[frizzle]

I was toying with where I should do this, I hope no-one mind that I have gone for maximum exposure rather than popping it into recipes, special needs or childrens forums.

My little boy is 5 and has autism. We have had a very rough road with his eating, he has self restricted to the point of only eating about 5 different foods but now we have had a breakthrough where he will put a new food in his mouth to try. This has taken us 2 years mind you of persistence and not giving up.

So I am at a loss what to give him. He gags on casseroles and mixed dishes still so I am looking at what other kids like to eat. How do you prepare and present vegies so they will eat them? I grew up on a farm with meat and 3 veg which is not all that appealing so I am after some different ideas.

At the moment he will eat a homemade potato wedge and will put some corn kernels, beans and carrots in his mouth, although the carrots do make him gag still.

Thanks

[.Jerry.]

I'm not going to be much help as my daughter has a restricted diet too.

However, she will eat broccoli. Strange. We always pretended they were trees and were were dinosaurs eating them, roaring as we did it. She has retained her love for broccoli.

Maybe you could try sweet potato or pumpkin cut into wedges as well. Perhaps with a dipping sauce he already loves.

Texture may be more of a big deal for him than taste. For my daughter it is as she has oral sensory issues.

[tamjk]

My older two will eat
Broccoli- raw not cooked
onion- raw not cooked
peas-raw and in the pod, not cooked
celery only if dipped in sour cream for the oldest, any way for DD
turnips, again only raw

sweet potato if in chip form
plain potatoes mashed or in chip form.

They will NOT eat any of those foods if put on a plate with other things, they have to be served a single piece at a time. They also prefer to eat standing up. Drives me spare, I can only imagine how much worse it would be with a child with actual sensory issues and not just normal childhood fussiness.

[~sydblue~]

The only thing DD13 will not eat is plain tomato. She will eat all other fruits and veges.

DD8 only has a problem with plain boiled potato. She will eat anything else, including mashed potato.

[Mumma Franklin]

Will he eat hot chips if so make your own and also do sweet potato and carrot cut like fries in the oven!

If he likes spaghetti pasta use a peeler and do some long strips of carrot and sweet potato to cook with it and tell him it's orange pasta.

[Excentrique]

My pair both like carrot sticks, just raw, or cooked with honey over them.

DS likes his broccoli and his cauliflower.

They both love the way my mum cooks pumpkin, boiled down until it is very soft and then mashed. Jap ones work best.

Frozen peas is another hit.

[**Xena**]

My kids love frozen corn and raw carrot. They will eat most veg but those two they actually love.

[Pinky101]

Oven roasted tomatoes ( has gone off raw ones but loves them roasted)
Sweet potato wedges/ chips
Roast pumpkin
Cauliflower
Raw or cooked carrot sticks

[**Mel**]

She can't stand tomato, loves cucumber and carrot and mushrooms

Will eat broccoli on occasion

Her favourite lunch is rice and vegetables
- one of those 90sec rice packets mixed with the frozen steam single serve vegetable packets I try and at least add tuna, but she turns her nose up lol

[Swahili]

Stir fried veggies such as carrot, snow peas, baby corn and green beans always go down well here.