What can you do to make your child eat????

Question

My 10 year old son wont eat and I have no idea how to make him eat. He hasn't eaten in a week. Should I force it down his throat so he wont die or should I just let him die?????

Answer 1

Why not get him involved in the actual meal preparation, as a fun activity?

Here are some recipes especially for kids to make for themselves, I suggest you copy & print this and then ask him which ones he would like to have a go at making.... then he will be happy to eat his own handiwork.

I have included "Gross meals" recipes that a 10 year old boy would think are fantastic when you read out the names......


Octopus Dogs

6 Hot dogs
6 Hot dog buns
1 cn Chili

About 1" from one end of a hot dog, start a slit in the hot dog that goes vertically to the other end. Turn a quarter turn and make another slit. Keep making slits until you have eight "legs" for the hot dog. Boil and the hot dog will look like an octopus. Serve with head up and legs spread out over an opened hot dog bun that has chili on it.


Peanut Butter Caterpillars

Banana
Grape
2 tb Peanut Butter

Peel and slice a banana. Spread slices with peanut or sesame butter and connect the slices. Add a grape up front for the head ("gluing" with more peanut butter.)

Potato Pups

8 Hot dogs
2 c Mashed potatoes
1/2 ts Dry mustard

Split hot dogs the long way not quite all the way through. Fill split opening with mashed potatoes mixed with dry mustard. Sprinkle the top with paprika. Bake in 375 degree oven for about 15 minutes or until heated through and slightly browned on top. Can also be topped with some grated cheese (cheddar or parmesan).

Rudolph the Reindeer

1/4 c Peanut butter; creamy
2 sl Whole wheat bread
16 Raisins
4 Cherries
16 Pretzels; twist style

Spread peanut butter on bread slices and cut each slice into four triangles. Turn triangles so point is down, then place two raisins in center for eyes. Cut cherry in half and place one half at bottom
point for nose. Break twist pretzels to make antlers and place at upper two corners. Variation: Turn pretzel down near nose to make cats with whiskers.

Apple Pancakes

1 c Whole wheat flour
1 c White enriched flour
1/2 ts Salt
1 tb Brown sugar
1 3/4 c Milk
2 Eggs
2 Apples, diced

Mix together dry ingredients. Add liquid ingredients; mix well, Add diced apples. Mix together. Bake on a hot greased skillet.



Brunch Pizza

1/2 lb Boiled Ham, sliced
8 oz Part Skim Mozzarella Cheese, grated
2 Eggs
1/4 c Low-fat Milk
pn Dried Oregano
Pizza Crust, prepared or homemade

Pat the pizza dough out on a 13- by 9-inch pan, baking, sheet or a round pizza pan. Cut the ham into strips and put them on the dough. Sprinkle on the cheese. Combine the eggs and milk in a bowl and beat to blend. Pour the eggs over the dough and sprinkle on the oregano. Bake in a 375-degree oven for 20 to 30 minutes.

Caramel French Toast

1 c Brown sugar
1/2 c Butter
2 tb Corn syrup
12 Sl Sandwich bread
6 Egg; beaten
1 1/2 c Milk
1 ts Vanilla
1/4 ts Salt

Combine sugar, butter, and corn syrup in a small saucepan; cook over medium heat until thickened, stirring constantly. Pour syrup mixture into a 13x9x2-in baking dish. Place 6 slices of bread on top of syrup mixture. Top with remaining 6 slices of bread. Combine eggs, milk, vanilla, and salt, stirring until blended. Pour egg mixture evenly over bread slices. Cover and chill 8 hours. Bake, uncovered, at 350 degrees F. for 40 to 45 minutes or until lightly browned. Serve immediately. Yield: 6 servings.


Chilaquiles

1 Doz corn tortillas, several days old
1 c Onions, chopped
2 Cloves garlic, pressed or 1/4 tsp garlic powder
2 ts Chili powder
1 ts Cumin powder
1 1/2 c Lowfat cottage cheese
1 1/2 c Crushed tomatoes
6 oz Grated jack or Cheddar cheese
Salt to taste
1 tb Oil

Cut tortillas into wedges or tear into strips. Saute onions in oil for 5 min. (A non-stick or cast iron skillet that's ovenproof is ideal for this.)
Add tortilla pieces, chili powder, garlic, cumin and salt. Toss until the tortilla pieces are wilted. Puree cottage cheese and tomatoes in blender until smooth. Stir gently into tortilla pieces. Sprinkle with grated cheese. Bake at 350 degrees F for about 20 min.


