My son is such a picky eatter! Whenever he comes home from school he says he's starving but won't eat anything
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Take your picky eater grocery shopping and let him choose what he wants to eat. Get him involved in cooking the family meal. Have cut up veggies (carrots, cucumbers) and fruit on the table when he gets home. He may just start munching without realizing it. I try to have a couple veggies, bread, and salad at every dinner. That way, if my picky eaters don't like the main dish, they can still find something to eat on the table. And don't comment or judge or get angry. His hunger is his problem, not yours. (yes you have to offer your children food, but it's not your problem if they turn up their nose at it.) Just feel sad for him and he will start thinking about solving his problem himself.
He'll eat when he's hungry enough!
he's depressed.
HE'S NOT THAT HUNGRY IF HE WON'T EAT ANYTHING, HE'S JUST BORED!
OMG.
I am sooooooo with you.
My son does like burritos, pizza rolls, and he will eat an occasional banana.
I feel for you girl!
cez
What does he like? Have you tried letting him make his own food? Kids can appreciate food more when they are involved in making it. Have you asked him what he would like to eat?
make it fun for him, something to dip in might help, caramel with apples, peanut butter, dressing, honey, frosting or peanut butter on graham crackers. :o)
if you give in and cook him whatever the hell he wants then hes gonna be a REAL pain in the asss later. b like "well ill make this this or this and if you dont want it, make your own food"
Change things around. Give him a sliced up apple, or a bowl of cereal,or a deli sandwich. Maybe he just doesn't (although it's odd) want junk food now.
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check the menu of their school... just to make sure he's not gonna be eating the same thing when he gets home.. ask him of what he wants to eat.. try different kind of snacks.. check www.kraftfoods.com for some easy snacks to make.. and take him grocery shopping with you.. maybe he'll pick up something that he wants, of course upon your approval of the nutritional values..
have the same problem.got a fridge and cupboards full of food but he says there is nothing good to eat...i buy fruit like bananas , apples and oranges.he eventually grabs one of those because it is a quick easy snack
Maybe he is just tired of them. Try new stuff. Also, he may be tired of heated up frozen stuff. Maybe something like celery and peanut butter? Not saying he should eat healthier but that stuff is pretty good. Or maybe something like a quesadilla with pieces of chicken in it (Costco has some great chicken with lime flavoring). If you ask him what he wants he'll probably just reply with "Iono."
Tell him to eat what is in front of him and if he doesn't then he doesn't get anything else, i guarantee he will get hungry enough eventually.
Oh and pizza and nuggets is a bad thing to feed your child anyway, unless of course you make a healthy pizza yourself.
My kids love fruit salad as a snack. Try it with some frozen yogurt its yummy
ask him what he ate at school.
ask the school to send home a lunch menu have him circle the lunches he likes and what he doesnt like.
My son is the same way and i used to worry that he was just throwing the food away,turns out he likes all kinds of foods i was not aware of,like chicken fried steak and gravy. on the plus side i will get him a lunch or a peanut butter sandwich and applesauce for the days he doesnt like lunch.
this gave me better ideas on what to buy at home,so he didnt want McDonalds all the time.
when I make chicken nuggets at home I put spaghetti sauce and mozzarella cheese and put it into the oven until the cheese melts and then I make spaghetti and have been doing this for years and my kids love it. my kids where told that they had to eat what was on the table or don't eat. I was also brought up that way. in a restaurant you can order what you want but your kitchen is not a restaurant
hit him until he eat it and cry lolz he asked for it so eat it.
If he is starving, an apple is best until dinner.
well ask him what he wants to eat or it could just be that hes going through a faze
I always remember going away for a weekend with a bunch of guys on our team.
We were teenagers. Most of the guys were from families with 1 or 2 kids. A lot of them were like your kid. Hates that, won't eat this, has to be cooked a special way and on and on.
One of the guys was from a poorer family of 13 kids.
He would eat everything and was very pleased to eat everybody else's meal also.
Moral of the story...most kids today are spoiled.
You shouldn't spoil him. Tell him to eat whatever you made because he's not at a restaurant. My mom used to yell at us if we complained about the food she made, so we just ate whatever was on the table and we turned out fine. Parents these days are way too soft.
yea, from what I've heard, I agree with some of the above, kids are almost perfect machines physically, so their little bodies tell them when they need to eat, and even when they need to eat vegetables and crap food like that. I believe kids should not be forced to eat anything, vegetables included, as their taste buds are not so complex as an adults so some things really taste almost toxic to them. When they say they don't want it, they really mean it, they don't want it. Just don't let them get away with eating a bunch of junk food later.
Ask him first what he feels like eating. If he won't eat try and entice him with different foods other than what you had mentioned. Some children like healthy foods.
He'll eat when he gets those "missed-meal" cramps. let it go.
He is going through a "phase". Besides chicken nuggets and pizza aren't really nutritious as a steady diet. Fast food places are the wrong place to get wholesome nutrious meals. Put food on the table if he doesn't eat he doesn't eat. Or you can start teaching him to cook (as well as clean up) and tell him to fix (and clean up after)his own meals.
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