Khyan won't eat anything other than ham, polony, chicken fingers/nuggets, chips or mac & cheese, vegemite sandwich, yoghurt, scrambled egg and toast - do you notice the lack of vegetables :roll: other then those there is fruit and other snack type foods
The routine normally goes I cook something "healthy" he eats NONE (won't even put it in his mouth) and then he leaves the table and then about 30 mins later I make him toast or something for his tummy so that he doesn't go to bed hungry :roll:
Anyway today I had enough and cooked up risotto which was a fav of his about 5 months ago so I sat down with him and he refused to put any in his mouth. Well I normally try to do everything with respect - like asking him before I do anything, offering choices etc. Any way today I had enough and held him down and shoved the food in his mouth, he tried to spit it out so I held his mouth together and forced him to swallow (kind of like feeding a dog a tablet) so he swallows looks at me and says " MORE, MORE" and proceeds to scoff an entire bowl :x What the....
I have done something similar on other occassions with similar results :shock: - even scrambled eggs which is his absolute favourite, I didn't give for 1 month and then when presented with it again I had to force it in so that he realised that he liked it :shock:
I am now wondering if he would eat a fair few things if he would just try them
Do you have any ideas of a more respectful way of encouraging him to try different foods ?