well, no, he does eat carrots. but thats it. when he was really young he used to love veges all the time, then he stopped liking them. he never liked fruit but once in a blue moon will devour a watermelon, or a banana or something like that, but truely once a blue moon!
It makes going to other peoples place difficult. I get "You shouldnt give in and let him leave the table" or "that boy needs to learn to eat" I usually tell them "Im not worried, hes in the 95th centile, hes certainly not lacking and he eats a huge breakfast, if hes hungry he will eat" but then other people get upset that the food THEY made is being refused, he wont even try it. So I end up bringing something I know he will eat and they are amazed at how much he eats but thinks I spoil him by doing this.
The thing is, I never bring really healthy meals, its usually something like butter chicken or homemade spaghetti etc, he loves those types of meals, anything with pasta or rice and a meat and sauce. I add veges and he either picks every single vege out or just flat out refuses to eat the meal.
With the earthquake just happening here I began to wonder how would he have coped if we had been majorly affected, in teh fact I wouldnt be having food that cater to his desire, but it would be meals where he would have no choice but to accept whats being offered in front of him and I worry that hes not getting the vitamins he needs without fruit and vege, yet Im sick of adapting a meal to make sure he eats it.
I made a meal last week and the only thing he did eat off the plate was the carrots!! I didnt know whether to be ok with that or not.
Im not really looking for ideas on how to get the fruit and vege into his food unseen or anything like that, I know how to do all that because Ive done it. I want to know how I can get him to just eat the dam thing without so much hard work being involved! I mean I cant go to a visitors house and say "can you puree some of the vege and add it to his xxxx food please?" it just feels ridiculous.
Ive tried the whole 'missing out on a meal cos he wont eat it' and he doesnt care, he will get another meal at dinner/breakfast/lunch. MIL tried this with DH when he was a boy, DH would only eat fish fingers and MIL made a meal that DH wouldnt eat. So she kept reheating it every mealtime (and having to replace it with the same thing after it went hard and old)...... she gave up after a week and gave him the fish fingers.
