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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There doesn't have to be a kid menu for them to make something that wouldn't be difficult but a kid could eat.

Think a fruit salad and a chicken breast. Or a baked potato. Rolls and some sort of meat for a sandwich.[/quote]

I wish.

We almost always bring food for my 6 y.o.

Here is the our current food list:

Dairy:
- white milk 1%, 2% or whole - any brand
- yogurt - Dannon Vanilla Greek and certain flavors of YoKids and Yoplait kids
- some lowfat string cheese

Meat/Legumes (protein!)
- smooth peanut butter
- smooth Sunbutter
- plain hummus
- variety of processed chicken nuggets/tenders - but not all
- variety of processed fish sticks

Vegetables/Fruits
- regular french fries, including some homemade
- regular sweet potato fries, including some homemade
- pre-cut carrots (crinkle cut) but generally only with hummus
- red seedless grapes (prefers very firm, rounder, not too big - inspects each one but will eat 10+ in one sitting)
- peeled apple slices (only a couple at a time)
- peeled pear slices (only a couple at a time)
- freeze dried banana slices (now very limited number)
- unsweetened apple sauce - plain or cinnamon
- plus still eats an ever decreasing number of purees from tubes 
(a couple each from Plum Baby, Ella, Gerber Organics  and Earth's Best Sesame Street Fruit/Yogurt combos)

Grains:
- Cheerios - plain
- Kixx cereal
- Coco Lite Pop Cakes (not onion!)
- Wheat Club Crackers - regular
- stone ground wheat crackers - regular or low sodium
- some other crackers at school or other parties but only certain ones
- Pepperidge Farm thin sliced bread - wheat only
- some plain baguettes (will eat Panera's)
- most plain bagels
- plain slightly salted popcorn 
- some pancakes (mostly just ours from a box made small)
- some waffles (unpredictable)
- Fiber One Peanut Butter Granola bars (sometimes - used to like more)
- Cascadian Farms Mini-Granola bars (sometimes - used to like more)

Drinks:
- plain water (cold or room temp - no ice and never warm/hot) 
(plus milk)

Additional commercially produced crispy carbs (a/k/a junk!):
- Snyder Mini Pretzels, Waffle Pretzels or Pretzel Sticks 
- Veggie Straws/Chips
- SnapPea Crisps
- Pirate Booty - regular flavor
- Sun Chips - plain
- plain white corn tortilla chips (Tostitos or similar)
- most regular graham crackers
- Nilla Wafers - regular or mini's
- Teddy Grahams - honey or cinnamon

Almost every food on this list represents a victory - including Cheerios.

[b]Plus, in progress items include:
- plain meatballs
- processed fish patty
- instant oatmeal (w/ Dinosaur eggs)
- celery sticks
- Nutrigrain bars 
- cheddar chees slices/shapes
- watermelon
- vanilla ice cream[/b][i][u]

No dx, not on the spectrum or anything per evaluation at Children's - just some sensory and anxiety issues.
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Why are these your "in progress" items.  Assuming your child does have some medical sensory and anxiety issues, I would think you'd want the absolute best bang for your buck when "in progress" on food items. If you have to slowly introduce and cajole to get your kid to eat food, why in the world would you waste that effort on "processed fish patty" instead of real actual fish or vanilla ice cream (!!??!!) instead of another fruit or veggie?[/quote]

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