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only eating yellow food

sarahtotty

Does anyone have any advice on how i can get my 2 year old with suspected autism to eat anything other than yellow food i feel like i tried everything. all he eats is custard creams, cheerios popcorn chicken, waffles,and crisps ir biscuits if i give him anything or wet texture eg beans sauce and he gets it on his hands he has meltdown same thing happens with fruit and veg. we all try to sit at table with him but he freaks out only way i can get him to eat sometimes is by putting it next to him when he is laying down playing with his toys in front of his eyes. also tried to buy veggie burgers didnt work just gagged on veggies

  • can you tint swimming googles with a yellow paint

  • I heard a programme on radio 4 that said rejecting foods they had previously eaten was normal for this age and they can go down to quite a narrow range but they do get over it. I think it was something to do with what hohner said about realising not everything is good. Could you involve him in making some purple food, perhaps using blackberries as a natural colour? Try to findout what textures in food he likes. How it feels in the mouth is very important to its acceptability.

  • Yellow the colour of intelligence, your child is the sun.

    quote"gagged on veggies",, normal response for a young child to stop them eating bad greens in the wild., hopefully it will pass.

    Try the old feeding trick, put other food "hidden inside" the yellow food and feed him it. How about an fried yellow egg.

    Custard with added ingredient which has been blended invisibility inside it.

    He seems to eat when relaxed, so don't stress.

  • Sweetcorn is yellow though an unusual texture. Potatoes. I think you can get yellow carrots, and purple veg. 

    The issue at nursery may be the noise and business of the room, even when he sits on his own, rather than the food.

  • dunno if its the colour or texture because he also loves purple carrys purple triangle everywhere. corey has never slept a night away from home no one will have him cos of his sleeping behaviour.he wont touch any fruit hates the texture he used to like yoghurts when he was one but now he gags even if i put tiny bit on his lip. my pedtrician put me on a waiting list for nutritionist. he also refuses to eat anything at nursery even when i pack his fave food and sits on his own away from other children. thanks for trying to help i resort to buying vitamins atm he gas dropped from his 91st line in red book to 50 th i get so worried as when he does eat its only like 3 bites :(

  • when my son was at school a number of children had food issues.  At lunch time they used to put a really really small amount of a food normally rejected on to the side of the plate.  "Just a little bit - you don't have to eat it" was the phrase.

  • hi - I'd take the pressure off + let him sit where he wants, rather than at the table with the rest of you.  Leave food out for him so he can inspect it at his own pace.  Have you seen a dietician/doctor to check if he's getting all the nutrients he needs? The other thing to consider is : if he spends time elsewhere, away from home, do his eating patterns stay the same?  I ask because my son, when he was little, would only eat certain items at home but he was eating different things away from home.  He compartmentalised his eating habits, amongst other things.  Now he likes most food, altho he still eats a meal item by item. For example if he had a roast chicken dinner he'd eat the chicken 1st, the potato 2nd, etc.  Does he enjoy bananas?   He may have sensory issues with wet foods + other textures when he puts them in his mouth.  He's obviously latched on to 1 colour.  The only thing I wd try, if you haven't already, is try to get him interested in a different colour.  If he has other interests, say a particular toy he likes of a different colour, green or red for example, you cd draw a parallel with that + food items?  There may be info on the home page.  Maybe other posters have come across something similar + will be able to offer advice.  bw