The first thing he eats unsupervised is chocolate. I find that interesting. I know many kids who have chocolate in the house and yet don’t go scouring the house for it because they know it’s there.
Continuing on from the lunchbox discussion the other day. Many kids love chocolate but there is something deeply problematic and long-standing in regard to Ashy’s relationship with food. His lunchbox was surprising to say the least, considering he’s in sport and looks like an active kid. There was no protein. I would hazard a guess and say maybe it doesn’t matter because he goes when he wants, or is so busy at school he forgets to eat. However the few times chocolate has been mentioned or he’s had it, he looks hypnotised. It looks like he’s having something illicit and he knows it. Remember Easter when he had the organic reduced sugar egg (which would’ve just used a different type of sugar anyway lol)? Poor kid. I wanted to give him good old Cadbury and say enjoy kid, it’s Easter.
Kids who are restricted always go ham when they can. I would bet $50 at birthday parties he goes to, especially in later years - he annihilates the lolly table.
That he helps himself to chocolate flavoured vitamin powder and she laughs it off says enough, and it's disturbing. He likes that crap but won't eat most normal foods? I don't think this is a food sensory issue. Firstly, that stuff is green/brown and gritty. Secondly, those supplements are the only food that he has been consistently exposed to, on a daily basis. He is fussy because Ashy is
bleeping lazy and is satisfied with his nutrition intake through powdered supplements, and rather than make the effort to make sure he has a good variety of other food throughout the day, every day, she thinks it's enough that he likes her
tit shakes (literally, because they give you the shits). How much is he having if he can help himself? Besides the fact that it's not really necessary to have, he shouldn't be given free range access to a supplement.