Updates: Diet in school

Gabby has made some improvement on her diet. She has finally eaten half of the tuna mayo sandwich during tea break yesterday. This comment may seem strange to some parents but Gabby is a selective eater. According to the teacher, since day 1, she had been refusing food like fish, vegetables (all kinds), mushroom, honeydew, watermelon, apple with skin, etc….. . She only consumes carbo and soup (her favourite and will finish by herself). As she is still new to the environment (coming to 2 weeks), the teachers have been lenient towards her for the time being.

According to the VP, Gabby was arranged to sit with the peers that enjoy food a lot. They hope with the peer pressure, it will motivate her to eat and it works. She had been observing her peers finishing the sandwiches fast and asking for 2nd and even 3rd helpings. In turn, she starts her sandwich by tearing off the edge of the bread (which has the most tuna flakes) and scrubbed as much tuna off the remaining of the bread before she ate it. She also drank ¼ cup of milo.

According to the VP, kids like Gabby, who is a selective eater will eventually improves once they reached Kindergarten. As they needed more energy for their daily activities, they will be eating more and better. Another factor is they are constantly been feed with the food that the CC gives, it’s only a matter of time before their body senses (taste, visual, smell) will get use to it. So there is hope for all selective eaters, so long we parents don’t give up. For me, I’m more relaxed than before. At least Gabby had been eating sweets, chocolate and many others things on many occasion. I believe the important of having balance diet with enjoyment. So Gabby, Gambetta!

Food Preference

Does your child have any food preferences? Well, it depends how old is/are your child/children. As they grow older, they do developed one or few. For my princess, she does have a few.

Hate list.
Rice (Prepared in any style, except congee and rice w/ soup from fish steamboat. Don’t ask me what’s the diff compare to the one w/fish soup. Cause I can’t tell the taste diff except they add sour plum and yam in the fish steamboat.)
Puree/Mash
Durian (Wat a shame!!)

Love list
Ice Cream (Tis is one of the 1st word that Gab can pronounce and remember instantly when taught. Whenever we passed by any ice cream place, she never fail to say “Wah, i-cream”.)
Cake
French fries/potato wedges
Chilled green tea
Biscuits
Cheesy stuffs
Milky stuffs
Bread/prata/puffs
Noodles
Selected veg

Recently, we tried to introduce some hot stuff (chili) to Gab. So far so good. I still remember the 1st time she took Pasta that was mixed with chili powder. First, she look abit shocked and secs later, her face and neck turned pink. Okay, it’s in a darker shade. Then she would start to chew her food real slowly, slowly and she turned to us with a “Do you know what you are doing but tis is nothing to me. I can cope” smile. Sound complex? But tat’s what we saw in her smile. She is brave. So far she has tried laksa, dried noodles w/ chili sauce. Wonder wat’s next……. Chili crabs?? ;)