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Malnutrition
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My daughter doesn't eat very well, she's not particularly adventurous with food and dislikes various textures. she has an un-varied diet. She wont take vitamin tablets
is there anything you can buy that's tasteless (or can be hidden in food/drink) that has iron and various other minerals and vitamins in?
is there anything you can buy that's tasteless (or can be hidden in food/drink) that has iron and various other minerals and vitamins in?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.This brings to mind that dreadful northern, kitchen sink drama with Alfred Marks (Spring and Port Wine?)where the daughter won't eat her meal (kippers?) so the father decrees that the kippers will be served to her for every ensuing meal until she eats them. Heaven forbid. I am not saying that you would try the same thing, bednobs. I am hoping this is just a stage which your daughter will grow out of. Wish you well with it all.
We had the same type of irrational behaviour with one of my nieces, who decided that she didn't like any fruit, just because she tried some grapefruit when she was little and didn't like it.
The trouble is, she is now in the late 20's and still won't eat any fruit whatsoever, despite all fruits be wildly different in every way that you can think of.
The trouble is, she is now in the late 20's and still won't eat any fruit whatsoever, despite all fruits be wildly different in every way that you can think of.
Bednobs, are you adventurous with your food?
Just asking as I occasionally hear on the cooking programmes that wee ones will pick up on their parents tastes?
Do you encourage her to cook? Well, not cook at that age, but to help in the prep of dinners?
Younger alba loathes mushrooms with a passion and I'm not a great fan of cakes either :-)
Just asking as I occasionally hear on the cooking programmes that wee ones will pick up on their parents tastes?
Do you encourage her to cook? Well, not cook at that age, but to help in the prep of dinners?
Younger alba loathes mushrooms with a passion and I'm not a great fan of cakes either :-)
I'd far rather have savoury snacks than sweet ones - always been the same.
A dislike of a given food be it taste or texture only appears irrational if you don't share that dislike.
Quite easy to omit mushrooms or dark greens for example from a child's diet without making a fuss.
If they are well and active and get some decent daylight they'll be fine.
A dislike of a given food be it taste or texture only appears irrational if you don't share that dislike.
Quite easy to omit mushrooms or dark greens for example from a child's diet without making a fuss.
If they are well and active and get some decent daylight they'll be fine.
Mamy....not liking all fruits because they are called fruits IS irrational.
My niece will eat tomatoes, but we are afraid of telling her that they fruit not veg, just in case she adds another foodstuff to here hate-list. She briefly liked melon when she was much younger, because she thought it was a vegetable, but was put off when she found it was really a fruit.
In my experience, children develop these strange eating phobias as a way of controlling adults. The same niece spent the ages of 7-8 only eating baked beans, until my brother stepped in and took control over his wife's "anything for a quite life" attitude.
My niece will eat tomatoes, but we are afraid of telling her that they fruit not veg, just in case she adds another foodstuff to here hate-list. She briefly liked melon when she was much younger, because she thought it was a vegetable, but was put off when she found it was really a fruit.
In my experience, children develop these strange eating phobias as a way of controlling adults. The same niece spent the ages of 7-8 only eating baked beans, until my brother stepped in and took control over his wife's "anything for a quite life" attitude.