Lets make a food list | Autism PDD
I'm sure it's been done before but I thought we should make a list of foods our kids eat. I need some new ideas to try. My son won't eat pasta or rice or hamburger. I think it's texture thing. I thought we should have a soft and hard food list.
Hard
Waffels
Pretzels reg and honey wheat twist
Nature Valley Granola bars
Nilla cookies
Graham crackers
Carmel rice cakes
Pop tarts - blueberry and strawberry, no froasting
Soft
Pancakes
Yogurt
vinilla pudding
Thomas Corn cakes
Oatmeal cookies
Fig Newtons
General
Pizza
Chicken nuggets
french fries
Grilled cheese sandwitch
PB & J Sandwitch
Mom's meatballs
[QUOTE=1 ShyCladBoy]Conner
Breafast~ Eggs, rice milk
Snack~ Puffins cereal, OJ
Lunch~ Hebrew nation Hot dog, chips, Rice milk, or OJ
Snack~ Fruit, peaches, pears, pineapple or
Smoothie/ Protien shake fozen Fruit, rice milk, juice, protein powder
Dinner, rice pasta, tomatoe sauce, mashed potatoes with ground chicken hidden in it, home made French fries, coated in egg whites' makes em crispy, with veggies he won't eat and meat he won't eat, so more friut or puffins are given.
Dinner is the hard one in our house
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What kind of protein powder do you use? Where do you find it? We do smoothies daily and it is the only way to get in the good stuff. His protein intake is getting lower and I wanted to get a protein powder.
crackerscereal
pasta
muffins
cheese
milk
tomato soup (believe it or not--how the h*ll did anything THAT healthy get in here??)
corn, very very very occasionally
apple juice
some types of chicken
hamburgers, sometimes
ribs, sometimes
yogurt (once in a blue moon)
candy...obviously we keep this one to a minimum
Mine will probably be the shortest there is.
Brendon eats round foods.
Jacob eats pasta and meats that we can make him belive are chicken.
Your list is bigger than mine:)
Breakfast: apple juice and occassionally toast or cheese stick,sometimes rice krispies or lucky charms cereal
Lunch: pb&jelly sandwich,hot dog, ham, turkey, cheese,crackers ..any kind of chips, fruit roll ups
Dinner: chicken strip/nuggets, fries, corn on the cob(has to be on the cob!)mac & cheese (michalino's) , fish sticks
dessert: ice cream, popsickle, yogurt..sometimes cake
She wont eat green things or hamburger whatsoever :P
Here's mine, not much variation.
Breakfast: Honey Graham Life Cereal, or Pancakes(Eggo brand) w/ syrup
Lunch: BallPark Bun length hot dog(regular, not all beef-he won't eat these too greasy)cut into circles with the skin peeled off, Utz Ripple Potato Chips(these are Gluten free for anyone who's interested) one Pepperidge Farms Snickerdoodle cookie.
Dinner: (this is so sad, but he's healthy....) Cinnamon Life Cereal or Rice Chex cereal with cut up banannas.
Before Bedtime: 1 small bowl Snyders pretzels(the reg ones) and milk.
Snacks: Banannas, Cheezits(when avail) Teddy Grams, sometimes apple sauce when he's in the mood.
He will also eat Pizza but only once a week, he also likes spaghetti O's without the sauce, same with ABC's and 123's, these are subbed for the hotdog at lunch at times just to change it up a bit. Also plain spaghetti again no sauce.
as far as drinks go, Juicy Juice Apple bannana, or berry or punch.
We have tried to introduce new foods but he is very picky about what he will eat, he is also allergic to peanuts(so I guess the picky part is a good thing) He has never been a child to pick just anything up and put it in his mouth w/o first smelling it and touching his face with it. He will on occasion eat french fries, plain ice cream cones(just the cone) he has eaten ice cream but is not fond of it.
