CynthiaWVirginia
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My ex is an Aspie, and my son was diagnosed with "early infantile autism." Mealtime was a nightmare. My son...literally starved himself, we're talking not even taking one single bite...when I didn't serve food he thought was appropriate. This included how the sandwitch was cut. He lost so much weight he looked like a toothpick, and so I said screw all the advice about training him to eat right...and I got sneaky instead. Sneaky worked for me.
From a Venesuelan aunt, I learned how to peel a small carrot, put it into a blender with milk then put this through a strainer and add a little sugar. I called it orange milk, and my kid drank it. My son would never eat cooked broccoli, but served raw in little florettes dipped in ranch dressing, they became snow capped little trees and he ate those.
I made a huge tray of lasagne, and mixed frozen chopped spinach up with the meat and my son never noticed. I put blackstrap molasses in his hot cereal (half a teaspoon), some wheat germ and honey in his chunky peanut butter, and baked bread and cakes and made pasta from scratch. The breads sometimes had tomato paste, the chocolate cake was sometimes a recipe from my aunt in Ohio...that had grated zucchini in it, and the pasta sometimes had tomato paste or spinach.
I wish I had had more recipes. Mealtime should be enjoyable, and not a time to have one's stomach tied up in knots with all the b*tching and whining about ucky food. With kids, I will put up to one small spoon full of something they don't enjoy on their plate. Palates grow up over time, and there is no need to turn dinnertime into an unpleasant war zone.
One ploy I used on my son...mom had also used on us. Family traditions, aren't they grand?  I bought something fancy and did not serve him any. I ate it like it was chocolate cake (I love asparagus, or that Green Giant peas/rice/mushrooms in butter sauce)...when he asked if I was going to make him eat any I did what my mother did, I said, "No, this is much too expensive to share with children. You won't like it until you are more grown up. Believe me, you wouldn't like this." After a few weeks or months...the child is pleading with the parent to try just a little bit, and promising not to waste it, lol. I did the same thing with pepper and steak sauce.
My aunt also told me to grind up some veggies and mix them into meatballs. I also got him used to snacking on carrot sticks and celery sticks during the day so if I made chicken and dumplings, it wouldn't matter if I served a hot vegetable with dinner or not. He also had homemade popsicles...carrot juice is easy to mix in with fruit juices and frozen. Some popsicles were made with milk and yogurt and fruit like banana or strawberry. I didn't buy storebought, with all those weird ingredients thrown in.
Thanks for letting us know about this book, Toppingfrmbottom. I wrote it down and plan to buy it as soon as I'm not too broke.
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