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[quote=Anonymous]My 7yo also fell off the growth curve and we are trying to push food.  We have had limited success with Darigold FIT milk- it has 14g of protein per cup in the whole milk version (not sure about other versions).  There are some protein brownies that are also sometimes deemed acceptable.  Also, peanut butter on crackers/banana/anything worked briefly before DC got sick of peanut butter.

I got a book on CBT for ARFID that said changing up tastes (eg, several different flavors vs a lot of one thing) can help, so sometimes if we hit a block with one food we offer alternatives.  We also have developed a point system (bc I don’t want my 7yo “counting calories”) and we target a total of 7 points (each point is 200 calories) per day,  which is a huge stretch compared to where we are many days.  We push for 2 points at breakfast, 2 at lunch, 1 snack, 2 dinner.  Usually by dinner we have failed to hit all those so we try for 3 at dinner to make up for it.  Sometimes the points are helpful with protein because 1 cup of milk = 1 point (which is a faster/easier way of getting a point vs less calorically dense stuff which has more volume)[/quote]

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