He gets a vitamin supplement every morning in his juice.
oh yeah...almost forgot...he LOVES popcorn!
breakfast: oatmeal, scrambled eggs, apple juice, apples and peanut butter, cold cereal without milk.
Lunch: hot dog on a roll, peanut butter and jelly, spaghetti o's, apples and peanut butter. mac and cheese, ramen noodles.
Dinner: green beans, green beans, green beans, ham, mashed potatoes, spaghetti, hamburger helper, cheese burger, apples and peanut butter
Snacks, Apples and peanut butter, ice cream Doritoes, cheezits.
My Daniel is very picky in his choice of foods (as ALL autistics are
Breakfast: Milk, Toast bread with Marmite (it's like Vegemite... salty, very salty)
Lunch: Rice (we're Asians... staple diet in these parts of the world), Chicken mushroom with oyster sauce, Broccoli, Soup, Orange juice
Dinner: Rice, Fried Chicken (he loves the skin!!), Mushroom, Broccoli, Soup
He doesn't take any other vege EXCEPT BROCCOLI (texture thingy!!) MUSHROOM is part of his staple diet. Meats... preferably chicken.
As BONUS, we changed to a western diet of garlic bread, ham & cheese sandwich, mushroom soup with roast chicken. HE LOVES THEM !!! No need coaxing to eat these unlike the regular meals above.
Breafast~ Eggs, rice milk
Snack~ Puffins cereal, OJ
Lunch~ Hebrew nation Hot dog, chips, Rice milk, or OJ
Snack~ Fruit, peaches, pears, pineapple or
Smoothie/ Protien shake fozen Fruit, rice milk, juice, protein powder
Dinner, rice pasta, tomatoe sauce, mashed potatoes with ground chicken hidden in it, home made French fries, coated in egg whites' makes em crispy, with veggies he won't eat and meat he won't eat, so more friut or puffins are given.
Dinner is the hard one in our house
Alex will eat most anything as long as spaghetti noodles are involved. I have come up with some crazy sauces.
Other than that -- it is slim.
Bacon -- loves it, waffles, grated cheese - only grated!!! Tomatoes and green beans (only out of the can), French fries, apple sauce. Sometimes hotdogs and chicken.
Bread, Bread and Bread. He likes to lick the jelly off a P&J
He will not touch ice cream but, sometimes goes for yogurt.
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Conner
Breafast~ Eggs, rice milk
Snack~ Puffins cereal, OJ
Lunch~ Hebrew nation Hot dog, chips, Rice milk, or OJ
Snack~ Fruit, peaches, pears, pineapple or
Smoothie/ Protien shake fozen Fruit, rice milk, juice, protein powder
Dinner, rice pasta, tomatoe sauce, mashed potatoes with ground chicken hidden in it, home made French fries, coated in egg whites' makes em crispy, with veggies he won't eat and meat he won't eat, so more friut or puffins are given.
Dinner is the hard one in our house
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What kind of protein powder do you use? Where do you find it? We do smoothies daily and it is the only way to get in the good stuff. His protein intake is getting lower and I wanted to get a protein powder.
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Nutrobonics (sp?) Rice protein, I bought it at DeWalts Health food store. It is a huge tub, cost me , but it's going to last a long time.
My oldest ds it's pb&j, chicken nuggets, cheetos, macaroni and cheese, ravioli, eggs, pancakes, french toast, turkey or ham sandwiches, string cheese, bananas, apples,fries, scandanvian meatballs, chocolate or candy and noodles and occsionally a hamburger.
My youngest ds it's pb&j, yougurt, chicken nuggets, eggs, turkey and cheese, macaroni, ravioli, spaghetti, cheesy rice, string cheese, crackers, cheetos, fries, hamburger on occasion, and chocolate.
when Don moved in at 6 1/2 years old, he ate:plain chips, dorito chips, cheezies, chocolate chip cookies, smarties,
mcnuggets (had to be from mcdonalds), fries, white bread with peanut
butter, dry fruit loops cereal or dry cheerios, clear juices, popcorn, water.
