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[quote=Anonymous]My 12 year old daughter sounds exactly like yours, OP.  She doesn't eat lox or shrimp, but she will eat fried calamari.  Go figure.  We've tried an OT who helps her to branch out with limited success.  The biggest worry I have is how much self control she has when there's nothing she likes on the table.  She once lost 5 pounds in 2 weeks at sleepaway camp, which really scared me.  The next year we sent her with chocolate protein drinks and belvitas to supplement the meals, and she did much better.

She has a clicking jaw, and the food therapist said that they way she chews might make chewy foods more difficult to eat.  And she almost suffocated from croup as a five year old.  She is also by nature a suspicious person.  The food therapist thought that any or all of these factors could contribute to her pickiness.  We've tried a lot of things but she is still stuck in a rut.

Still, she is clearly thriving in terms of growth and energy level, and she is a very healthy weight.  Reading these posts makes me think I need to back off a little and hope things get better at some point in the future.

(All me other kids, whom I have raised exactly the same, are adventurous eaters.  So I don't think it's my food.)[/quote]

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