Food Journal Expanding

John's Food Journal is expanding with entries. If he so much as tries a nibble of a food, we draw a picture of it in his journal, which he finds exciting. Chris and I struggle to know why John's eating is so limited (some "chicken and egg" issues from his babyhood) and to know what we are supposed to do to help him. But we sure do work on it. John enjoys his weekly Occupational Therapy with Miss Melissa and just a week ago we started having John try a nibble of everything served at each meal--which I truly don't think he would or could have done sooner than this (but I well might be wrong).

I divided up John's food journal pages by food categories. Some of you will laugh when you see what I have to count as fruit and vegetables, but I had to start John with some successes, so he could don the label of a Boy Who Likes Fruit and Vegetable (Flavors)! And my close friends who have listened to the trials and tribulations will know how tremendously huge some of these "wins" listed below really are.

Fruit Flavors

Fruity snacks (like gummy candies)

Currants

Cereal bars (strawberry, apple, fig)

Apple sauce

Mini Wheats cereal (strawberry, blueberry)

Dehydrated apple crisps

Chocolate-covered Craisins

Vanilla yogurt-covered Raisins

Toaster pastries (strawberry)

Dairy

Milk with Ovaltine

Yogurt-covered pretzels

Macaroni & cheese

Cheese pizza

Homemade shake (milk, yogurt, fruit, honey)

Nuts

Peanut butter (smooth)

Nutella

Oats and peanut butter granola bar

Dark chocolate almond spread

Vegetable Flavors

Chive & onion cream cheese spread

Garlic roll

Fettuccine Alfredo with green specks

Grandmom's pumpkin bread

Cheese pizza (sauce = tomato)

Veggie & Flaxseed Tortilla Chips

Snapea Crisps

Fried okra

Cooked broccoli

Raw carrot

Raw celery

Black bean

Meat

Chicken nuggets (including one brand that is not Tyson!)

Fried egg

Tofu

Ground beef