He was super-underweight and constantly sick.
We used an ABA-style program. Today, he eats whatever he is asked,
although it sometimes takes prompting, encouragement, and a bit of
tough love
He's now actually a bit OVERweight, and enjoys eating,
instead of it being a battle. I'm really, really proud of where his eating is
at - we never thought he'd make as much progress as he has. Now I
believe that by the time he's an adult he won't even be fussy anymore.
His favourite foods, which he'll eat without any fuss or input from us are:
meat (any, but chicken is his favourite)
rice
pasta with sauce but no veggies
corn (on the cob or off)
grilled cheese
bread in general
potatoes (baked, boiled, fried - he loves potatoes)
cereal that doesn't have dried fruit, granola, or nuts
oatmeal
eggs
clear juices, water, milk
pretty much any/all junk food (hotdogs, hamburgers, chips, candy, ice
cream, cake, etc.)
He'll sometimes ask for or initiate eating carrots also (raw or cooked)
Foods he genuinely dislikes, that aren't just part of his "fussiness":
peas
yams
bananas
anything yogurt or pudding consistency
If anybody wants to hear the big long process of how we got Don to eat,
feel free to PM me
MY 5 YRARS ASD WILL EAT.
PIZZA-MACCRONI CHEESE-BREAD-EGG-OATMEAL=DONUT-CINIMEN ROLL-CHICKEN STRIP-FISH-HOT TEA-PEPSSI-CANDSY-GUM-CEREAL-POPCORN-CHIPS-CHICKEN SPAGGETTI.breakfast: frozen pancakes or waffles, cheerios or rice crispies with milk( he loves milk) and milk to drink
snack: juice,anything crunchy, bananas, apples and just started eating aduly yogurt
lunch: cheese sandwich on any kind of white bread or sometimes I sneak him wholegrain white bread, juice and M&M cookies
dinner: loves any kind of dinner rolls with butter,plain sphagetti(I only buy barilla wholegrain) with butter and parmesan cheese and no sauce, any kind of chicken, corn, rice, french fries or pizza. Sometimes I make french toast and scrambled eggs.
He loves french fries but mashed potatoes have always been a problem, he can't tolerate the testure of them
dessert: cookies, ice cream, cake, italian ice, loves making brownies or milkshakes with me.
Sounds like a lot of kids eat alike.
Parker likes hardly anything for breakfast. He will only eat sausage, toast or snack foods.
For lunch he likes: Garlic potato soup, McDonald's fries and nuggets, sausage again, hot dogs, salami with cheese on the side, taco meet and cheese, chili from a can, and sometimes chicken bakes from Costco.
For snack he sometimes likes cheese sticks, cheese it's, pickles, goldfish crackers, banana's and almost any kind of chip. (sometimes Hershey bar pieces or m$m's)(oh yeah, and cake)
For dinner he likes about the same as lunch. If we have pizza, he just picks the pepperoni off and eats that. We have to order double pep or we'll all be stuck eating cheese pizza, lol. He is a really picky boy. He has at least licked a couple things lately before saying no to them. I'm proud of him for that.
Patrick likes to eat: Eggo pancakes or waffles for breakfast; most cereals; bagel (Lenders) with butter toasted; sometimes toast. He loves fruit - grapes - bananas - cantelope - I try to dress up his plate with a starch and then some fruit cut up so he gets to pick while watching cartoons before school.
Lunch - is hard - rameen noodles (seems alot of the children like this).. progresso chicken noodle soup - only eats grilled cheese at home - it must get too soggy at school - yogurt - sometimes -
dinner french frieds - chicken cutlet breaded and fried - meatloaf - he likes most veggies - thank goodness - and sometimes white rice - I have to help him eat that - it gets messy - hot dogs -
and of course Patrick loves pretzels, chips - salty - foods he can pick on -
oh and loves, loves, clausen dill pickles - the snackin' kind..............
