it as a passive aggressive revolt against me but SD is still a picky eater altho SS now eats more things but is still selectibe.

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Submitted by JRI on Sat, 07/18/2020 - 10:08pm

My 3 SKs each had/have different eating habits.  SD58 was/is extremely picky, lives mostly on pasta and Hawaiian rolls.  SS56 ate everything.  SS53 was very picky,  saying "What smells?" while I was cooking.  

I had so many more pressing issues trying to blend a 5- kid family, with a busy, hyperactive DH.  I just fixed whatever I was going to fix.  Sometimes one of them would instead ask DH for fast food money (within walking distance).  I just thought, whatever.

I thought the kids might be doing it as a passive aggressive revolt against me but SD is still a picky eater altho SS now eats more things but is still selective..