My 6 year old was a very picky eater growing up. She ate so little and no variety…just chicken! I started giving her a small quanitities of all food groups several times a day. There was some wasting and tantrums but now, she’s much better and eats almost everything. It took a great deal of consistency and persistency.
Share your stories and tell us how you cope with picky eaters.
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Both of my kids (6.5 years and 3 years old) Mashallah pretty much eat everything from veggies to meat (chicken/goat/beef) and from daaal to every kind of bread. Thanks mainly to their mom who invested lot of her time into this. I my self is a picky eater and hence was not in moral position to ask kids to eat everything :)
PS: name of our 3 years old princes is "broccoli ki dushman" ..she just loves green veggies and salad!
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My daughters also love all kinds fruits and vegetables...they snack on raw veggies with dip which is awesome I think!
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My little cousin wouldn't eat anything 'green', 'red', 'yellow' and 'orange'. I once tried to feed him 'black' food, but he wouldnt have it.
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haha! What’s black food… burnt gosht or charred bbq chicken 
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Burnt anything really. I also told him and his sisters that all fishfingers were Nemo. They dont eat fishfingers anymore! Kids can't take jokes...
** I also told him and his sisters that all fishfingers were Nemo*. They dont eat fishfingers anymore! **Kids can't take jokes..*.
and you mentioned that you teach little kids ..
o man I am so happy you are not my kid's teacher ..
I wouldnt teach your children about food. I would teach them all about dushmans and how to handle them!
p.s My kids LOVE my sense of humour. LOVE it. 
I was a picky EATER!!!! I wouldn't eat anything!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And everything seemed to have too much mirch in it. THings with nuts or fruity stuff, I just couldn't take....
My mom had to make me eat until I was like 15!! ha ha....And I would eat sooooooooooooooooo slow. It took me four hours to finish a meal, and my mom would be like hurry up with the food!! At dawats I would give all my left overs ( like the half the plate) to my mom to eat and my mom would be like "i'm not the trash can" and then she'd make me sit and finish the whole thing in front of her.....and I would get so mad. One time this uncle was like "let me help you finish it" And I thought he was nicest uncle ever!!!
Now I can eat anytihing. lol
When I was a kid, my mom used to make what i thought was a foul-tasting broccoli saag mush! Overall, I love my mom’s cooking, but this was not one of my favorite dishes and thankfully she’s stopped making it. Anyways, I would devise a variety of strategies on how to deal with broccoli mush.
First, when my mom wasn’t looking, I would squish and smoosh the broccoli together to make it look much **smaller **and lesser. That way my mom would think I was eating it. 
This was one of the first childhood signs of my artistic creativity, lol. Unfortunately, it didn’t work. 
Second, I would ditch the smushed and squished saalan and eat the whole roti. I thought it would fool my mom into thinking that I had made progress. After all, parents always say, “Beta, sari roti khani hai.” Since they never said anything about finishing the salan, I took the statement literally. It was easy. The roti tasted much better than green mush. Needless to say, it didn’t fool my mom,
Third…Since I didn’t have a pet cat to feed the saalan to, I had to rely on the old **wrap it in a tissue and hide under the table method. To do that, I had to make sure my mom wasn’t looking. Then stuff it in a tissue and put it under the table. It required too much work. And…it didn’t work.
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FINALLY…after failing with the above strategies, I realized it was now time to resort to…EMOTIONAL BLACKMAIL. See, my favorite position at the dinning table was one of the head positions. My mom sat on the opposite head of the table. So, due to the seating positions, we both were able to get a good full view of each other. I totally took advantage of this. With the BIGGEST and SADDEST eyes ever, I FORCED myself to STARE at my mom. The first few times, she’d get annoyed and go back to reading the newspaper…but my pitiful imploring magnetic gaze was too STRONG for her to avoid. Looking up at me with such irritation, my would tell me to “Go, jaao, just leave the table!” 
I would quietly pick up my plate and head to the kitchen, resisiting the urge to jump up and down and do cartwheels at my victory.
From then on, my mom seldom makes Brocolli mush…and I am rather proud of my childhood persistence. As the saying goes, “If at first u don’t succeed, try, try, again.”:shoaby:
My 6 year old was a very picky eater growing up. She ate so little and no variety...just chicken! I started giving her a small quanitities of all food groups several times a day. There was some wasting and tantrums but now, she's much better and eats almost everything. It took a great deal of consistency and persistency.
Share your stories and tell us how you cope with picky eaters.