Breakfast - will eat Yogurt, frosted strawberry poptart, honeybuns, pancake, sometimes muffin, biscuits w/jelly and most recently toast.
Lunch - mac n cheese, chicken nuggets (only those w/no pepper) vienna sausage, cracker w/butter on top, appleasauce, ramen noodles (beef or chicken) pizza (asks for pepperoni and pulls them off and eats the rest) go figure. .sometimes, fish.
veggies - only green beans and green peas and not much and not always.
fruits - bananas, dried mango, applesauce but not apple slices.
drinks - strawberry and regular 2% milk. apple and fruit juices
deserts - loves ice cream and cookies.
snacks- gold fish, vanilla waffers, cheetoes, cheese its.
Refuses beef in any form or fashion. Also eggs.
Most recently, ate a piece of bacon for the first time Yeah! I had previously offered her turkey bacon which I love and she refused. DH said he didn't blame her. The bacon she ate was regular pork off of his plate.
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C's favorite foods are: pancakes, chicken & pork potstickers with rice, tortellini, macaroni & cheese, penne with butter & parmesean, pizza, peanut butter & jelly sandwiches, cinnamon buns, apples, banannas, chips, french fries & corn on the cob. And of course he loves a Happy Meal - either cheeseburger or nuggets!
He eats pretty well for the most part. Not too ritualized. He has his favorites for sure like all kids do but overall not super picky. He'll even eat stuff like calamari & shrimp when we're at a restaurant. He LOVES restaurants - favorite by far is Benihana where the chef cooks at the table.
Breakfast : Waffles, Cereal, Pop Tarts, Bacon, Toast - won't eat eggs thoughLunch: Any of those lunchable things, Chicken Nuggets, PB & J, Ham & Cheese, Pizza - doesn't want pepperoni it though.
Dinner: Anything...but if you give him a choice it usually will be fish or chicken of some sort
Dislikes: french fries at the moment
Likes: Any fruit/vegetable out there - raw or cooked. LOVES asparagus and broccoli
Breakfast:usually one of the following-waffles,pancakes,muffins, banana
or pumkin bread, or wheat cinnamon-raisin toast (with creamcheese), or
oatmeal. I always give him a yogurt/juice smoothie and hide "secret
ingredient" in it. (strawberry fish oils
) sometimes fresh fruit.
Snacks: mostly granola bars or dry cereal. He likes bananas and apples
too. sometimes crackers. He LOVES dried fruit.
If he didn't eat the lunch provided at school, I give him a "fruit and
cheese" plate for a snack--usually just sliced apples or pears with some
cubes or slices of different cheeses. He'll eat pb&j, or grilled
turkey&cheese, with fruit on the side (apples, pears,mango,papaya,melon,
banana)
Dinner: PASTA is his favorite by far, He likes it when I just toss it with
oliveoil,cheese, and some spices. He'll eat it with chicken too.
Chicken sausage, chicken nuggets, any kind of chicken
But I have
gotten him to actually eat some fish sticks, breaded fish fillets, and
crabcakes! (as long as they are breaded and crispy) He likes ham, too
He only eats veggies raw and crunchy-jicima, carrotts, red bell pepper
slices...I just put them in a bowl for him. he likes pizza and lasangna too
his favorite meal by a long shot is when I make "breakfast" for dinner.
Usually chicken/apple sausage, pumpkin or banana pancakes, and fruit.
He is VERY picky about sauces, textures, and "specks". And doesn't like
his different foods to touch each other.
It sounds like he eats alot, but that is pretty much his entire diet right
there.
Breakfast: Pancakes, French toast sticks, Toast with butter, Cereal
Lunch: Peanut butter and Jelly,
Pizza
Dinner: Macroni and Cheese or Peanut butter and Jelly or
or Cereal or something from breakfast.
