Food Issues

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Above is a link about feeding issues. Honestly, my kids have both had much more severe feeding issues that your son, and I don't know that I would worry about his feeding issues too much if you have a basket full of other issues and limited resources. If someone is already helping you with therapy for him, I would add feeding issues to the list of items to address.

I'm 23 and still have food "oddities", though it's not pickiness.
I have hyposensitivity to taste, so some of my favorite meals are simply starch (rice, potatoes, noodles etc) + a strong condiment (hot sauce, mustard, whatever). I've eaten fries drenched in wing sauce, ramen swimming in A1, and broccoli you couldn't see, it was so covered in red pepper flakes.
My mom flat-out didn't/doesn't cook, so I grew up eating pop-tarts and microwavable chicken nuggets I found and prepared if I was hungry.

I agree with OliveOilMom's advice, and others- so long as no one "phase" lasts for years, I think kiddos will do okay, so long as they're eating something.

DS is pretty fussy with his eating. Our situation is a little more tricky in that I am a vegetarian so he spent the majority of his early years eating very little meat. Now the only meat he will eat is chicken nuggets and bolognaise. His staples are the starches - bread, crackers, toast, pasta, hot chips, biscuits (cookies). He eats lots of vegetables, he just doesn't know it - I make a lot of vegetable soups, curries, pastas, lasagnas etc and chop the vegetables extremely finely and add them in. There is a 'list' of acceptable meals and I have to tell him 'how many' mouthfuls he needs to have in order to receive a reward - one star on his reward chart, or play games on his psp or a chocolate. Sometime I have to literally feed him because he cannot bring himself to put the food in his mouth so he asks me to do it which makes him a lot calmer. I think a lot of it is textures, as he will gag and throw up and it's completely out of his control. Left to his own devices he would live on macaroni cheese, vegemite sandwiches, watermelon, nuggets and toast.