Posted: October 17 2009 at 11:15am | IP Logged

We feel that the most important thing is to avoid it becoming a power struggle, so humor and praise have been our main way of dealing with it.

It looks like your son is only eating finger food -- is that correct?  If so, there might be an issue with utensils, for example the sound they make or the way they feel in the mouth.  Some people have better success with plastic utensils.

Here's a collection of links related to picky eaters on the autism spectrum.  You'll find lots of good tips there:

http://www.autism-pdd.net/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=18317&am p;KW=pickiness

Posted: November 03 2009 at 5:07pm | IP Logged

I had to check the name to make sure the post didn't come from my wife.  Our son refuses to eat veggies, or anything that we might have snuck a veggie into.  We used to sneak veggies into the muffins, but he is getting wise to that.

He will eat fruit, and he will eat the gluten free waffles if we cover them in peanut butter, so that is breakfast.  You an also make the waffles using the gluten free flour if you have a waffle iron.  This also allows you to sneak some veggies into breakfast.

He eats Kix cereal, and sometimes he eats the coconut free yogurt, so that is snacktime.  If he is hungry, he will eat a rice cake with cream cheese on it.

Applegate farms sells a dye-free hotdog, and he will eat it with sweet potato fries or mashed potato, so that is lunch.

for dinner, we are out of ideas.  We usually give him the gluten free pizza, but it has cheese.  Lately, he doesn't eat those either because of the veggies, so dinner is back to fruit.

We would love to hear some ideas.  Our son will not eat soup or rice, and now he won't eat baby food either.  He was actually close to weaning himselt (he is 19 months old) but he has removed so much other food from his diet that if it were not for nursing, he would be losing weight.