Crunchy French Toast

1 Egg
1/3 c Milk
2 ts Sugar
1/4 ts Cinnamon
1/2 c Flaked coconut
1/3 c Crushed corn flakes
3 tb Butter
4 Slices of white bread

Blend egg, milk, sugar and cinnamon. Mix coconut and cornflakes. Heat butter in a skillet over medium heat. Dip bread in egg mixture, then in corn flakes mixture. Brown in skillet until light golden on both sides, turning once. Serve with maple syrup.



Gross But Fun Recipes that kids his age would think were fantastic - especially the names of the meals.... YUCK!

Boogers On A Stick

1 jar cheeze whiz - 8 oz.
green food coloring
25 pretzel sticks
waxed paper
1 long handled spoon
platter

Melt the cheeze whiz in the microwave or on top of the stove, according to directions on the jar. Allow the cheese to cool slightly in the jar. Using a long handled spoon, carefully stir about three drops of green food coloring into the warm cheese, using just enough to turn the cheese a delicate snot green. To form boogers: Dip and twist the tip of each pretzel stick into the cheese, lift out, wait twenty seconds, then dip again. When cheese lumps reach an appealingly boogerish size, set pretzels, booger down, onto a sheet of waxed paper. Allow finished boogers on a stick to cool at room temperature for ten minutes or until cheese is firm. Gently pull boogers off waxed paper and arrange on a serving platter. Serves 5 to 6 booger buddies.


Brain Cell Salad

1 pk (6 oz) blueberry jello mix
1 ct (16 oz) small curd cottage
Cheese
1 cn (16 1/2oz) can blueberries In syrup -=OR=- 3/4 c Frozen blueberries, thawed
Blue food coloring
--TOOLS--
2 Mixing bowls
cn Opener
Spoon
6 Salad plates

With an adult's help, prepare jello according to package directions. Chill 4-5 hours or until firm. Scoop cottage cheese into a bowl. Drain and set aside the syrup from the blueberries. Add the berries to the cottage cheese and mix well. Add three drops of food coloring to turn the cottage cheese a nice grayish color when blended.

To serve salad, place a few spoonfuls of firm gelatin, (congealed brain fluid), onto individual serving plates. Top with a scoop of cottage cheese (brain tissue) mixture and serve. Serves 6 psycho surgeons.


Brains on the Half Skull

2 md Potatoes
8 oz Thin Spaghetti
14 oz Spaghetti sauce

Preheat the oven to 400 degrees. Wash the potatoes and cut them in half crosswise. Place the potatoes cut side up on a baking pan and bake for 40 minutes. While the potatoes bake, prepare the spaghetti in a medium sized pot according to the directions on the package. Then carefully drain the cooked spaghetti in a colander over the sink. A few minutes before the potatoes are ready, begin to heat the sauce (blood) in a small pot. Remove the potatoes from the oven, and scoop out
the insides of the potatoes. You won't need the insides for this recipe, the empty shells will serve as the skulls. When the sauce begins to boil, remove it from the heat and combine it with the cooked spaghetti to make brains. Put a scoop of bloody brains in each skull.


Cat Litter Casserole

1 c Bisquick
1 c Shredded Cheddar cheese
1 lb Ground beef, turkey or pork
Sausage
---TO MAKE LITTER---
2 c Long grain rice
3 3/4 c Water
2 ts Salt
2 tb Butter or margarine
--TOOLS--
lg Mixing bowl
Rectangular baking pan
Deep saucepan with lid
Fork
Paper towels
lg Spoon
Stainless steel pooper scooper

To make dumps: With an adult's help, preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Using clean hands, mix together the dump ingredients in a large bowl. Mold pieces of this mixture into various size/shape dumps.
Place so they don't touch each other in an ungreased baking pan. Use two if they don't all fit. With an adult's help, bake the dumps for about 20 minutes or until they are all brown, firm and slightly crusty. While the meat cooks, put all four litter ingredients into a large saucepan. Then, with an adult's help, heat on high until the water comes to a boil. Stir, turn heat to low and cover the pan. Simmer without lifting the cover for fourteen minutes. With an adult's help, remove the saucepan from the stove and carefully (to avoid having your face
melted away by the steam), lift off the cover. Break apart, or "fluff" the rice with a fork and set pan aside. When dumps are done, carefully transfer them onto paper towels to drain. Spoon the rice and dumps into the now empty baking pan, leaving some dumps partially uncovered, the way Kitty does when he/she is in a hurry. Serves 8-10 litterbox lovers. Use pooper scooper to serve.