Pizza
Snacks: yogurt, pudding, grahm crackers, fruit cups, fruit, bananas, dora gummies, fruit cereal bars, Onion rings (chip version) cheese balls, pretzals Breakfast:
Waffle (dry)
Pancakes (dry)
French Toast Sticks (dry)
Honey Nut Cheerios (sometimes with milk)
Cinnamon Raisin Bagel
Bread (dry)
Lunch/Dinner
Hot dog (off bun and cut into circles) with ketchup
Hot dog bun (will eat separate from meat)
Spaghettios
Pizza (plain only)
Grilled Cheese Sandwich
Macaroni with red sauce
Dinosaur shaped chicken nuggets
French Fries
Applesauce(sometimes mixed with baby food sweet potatoes)
Yogurt (Trixx purple and pink only)
Drinks water only
Snacks:
Crackers, Oreo cookies, hershey chocolate, lollipops, Healthy Choice Fudge Bar, Ice pops
Jess is VERY picky.
B'fast is usually muffins & veggie sausages with light syrup (and that's it!) No eggs, waffles, pancakes, toast, etc.....
Lunch and dinner are usually some kind of veggie burger/or chicken nuggets with a side of canned veggies like corn or peas. Sometimes applesauce. She LOVES broccoli! The girl won't touch fruit with a ten foot pole but she'll eat 2 heads of broccoli in one sitting.
The only real meat she'll eat are the chicken nuggets or sometimes meatballs/meatloaf. I'm a vegetarian so it doesn't bother me too much - luckily she likes a lot of soy/veggie stuff to get her protein.
And like her mom, she sure gets her share of sweets in!
Vegemite or Nutella spreads only.
Occasionally weetabix with milk.
Fruche (Vanilla only) Yogo (chocolate only)
Hot Chips (any kind)
Spagetti Bolegneise sauce (sometimes)
Baked beans (sometimes)
Crackers, biscuits - basically anything junk food/snackfood related.
breakfast-frozen pancakes or waffles, or toast with pb,cheese wiz.(No meat no eggs)Bananas
Lunch-(School)bagel with cream cheese, crackers with cheese, Bologna or salami with cheese and crackers ,pb sandwich, mac&cheese.
dinner-spaghetti w tomato soup,cheese,Alphagitti, Potato mixed with sweet potato.hot dogs, nuggets and fries.
So,bread(Most),
Fruit ,(only bananas)
Meat, (Bologna, chicken nuggets , wiener ,salami)
Veg,(Potatoes),reg and sweet.
Milk (Most)
Junk food,Chips ,candy, cake, Icecream(NO PROBLEM THERE)
Linda
Breakfast: cereal-Fruit loops, Cocoa Puffs,Lucky Charms,Frosted Flakes,honey bunches of Oats, sausage, bacon, toast with butter,
Lunch/Dinner: Peanut butter on a slice of bread, nuggets, spaghetti w/ red sauce, cheese pizza, taco meat. french fries, ramen soup, black beans
Fruit: Watermelon,banana, apples, oranges (he just licks them)
Weird stuff?: ramen noodles dry straight out of the bag 9he eats them like chips), and parmasean cheese in a bowl, just the cheese, with a spoon.
Also, he is an avid chocolate addict.
I read a book over the summer called, Just Take A Bite. gret book about telling you wht kind of level of pickey eater your child is, however after 200 pages, they only suggest that you present food to your child over an over (like 20-30 times!) and allowing them to select it from the platter it is presented on.
My son's teacher has pulled every resource on the matter, and neither of us has found an effective published solution on how to have immediate results and get the food into their mouths/bodies. Hopefully, that Deceptively Delicious book from Jessica Seinfeld works, I just bought and have yet to attempt it.
Toast-vegemite
Banana
Apple
Grapes
Tomato
Cheese
Hot Chips
Nuggets
biscuits sweet and plain
Drinks Cows milk (with sustagen if no dinner is eaten) black currant cordial
edited to add cake (lamington)
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