Hi! I have a 6 and a half year old son who is an extremely picky eater and always has been. He takes a multivitamin and most of the foods he likes aren't terrible, but they aren't super healthy either. He loves certain fruit, but he won't eat any vegetables at all. At his checkup, the nurse(who is a sweet, elderly woman that I adore, this isn't anything against her at all) suggested that I try hiding vegetables in his food.He loves Mac and cheese and if I told him something was a hashbrown or popcorn chicken, he would eat it. I've seen some people mix vegetables in mac and cheese or make like breaded vegetables in the oven, and although I do want him to eat vegetables, I feel like in general messing with someone's food is not ok. I worry about if he found out, it would make him less likely to trust me in that area.Right now the only way I get him to try new things is because he does trust me and also because we have a deal where if he doesn't like it he gets to spit it out on the floor, which he thinks is hilarious. I know him so I know what he will like. Also even if he didn't find out... it still makes me feel weird. It's tampering with someone's food, you know?I hate seafood of all kinds and I remember my step mom used to tell me that I wouldn't even be able to tell if there was crab meat in some thing she made, because you couldn't taste it. The next time she made it, she made a big show of making a separate portion for me with no crab meat. She lied. As soon as I took a bite, I knew it was in there and it made me feel sick. I was really mad about that.However, he hasn't explicitly said "I don't like this vegetable", so is it really the same thing? I'm conflicted lol. via /r/Parenting https://ift.tt/3iyR5m1
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