We add 1/2 - 1 teaspoon of Benefiber depending on the day. Kid won't eat prunes. He eats a lot of fruit and eat their veggies. DS will O.D. on cheese and breads if we let him, so we have to ration these.

Anonymous wrote:Just eat some fruit

Peaches and mangoes.

My kid loves these oatmeal pancakes:

http://www.myrecipes.com/recipe/oatmeal-pancakes

PP Here: Smoothie that is. Also protein like eggs, other meats were good at not causing problems and still made him feel full.

Our nutritionist asked us to keep a food journal. While natural fiber can be very useful she also noted that it can bulk up inside the body and be just as impossible to pass. So she said to not only look at the type of fiber being eaten but the additional foods on the menu. In our case even just a few carbs - bread, bagels etc made any type of natural fiber not work. So we had to work on the fiber source and the diet for our DS. For him bananas, cheese, bagels and any type of bread bound him up miserably, as did potatoes, rice etc. For a while pureed prunes in oatmeal worked well for him as long as we balanced the rest of his diet accordingly. Then oatmeal seemed to bother him. So these days he likes a fresh fruit something with no bananas - in the summer this is easy with all of the fruit available. Some crackers don't seem to bind him up so we use that instead of bread for "sandwiches" for lunch. When things get bad we do use Miralax - especially when traveling since its harder to get the right balance for him. We did not find that any of the "fiber bars" worked as well as trying to identify what was causing the lack of movement in his bowels.

This is OP. We did and she recommended a Miralax program, which judging by the posts on this board, they all do. My kid does not need that much help and I don't want to go that route. Gummies worked well for us for quite a while. Thanks to the posters who recommended the tortillas (my kid eats them plain) and the Fiber One products. For some reason I had never thought about that.

I don't mean to hijack this post, but I'm interested in whether people consulted GI docs or dietitians to develop a program?

I'm the PP that mentioned the TJ's fiber bars. We don't notice any digestive distress from them. But my kids won't eat the FiberOne fiber bars. Agree with PPs that berries and apples are also good sources of fiber.

There's also some good snack foods you can make that are pretty high fiber, like these:
http://www.howsweeteats.com/2012/09/quick-easy-no-bake-oatmeal-peanut-butter-bites/
or these:
http://www.rachaelray.com/2013/11/healthy-breakfast-cookies-for-kids (using bran cereal)
or these
http://www.thesneakychef.com/blog/2013/11/brown-sugar-breakfast-cookies.html

Here's a sample day's menu that has about 25 grams of fiber, which is what the doctors said we should shoot for for my son:

Breakfast:
Bowl of blueberries (5 g.)
White whole wheat toast (2 g)
Vegan sausage (1 g.)

Lunch
PBJ on white whole wheat (7 g)
Apple (4 g)

Snack:
Prunes, 1/2 cup (6 g)

Dinner:
Spaghetti w/ sauce and meatballs (1-2 g.)

I find that dinner is usually the tough time to get fiber in, for my family, because they don't really like whole wheat pasta or rolls. I usually aim for 5-10 grams at both breakfast and lunch, then 2-5 grams for snack and dinner.

Apples. No?

Aren't blueberries good this way?

Metamucil wafers. They are like cookies.

Mission carb balance tortillas have 26 g of fiber. Use to wrap up egg scramble at breakfast or for sandwich wrap.