I don't know how to encourage my son to eat more

savypat...you are right.. just not sneaky enough! Shame we moms have to think that way but they won't eat otherwise! I tried to get my kids to eat oatmeal/cream of wheat...they hated it, but I started doing thing like adding food coloring to it, raisins, marshmallows, dry cereal like Trix, sliced strawberries...lot of things to add to it to make it look fun and NOT just "stupid old oatmeal". Then I'd top it with a candle, call them for breakfast and they were eating it before they realized what it was and liked it! Now they do the same for their kids! My GD wouldn't touch chicken if cooked at home. Loved chicken nuggets tho. She loved dolphins. so One day while she was playing "dolphins" (just jumping around pretending to swim) I started making homemade chicken nuggest..just cut the b)re(ast meat into chunks and did the dredging with flour, egg and milk..and then deep fried them. She asked me what I was doing and I told her I was making squid for the dolphins. Her expression was really odd..but I could see those wheels start a rolling in her mind! When I was done, I took a plate where she was "swimming" and called the dolphins to eat and would pretend to feed the dolphins, let her jump up and catch it in her mouth etc. She loved it! Ate a bunch of them! I didn't tell her it was chicken, she didn't ask. After a couple times doing this...she finally did ask, so I told her and she was "really?" next thing I know...she is asking to make them! So I let her! And she loved it! And hasn't stopped eating chicken since! Her mother complained that she wasn't going to play games with food and eating, and I said...hey.. you all tried and I was the only one that succeeded in getting her to eat..so let's not be to hateful about how it happened!

You just aren't sneaky enough. Make your own sauce for the spagetti, a lot of mashed veggies can be included and not change the flavor, you can even use a commercial sauce and add a few things. A hamburger can also include veggies in the mix and french fries can be tossed in a healthy oil and baked. You have to think outside the box. These foods which are high in carbs can be more healthy, just change the carbs. After all he needs to gain weight, right? Granddaughter lived on mac and cheese, we slowly changed the mac to include whole wheat and included more and more non fat cheese, then for good measure we added an egg to the dish and baked it for awhile. Gave her carrot sticks and raisens for snack sure it took us some time to figure all the ways we could add things, the main thing with fast food is the salt, that may be what he loves best. Change to sea salt and slowly decrease it. Very slowly Good luck

thanks savypat but my son will never say no to a fast food like burger, spaghetti and french fries, but we all know that these foods were not healthy, he is actually taking vitamins too

yes you are right he is 9 years old now, he doesn't like preferred snacks but rather ask money and buy what he wants in the canteen, I try to make sandwich before but I ended up eating it myself when he got home, as for the lunch I make it on my own. For the sweets, I don't think so, he actually hates chocolates but love cookies like oreo but he seldom eat those. I am also planning to consult a doctor for another vitamins for appetite. But do you know any?

My sister in law, who is a nurse, had a child that lived mostly on crisps! At least she ate very little else although her mother was a good home cook. In desperation my sister in law gave her a glass of milk every day topped up with a raw beaten egg. This seemed to make up the vitamins she lacked and she grew into a slim but healthy young woman.

Thanks and I hoped you are right.

Thanks I think I can make the spaghetti but not the fatty burger, I still need more skills to do that . I want him to eat anything I make, I don't want him to grow picky foods and so thin

usually he doesn't like pure veggies which I usually cook, thanks for the advice I even use bot carrots and peas in the grounded pork, I even put quail eggs but he doesn't like that egg huhuhu

hi Jamie I am not that creative actually I am a busy mom, I work both offline and online lol he still taken his vitamins and he doesn't want milk anymore, what I replace in milk is the choco flavor of popular brand of milk here in the Philippines

What kind of meals is he picking that cost to much? If you are cooking for a family it shouldn't be to bad

all the meal that my son love to pick is the one that is harder to prefer or a bit pricey for one meal

thanks hatley maybe you are right I put so much amount of food in his plate that he gets so overwhelmed with it. Actually preparing spaghetti is so hard lol, and I don't have a resources that you guys use in your kitchen like a grinding machine or whatsoever, I only use knife in mincing, though sometimes I pay for someone to grind the meat along with the veggie but this feels like I cannot cook the veggie when it is together

will scout for the right kind of shake for his matter. By the way I am actually working in bubblews and my blog, plus some opportunity in different individual online in connection of blogging.

I actually did but he said that he like it all but he seems don't really had an appetite to eat

thanks coffeebreak for the advice, I'll try that next time. I also try to cook recipes that I haven't cook before like ground pork with potatoes and carrots, and menudo a popular dish here in the Philippines, but this time I add a 1 small hot chilli in red and chopped it in a really small that can't be seen in the dish, he liked it and the chili makes him eat more rice this time my only problem now is meat and veggies when together is really pricey

I really need a lot of goodluck, lol. I also trick him last night showing his younger photo that he is cute and a little chubby and somehow I convince him to try a little harder to finish his food

yes , Actually I always ask him what he wants the next day and today he ask me to make Lumpiang shanghai for tomorrow so good luck to me I hope I can make it in no time because I only had a limited time for cooking

You know what I actually go there during their lunch time but some of his friends started to tease him and he ask a favor in me not to watch him eat at the school because some of his classmate are slightly bullied.

They say appebon is it the one in your mind

oh my God looks like we have the same dilemma my son love french fries too but don't like potatoes in the stew or sauteed meal, I also want him to gain more though I feel thankful that he seldom get sick but his looks is more like malnourished to me though some says he is healthy too

my son moves like a typical child that is so hyper, he even attended the class of Taekwondo but this isn't improved his appetite