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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PP here - my kids eat a lot of baked goods. Lots of muffins with some whole wheat flour, things with Nutella on them. I get in nutrition where I can. My kids are super active so I don’t worry about weight gain right now (sort of the opposite especially) but we do emphasize that ideally you eat some or protein and fruit or vegetables every day. The younger one basically won’t eat vegetables but I think the sooner you can introduce the idea that you do need more than just carbs the better, but again in a low key way. Many days the only produce the younger one eats is a banana or a few grapes. It’s better than nothing.[/quote]

We are similar. My  youngest fell behind on his weight curve at 3 so I got into baking stuff with "additions" he wouldn't notice - catering to his pickiness more than trying to overcome it. Lots of zucchini bread with wheat flour and flax seeds, popsicles and pudding with Greek yogurt and occasionally protein powder, and attempts at black bean and chickpea-based cookies and brownies that were mostly rejected (would work better for a kid who doesn't hate nut butters.) I would also stir extra butter, olive oil, etc into every serving of pasta and serve whole milk at every meal. We have also started buying meat more regularly, we were an almost vegetarian household for almost a decade but if that's the only way my kid will eat protein, fine.

Still struggling with both of my kids refusing all vegetables, and sometimes i worry that the safe food thing keeps them from trying anything new, but I think we're in better territory as far as weight gain. Some nights this winter when we were worried, I'd let him have toast after a dinner he refused, and I've been able to stop doing that and just offer more of the same dinner if he's still hungry. [/quote]

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