Those with picky eaters

[raynes]

What's LO eating these days?  I'm so running out of things to feed this kid.  I know I just need to try more things, but I'm in a rut.

So, if your LO is a picky eater, what do they actually like/eat?

[imimahoney]

Ari eats all fruit, protein except for deli meat (like chicken and fish) cold cubed sweet potato, cheese and eggs once in a blue moon. He does like bagels and cream cheese but I don't want to give them one everyday.

Veggies its just avocado, chopped tomatoes, and sometimes green beans.

[imimahoney]

He will also eat mac and cheese and noodles but only with tomato sauce. He hates actual spaghetti though, so any elbows, shells or ziti.

[mala]

Cheese (cottage cheese and babybel, she won't drink milk so I offer her a lot of cheese. Cottage cheese is her favorite), bread, avocado, banana, green beans, peas, white and brown rice, brown rice and spinach balls (the recipe is floating around the board somewhere), sweet potato, quesiadillas, pasta

[joyhart02]

Pasta with sauce, whole grain chicken nuggets, Annie's Mac and cheese, turkey hot dog, lots and lots of fruit tortellini with sauce.

Breakfast is usually pancakes or waffles, she dislikes eggs and any bread or toast.

I need ideas too, she dislikes bread!

Lydia is a class A picky eater and I do not want Calista to turn into the same thing.

[EmmieB1025]

E used to be a great eater, but now he hardly eats anything. He won't eat any fruit. The only way I can get him to eat veggies is to mix them in with something else like spaghetti sauce or shredded chicken. The only foods I can get him to eat without a fight are black beans, cubed sweet potatoes, bread of any kind, cheese, peanut butter, yogurt, and corn. I am going to try making a veggie pizza for him to see if he'll eat that since it will mix a lot of his favorites with other stuff.

[tennisgal]

Fairly picky eater here.
Consistently will eat: yogurt, cottage cheese, grapes, Gerber Ravioli, puffs, nilla wafers, graham crackers, puree baby foods/squeeze pouches.
Will sometimes eat - or will eat one day and then throw it on the ground the next day: bananas, peaches, pears, toast, cheese, cooked carrots, potatoes, deli meat, hot dogs, ground beef, pasta (other than ravioli)

Daycare has commented that they think he's getting bored with the food I send....but I can't send food to DC that he hasn't tried at home. And they can't use the microwave to heat/reheat anything, so if I want it hot, I have to send it in a thermos, which is a pain, so I don't really do that. So, my options are kinda limited!

[The Foozzler]

Tyler loves pasta with tomato sauce. So I take the ninja and I blend all sorts of veggies into the sauce. This is how I get him to eat spinach, carrots, broccoli, etc.

[EmmieB1025]

Jun 24, 2013 11:54:16 GMT -5 The Foozzler said:

Tyler loves pasta with tomato sauce. So I take the ninja and I blend all sorts of veggies into the sauce. This is how I get him to eat spinach, carrots, broccoli, etc.

This is exactly what I have to do this for DH and E!  

[devonpow]

He will always, always eat: cheese (most kinds. Shredded, cheese sticks, whatever), yogurt (prefers Greek. Loves yogurt tubes but it is hard to find full fat ones). applesauce, hummus (not on anything. Just hummus with a spoon), bananas, watermelon, pouches of anything, turkey meatballs, pancakes, blueberries, pineapple.

He will SOMETIMES eat - mac n' cheese, and occassionally tortellini. Other meats (not deli sliced, though), all other fruits (outside of the banana and blueberry favorites), chickpeas, rice, hardboiled eggs.

Basically everything else is tossed off the tray.

Henry is SUPER PICKY (and has "food issues" - for example. I love Greek yogurt and eat it every day. He is severely grossed out by even the look or smell of yogurt and requests that I eat it acros the room from him). With E I am trying to be a lot more relaxed about his food. I put whatever it is we are eating on his tray, and if he eats, fine, if not, whatever. Easier said than done, though!

[rubber pants]

This is the only stuff that DD will eat:

-pasta (buttered noodles, pasta with sauce, ravioli's)
-pasta fagioli with ground turkey (so strange but she loves this stuff! I usually make a huge crockpot batch and freeze individual servings in muffin pans and then defrost a few each week).
-fruit and cheese (this is always our standby)
-avacado (This is the only veggie she eats. she has half of an avacado a day, 1/4 at lunch and 1/4 at dinner)
-greek yogurt (great calories and protien)
-eggs (i make a lot of cheese omlets)
-broccoli cheese quiche cups (she used to love these but has been a little "meh" with them lately)
-lunch meat has been hit or miss but she wont eat it on bread. Today I sent her to daycare with turkey roll ups with cheese. I bet she wont eat any of it - LOL.

[raynes]

Thanks ladies, more things to try.

For reference Owen will eat yogurt, toast, waffles (part of it, sometimes), a bite or 2 of banana, will gnaw on a pepper slice for a bit, baby cereal, cheese quesadillas (I can sometimes hide veggies), grilled cheese, but NOT cold cheese, muffins, bananacado and that's about it, other than pouches. He ate perogies once.

DC has gotten him to eat pasta and a few other things, but any time I offer it he just chucks it on the floor.