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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What do others do at birthday parties and family functions? Having an Arfid eater goes against everything you want your child to be like — ie serving them only what they can eat.  [/quote]

So I struggle with this in theory (that I am only feeding my child what they want to eat) but the reality is that my child is severely underweight and I will feed them (and beg them to eat) anything they are willing to eat. I have no problems feeding my child pasta, chocolate bars, ice cream, or cake for any meal at all.

Of course, because my child has ARFID, they only eat one brand or flavor of these treats so they rarely eat cake or ice cream or anything at a birthday party, so eating socially is a challenge.

My child is fine to skip meals though (unfortunately), and they have learned to get something on their plate and push it around. Birthday parties are fine, but DC will get hangry if they miss dinner, so I usually pack something I know they will eat.

I’m the PP whose child added white rice and hamburger these past two years. Food goals recently are actually oriented to being able to eat high calorie foods outside our home. Hamburgers are huge because usually bread + meat (nothing on the burger) is fairly consistent no matter where you get it. DC has also been working for 2 years on eating plain pasta outside the home, and only willing to eat it about 30% of the time. Grilled cheese and chicken nuggets almost never outside our home. [/quote]

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