Awww talking about me...Picky eater...Picky in everything.
budhay ho gaay per undaaz naheen gia.
Some kids munh hi naheen lagatay bulkul khuwaah unkay liaay kitna bhi kuch kar lo.
So unkay saath aisa kia meri sister nain.
Buchchay kay samnay cheezain kha kar aah bohat mazay ka hai aur khoob mazay lay lay kar khaya per kafi time laga aur kabhi ya kisi cheez ko buchchay nain chakhnay ki zahmat kar li ya thora bohat kha lia.
Aisay buchchay ziada museebat kartay hain jo munh hi naheen lagatay kisi cheez ko yani sari koshish ko zaya kar detay hain.
Then once my sisters friend found that agar isko poochtay hain ya force kartay hain to naheen khata yay so isko chor dia karo bilkul poocha hi na karo. Few times it worked jub sub kha rahay hon aur us ka bilkul ignore kia aur poocha naheen to.
Abhi bhi wo buchcha bohat kum aur kum hi cheezain khata hai aur apni pasand ki cheezain bhi kum hi khata hai.
My sister left him on her own and provide what he likes so sometimes he eats.
One of her daughter to sirf biryani khati hai sirf aur ub mango flavour ice cream khana shuru kia hai.
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My kids are picky eaters too and so am I. I don't eat vegetable bhujias
(only raw staermed ones or salads), any kind of dhaal, haleem or dahi baray. My son didn't eat chicekn till he was 3 but slowly he started to do it and he hates roti. My daughter loves broccoli and beets and other veggies though.
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Both my kids are picky eaters…I am known as the short order cook amongst friends:bummer:
I have tried giving one of them them the hunger stimulating dawai..periactin..
Sprinkling Calorie enhancer powder on top of her food.
Limiting snacks
Maybe a pint of butter a day may do the job:hmmm:
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I was going to ask if all those things really work. There's a homeopathic appetite stimulator I know of...haven't ordered it though.
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I've tried a few different homeopathic appetite stimulants and none of them had any effect at all. Periactin worked really well but I only use it when my son's weight is really down, like after a sickness. It makes him very tired and can cause bad nightmares.
Something that seems to work well is zinc supplement. I give my son an extra 5 mg/day (its one of those things that can be harmful if you take too much of it so you need to be careful). But I give it to him for about a month, then stop for a month and it seems to have a good appetite boosting effect.
Thats for my eldest. He's the one who would rather starve than eat. Youngest guy is like me, loves to eat (espectially steak lol) and middle son likes to eat - as long as its chicken nuggest or sweets :( I make sure they all eat pretty balanced meals and when I give them something new, I only give them a little bit of it, tell them that they have to at least taste it and when they do, I make the hugest happy-fuss. Its exhausting lol but it works.
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we're a meat eating family but i read something very interesting recently and that made me change our diet completely, first we moved to organic food and start eating more vegis and fruit. Secondly we stopped buying meat from so called halal shops and started to buy it from organic halal farm, it's expensive but very satisfying. I cook meat only twice a week now and save all the leftovers.
We are spending almost same amount of the money for weekly shopping for organic food because we are eating less(moderate), it doesn't mean that we stay hungry, I've noticed there is much barakah in ethically grown food.
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^I know it's a bit off topic.
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No, it's not off topic. Thanks for sharing that.
It is so very important to eat good wholesome pure food. There is barakah in that and the nutrition no doubt is superior.
I've tried a few different homeopathic appetite stimulants and none of them had any effect at all. Periactin worked really well but I only use it when my son's weight is really down, like after a sickness. It makes him very tired and can cause bad nightmares.
Something that seems to work well is zinc supplement. I give my son an extra 5 mg/day (its one of those things that can be harmful if you take too much of it so you need to be careful). But I give it to him for about a month, then stop for a month and it seems to have a good appetite boosting effect.
Thats for my eldest. He's the one who would rather starve than eat. Youngest guy is like me, loves to eat (espectially steak lol) and middle son likes to eat - as long as its chicken nuggest or sweets :( I make sure they all eat pretty balanced meals and when I give them something new, I only give them a little bit of it, tell them that they have to at least taste it and when they do, I make the hugest happy-fuss. Its exhausting lol but it works.
Is periactin available only via prescription? Does it make the kid sleepy and lethargic?
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yes, Nik...its prescription only. And it does make my guy really tired - we only use it when his weight is really down. but it works really well with appetite.