Chicken Pox Pancakes

Strawberries
Pancake mix
Bananas
Powdered sugar
--TOOLS--
Knife
Cutting board
Mixing bowl
lg Flat skillet
Spatula
Plates

With an adult's help, chop the berries into small chunks, allowing one or two per pancake face. Set aside. With an adult's help, prepare the pancake mix according to package directions. When the pancakes are done, place each serving in a stack on a separate plate. For every two stacks of pancakes, you need to peel one banana. Carefully slice off the two ends and put one on top of each stack for a nose. Then cut two thin slices from each end for eyes. Then cut banana in half for a long curved mouth. Arrange the strawberry chunk chicken pox all around each face. Use clean fingers to drop a pinch of powdered sugar on each pox for a tasty bit of pus. Serves as many little polka dotted people as your heart desires.


Hairball Salad with Saliva Dressing

1 lg Ripe avocado
2 c Alfalfa sprouts
5 lg To 6 carrots, washed peeled and grated
Italian dressing
--TOOLS--
Paring knife
Spoon
Mixing bowl
Fork
Carrot peeler
Grater
4 Salad bowls

With an adults help, cut avocado in half. Use a spoon to scoop out the pit. Scoop avocado out of the shell and put in the bowl. Add sprouts to the avocado meat. Mash with a fork. It is ok to leave some lumps. Set the mixture aside. Divide the grated carrots among the four salad bowls. Using your clean fingers and a spoon, make walnut size hairballs from the avocado mixture and arrange them on top of the grated carrots. Pour Italian "saliva" dressing over hairballs and serve.
Serves 4 cat fanciers. Sicko serving suggestion: Squeeze ribbons of chocolate icing "hairball" medicine out of a paper cone onto the backs of your guests hands to be licked off for dessert.


Worm Burgers

1 1/2 c Mung bean sprouts
1 lb Ground beef
1 Egg
Salt and pepper to taste
Mayonnaise
Ketchup
6 Hamburger buns
--TOOLS--
Mixing bowl
lg Frying pan
Spatula
Aluminum foil
Platter

Wash sprout (worms) with warm water. Using clean hands, mix one cup of the sprouts, the ground beef and the raw egg together in a bowl. Reserve the remaining srpouts until later. Form burgers into six patties. Place in fry pan and srpinkle with salt and pepper. With an adult's help, cook on medium heat until they are well browned underneath. Carefully turn the patties. Season again and cook until the second side is well browned. Place on open buns and serve with the worms sprinkled on top as a garnish. Don't forget the pus and blood. Serves 6 worm slurpers.

Sicko serving suggestion: Use a clean hole puncher to punch holes in lettuce garnish.


http://www.cafehobson.com/mediterranean-foods-mediterranean-recipes-directory.html

http://free-toddlers-activity-and-discipline-guide.com KIDS RECIPES section

Answer 2

First you need to consult with a physician to make sure he is physically and mentally okay with no eating disorders eg bulimia/anerexia (guys have it too!). If he does have a eating disorder work with health professionals to help your son battle it. If he checks out healthy don't force him to eat. It will become a bigger battle he will always win . Don't say anything to him about eating. Just eat meals with the other members of the household as usual. It wouldn't hurt to serve some things your son has liked in the past but don't invite him to eat. Getting whiffs of it may stir his appetite possibly. If he asks to eat don't make a big deal of it. Tell him to get a plate and serve himself. Don't give him snacks in lieu of food. If he eats he may have whatever snacks the family has but again don't make a big deal of it. If you play it down He'll soon come around don't worry. Check out John Rosemonds website for some good advice on the subject.

Answer 3

when you say he won't eat is it a fear thing or he doesn't eat healthy food? does he drink milk? if he does this is a great way of introducing fruit to his diet as you can add any thing to milk. has he been shopping with you and been able to pick what he thinks he wants to eat? get him involved in preparing meals so he can touch smell and even taste food as he's helping i would take him to the docs though as a 10yr should love food even if it's just french fries. just try little and often and don't loose your temper as this will make him stronger and he won't eat as this is the one thing he can control in his life GOOD LUCK i hope you get this sorted soon

Answer 4

its impossible for a child to willingly go an entire week without eating anything.

If he truely has then he has a serious disorder and should see the doctor.

Some children will starve themselves for 2-3 days at most, but eventually their will breaks and they eat whatever mom makes for them. but generally refusal to eat is associated with toddlers, not tweens.

It sounds like he has a serious medical problem and should have seen the doctor a few days ago.

Answer 5

you should first find what's your sons cause for not eating is,it might be a social/medical problem,u can find out from your doctor.

Answer 6

I thought you had a ten year old daugter who loves carrots. You got a sick family