my son wont eat proper meals any tips ?

Question

he will not eat fruit or veg in any way shape or form iv tried just about everything he dont eat sweets unless he has eaten hes dinner he has a small drink with hes meals but he drinks alot between meals

Answer 1

How about making him eat it?? That's how kids become picky people. The parents let the kids tell them what to do. Don't give him anything else to eat until he finishes his veggies. Trust me, he'll get hungry and realize that you're not backing down and eat what you want him to eat. Good luck

Answer 2

If he's drinking a lot of milk between meals he won't be hungry for his solids, so you could try cutting that down.
My husband disagrees with this, but if my son won't eat I let him play with a small toy and once engrossed I manage to get the food into him almost without him noticing. As another correspondent already said, if you make a big deal of it he'll get self-conscious about it and that'll make things worse. As much as possible we try to have our son sitting at the table with us and we eat with him ( even if we're only having a snack during his dinner time). That way he doesn't feel that the spotlight is on him.
My son's not keen on fruit on its own, so to get his vitamin c I sometimes get tropical fruit juice and thicken it with baby rice for dessert. I also soak organic dried mango (no preservatives added) and poach it fo 4 mins, then whizz it up, then freeze it in an ice cube tray. Then as required I defrost a brick, add a small amount of water and baby rice and sometimes some juice, he absolutely loves it but won't touch raw mango. I always give him a fruit or yoghurt based dessert after a meal whether he's finished his mains or not, as I think it's better than nothing.
Heap praise on him when he does eat something you want him to eat though, but don't make a fuss if he doesn't.

Answer 3

Best way is to try and hide the veg in with your food. I got my daughter to eat veg but covering it in ketchup as she loves the stuff. I gradually reduced the amount of sauce and now she has a little dollop next to her veg and still eats the veg!!

I also get sausages that are made with vegetables as well as meat. She does not know she is eating vegetables!! Neat little trick!!

She is only allowed one cup of juice at mealtimes and either milk or water during the day. She can have as much of that as she likes. But I see you do ok in that department.
Hope things go ok with the veg. If you get desperate you could always get your gp to refer you to a dietician who may be able to give you better advice.

Answer 4

stop giving him plenty milk for a start up. supply him water extremely or a minimum of water down his milk. it relatively is now commonplace for him to be so hungry. while it contains starting to be obese, that's greater to do with what he eats, no longer how plenty. the considerable difficulty is that the nutrition he eats is powerful for him. evade goodies and something this is presented in a packet and have a look at to offer him as plenty sparkling nutrition like fruit and vegetables as a possibility. If he's an lively toddler, he will have not have been given any problem burning this off. Processed and packaged ingredients contain a rather good variety of pointless ingredients, and little or no nutritional fee, and whilst it relatively is high quality now and then, it relatively is going to no longer make up the time-honored public of his weight-alleviation plan. stable success!

Answer 5

Make funny faces etc out of fruit and veg or try fruit and veg smoothies, they are very healthy and taste good too. Or give him treats for example a new comic if he is a good boy and eats his fruit and veg. I hope this helps in some way!

Answer 6

My kids love fruit and veg and always have they would rather have a salad over sweets,you could try letting him help you make something like a pizza if he is old enough,hopefully he will want to make it colourfull and use as much veg as he can if not try grating veg into a bollignase you can hide all sorts in that also try dipping bananas in chocolate then into hundreds and thousands and put in freezer and have icelollys.Hope this helps!

Answer 7

This is going to sound very old school, but just dont make a big deal about it. Distract him between meals with activities, then when hes hungry, put a meal in front of him, and if he doesnt eat it, offer nothing else. But DONT SEEM BOTHERED. dont even give the impression that you have noticed whether or not hes eaten it. He isnt going to starve himself to death.

Answer 8

Well, if he doesn't want to eat what you've made then maybe you should tell him he won't eat at all. Let him skip a meal without any snacks or anything and he'll get hungry enough by the time the next one comes around to eat just about anything you give him. It may sound mean but you need to get him to eat good things and not always want the junk food.

Answer 9

How old is your son? I have a 4 year old who doesnt eat properly either, she will not touch vegetable at all! I tried hiding them in her food but she was too smart for that too, so i left her to it. Made sure she drunk enough and didnt eat too many sweets, then one day about 3 months ago she ASKED to try some parsnips, carrots and even cabbage! Now she cant get enough! I realised that if you just leave them to it (keep offering them) eventually they come around!

Answer 10

I find that as a general rule of human nature that the more you force someone to do something, the more adverse they will be to doing it. It is called free will. If he doesn't want to eat anything, I am sure he will eat the vegies before he starves. everything tastes better when you are hungry anyways and also it feels much better as a child to make that decision yourself to eat that yukkie vegie/ fruit / whatever instead of having someone force it down your throat. My husband was forced to eat vegies as a child and he is 32 now and has just started to enjoy them now, just because noone is telling him he HAS to eat them.. Good luck x