Picky Eaters

We all have Picky Foods.

Here are mine

But I'm not talking about picky foods.

I'm talking about picky eaters.

I'm sure everyone knows one or maybe is one.

I have one true picky eater.

What I mean by that is:

She's always been this way, even as a baby.

The only veggies she'd eat as a baby were Sweet Potatoes.

It was so bad that her skin started turning orange.

I asked the doctor about it, because, how does a baby know?

How does she know she doesn't like something, unless she tries it, right?

His answer?

"That attitude will take her far in life."

Great.

What do I do in the meantime?

Now, 8 years later,

the doctor suggested maybe she is allergic to Wheat because of her poor eating habits.

What?

I asked what to do when she was little.

Because her diet consists of mostly carbs, she might have developed this alergicness.

(is that a word?)

So she has an itchy scalp.

We live in the frozen tundra.

Some people get itchy scalps.

He says it might be the start of worse things to come.

She eats fruit.

She eats 2 vegetables...

corn and potatoes

(sometimes and yes, I know they are only the starchy ones)

Oh, and once in a while, she will have one piece of cooked broccoli.

She loves shrimp.

(of course she loves expensive food)

And sometimes chicken.

but, not always and only a tiny bit.

She loves bread, crackers, yogurt, noodles,milk and peanut butter.

That's about it.

She does now eat hot dogs.

(this is new within the last 6 months)

But no healthy ham or turkey.

My husband and I have argued about what to do about her eating habits for years now.

We've tried everything.

We've tried it his way:

She eats what's on the table and gets nothing else.

We did that last fall for a couple months, but,

then, she started feeling sick around bedtime.

She started feeling like she was dizzy and well...I'm sure it was from low blood sugar.

She would take her one bite that we'd make her do,

but it would literally take her an hour to do that.

seriously, I'm not exaggerating.

We have also tried it my way:

If she doesn't want what we have

(which is most of the time)

She can have peanut butter w/bread

(my mom did that

for me

whenever she made pork chops or roast or steak....

I wasn't much of a meat eater, I'm still not)

This works, and takes the pressure off us to constantly nag her.

But, what doesn't work is the good eaters, then, want peanut butter too.

I always have something on the table that she does like,

like, say some type of bread, or fruit.

The problem is,

she's going to have problems when she gets older.

Isn't she?

You know, most of my pregnancies are pretty much the same

with a few differences,

but with her,

I threw up the most and the longest.

I've tried the hiding things in their food, well, doesn't work,

she doesn't like any sauces.

Noodles plain with lots of butter.

I've tried letting her prepare it,

She loves to do that, but that doesn't trick her into eating it at all.
Now, I want to hear from any of you who have a true picky eater.

What do you do?

I don't want to hear:

"They eat what we put on the table and that's it."

I've been told that many times.

Ya Ya Ya.

YOU DON'T HAVE A TRUE PICKY EATER.

Our other children eat what is served.

Am I the only one who gets this?

There has to be someone out there who goes through what we do.

I want to hear from you.