Malnutrition

[bednobs]

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?

[tamborine]

See your gp, I know some tots with rickets recently.

[choux]

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.

[ummmm]

My daughter has a very limited diet for a while. She more or less lived off ham sandwiches. Now she eats everything except curry and cake.

[Hopkirk]

She doesn't eat cake Ummmm?

There's something very wrong with her.

[ummmm]

Nope...never has. I bought her a birthday cake when she was little and she hated it and has never eaten cake since.

[mikey4444]

I too, think not liking cake is a bit odd.

All cakes taste different, with different "textures", so to dislike such a wide range of different flavours doesn't make any sense.

What kind of cake does she not like and why ?

[ummmm]

All cakes. She just doesn't eat them. It started with a birthday cake I assume she found really dry and has dismissed cakes ever since.

She'll eat other types of desserts.

[mikey4444]

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.

[albaqwerty]

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 :-)

[ummmm]

Fruit/veg is different though. She eats all fruit and veg so I've never had the urge to encourage her to eat cake. Of all the things a kid refuses to eat...cake isn't really important.

I don't really eat cakes either.

[ummmm]

My granddad ate either KFC or Chinese every single day for as long as I could remember. He only started eating other stuff when he had no one to send to pick them up. That used to be my job...What he ordered never varied either.

[mikey4444]

All these cake-haters coming out of the closet !

[albaqwerty]

lol Mikey, I'm more savoury than sweet.

My 3 make up for it, big style!

[ummmm]

I'm a jelly and ice cream type :-)

Sorry to go off track bednobs...When I spoke to the health visitor regarding my daughters diet she was unconcerned. She said you'd be surprised what nutrients that are taking in from what seems such a small amount.

[Mamyalynne]

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.

[mikey4444]

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.

[ummmm]

They can only control you if you let them. I've never made a fuss about food. Mine have only ever had two options. Eat the food put in front of you or have a sandwich. No other options, no biscuits, sweets, crisps etc...

[mikey4444]

Good for you Ummm....no cake either then !

[ummmm]

I never bought crisps, biscuits etc so they were never in the house. That was my dads job so they only ever got treats at the weekend.

[Mamyalynne]

Well your niece is now a grown woman, her life her choice - she may well have an issue but we must be careful of thinking that logic applies to Bednobs daughter too.
Sorry Bednobs.