I tried posting this before but the site kept eating it.
An Aspie parent of an Autistic child was talking about having trouble with her picky eater not getting adequate nutrition. Veggies were the biggest problem. I rememberred this snack: "Harvest Snaps". The ones I have here are made from snap peas, but they have them made out of other vegetables also. They are baked instead of fried, so have less fats on them and they are lightly salted and therefore low sodium. It says 50% less fat compared to potato chips.
I did some stuff to get my picky eater nephew to eat more vegetables a long time ago. I thought they might help with other picky eaters now. I put green food coloring in mashed potatoes and he loved it. Lol. My ex, however refused to eat his. The nephew then ate his as well and thought it was hilarious that his uncle was refusing to eat them.
Then I put a little bit of carrots into mashed potatoes to turn them a nice shade of apricot and made a little nest of them and filled it with some baby peas. The nephew also wolfed those down. I just made regular ones for the ex. Then he complained that I did not make the same thing I did for my nephew and I. Nephew also thought that was hilarious. He was three at the time.
I also fried hash browns and made nests of them. The nephew ate anything I put in the hashbrown nests.
I gave the following explanation to the nephew: kids do not like the same stuff as adults because their tastebuds are not fully developed and they can not taste everything adults can. As your tastebuds get older you will be able to taste more stuff and will like more things. You need to try one bite of stuff you do not like to find out if your tastebuds are ready for it yet. If not, you do not need to eat more of it yet. He agreed that he would try that.
We did that and every so often he would announce that his tastebuds were ready for a new food and eat more of it.
An Aspie parent of an Autistic child was talking about having trouble with her picky eater not getting adequate nutrition. Veggies were the biggest problem. I rememberred this snack: "Harvest Snaps". The ones I have here are made from snap peas, but they have them made out of other vegetables also. They are baked instead of fried, so have less fats on them and they are lightly salted and therefore low sodium. It says 50% less fat compared to potato chips.
I did some stuff to get my picky eater nephew to eat more vegetables a long time ago. I thought they might help with other picky eaters now. I put green food coloring in mashed potatoes and he loved it. Lol. My ex, however refused to eat his. The nephew then ate his as well and thought it was hilarious that his uncle was refusing to eat them.
Then I put a little bit of carrots into mashed potatoes to turn them a nice shade of apricot and made a little nest of them and filled it with some baby peas. The nephew also wolfed those down. I just made regular ones for the ex. Then he complained that I did not make the same thing I did for my nephew and I. Nephew also thought that was hilarious. He was three at the time.
I also fried hash browns and made nests of them. The nephew ate anything I put in the hashbrown nests.
I gave the following explanation to the nephew: kids do not like the same stuff as adults because their tastebuds are not fully developed and they can not taste everything adults can. As your tastebuds get older you will be able to taste more stuff and will like more things. You need to try one bite of stuff you do not like to find out if your tastebuds are ready for it yet. If not, you do not need to eat more of it yet. He agreed that he would try that.
We did that and every so often he would announce that his tastebuds were ready for a new food and eat more of it.
