Reply #11: how about smoothies? [View All]

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My daughter never ate anything either, but she would drink these yogurt drinks I made for her. I calculated that she was getting more than all the requirements for calcium, protein and other nutrients (I forget now which ones) from these drinks. She drank them all the time and is now at age 7 finally eating almost normally.

I mix 2/3 Straus organic European style whole milk yogurt (this is not a solid yogurt, thus no blender is required, and probably regular kefir might work just as easily) with 1/3 organic pear juice. And I served it in a sippy cup, so she did not see that it was so much yogurt.

She consumed nearly a pint a day of yogurt from age two until about year ago. Now, she still starts her day with this drink, and sometimes ends it with it as well. So, you may try experimenting with high quality drinks of some kind as perhaps some children have trouble actually chewing and sitting still at the table and all of that. My daughter sure had trouble with these things.

Also, for greens she quite luckily fell in love with those seaweed snacks and will eat the sushi wrappers whenever given the chance. This I did not really worry about all this not wanting to eat anything as she was getting a great deal through these drinks and snacks.

Tonight we went to a restaurant with my older sister who is very fussy about manners and she commented on how absolutely delightful my daughter was. And how one never runs into children like this nowadays. So, the fussy dinner stuff does end.

Good luck