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My kid only eats one thing?
My 11 y/o daughter used to eat many different types of foods, vegetables, fruit, meat, etc... even if she didn't care for a particular vegetable, she'd still manage to eat it anyways.
Since about three weeks ago, she's only wanted to eat one thing for breakfast, lunch, and dinner: Two scrambled eggs and one maple sausage. Sometimes she'll have orange juice/ a breakfast essential drink to go with it.
I've tried arguing, offering special meals, but she only wants to stick with eggs and sausage. I'm worried she might eventually lack the nutrients she needs.
Is this just a phase?
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Sounds much like a bit of a 'food-fad' which are quite common at such ages. I recall a phase of driving my mum (an excellent cook) mad by insisting on instant packet mashed potato instead of proper mashed potatoes. The orange juice/breakfast drink is a good sign. Natural vitamins on fresh juice, and the preparations often are enriched with others too. Check the labels, you'll see exactly which she's getting a good dose of. Egg's are great sources of protein. I believe many of the older 'too much cholesterol' arguments have been discredited lately? Eggs are good again! Obviously, too much of the same diet is not a good idea. Vegetables are good, but making a girl of 11 to 15 eat plenty of vegetables is notorioulsy difficult anyway. The anti-vegetable phase seems curiously common for a spell. Try telling her they're essential to keep her complexion clear and free of spots. Even if she doesn't like them shell probably have that fear of being spotty! Three weeks is not an awfully long time. I'd suggest you monitor it, and try to encourage her to mix things up a bit. But don't 'bully' her into things as that's a great way of setting an eleven year-old girl gainst anything! Good luck. At least she's not cramming sugary drinks, candy and junk-food down her mouth non-stop. That's a big thing here in the UK (where I live) amongst kids and teens and it's almost certainly storing up plenty of future medical problems for them.
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Try talking to her about it. If not satisfied with what she tells you then take her to the doctor and discuss with them what is up. My suspicion is that she may have classmates who told her if you get X,Y,Z meal all the time you'll lose weight or not be fat and or she got this message somewhere.
She may have eating related problems you don't know about and or developing.Are you sure she has been eating and keeping down all that you have fed her in the 3 weeks prior? This sounds odd for only beginning 3 weeks ago.
You need to emphasize that she can eat whatever she wants but limiting her diet to one thing only will screw up her diet and growth.
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As her mother, you have a responsibility to see to it that she eats well balanced meals. You need to insist on at least 1 generous serving daily of both vegetables and fruits.
Your 11 year old daughter will suffer for an inadequate diet. Something will go wrong.
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It is very possibly a phase or it could be a sign that something is wrong. I notice that what she is asking for is very soft warm food. I'm no doctor or dentist but it might very well be she is having a problem with her teeth and does not want to go to the dentist.
I would suggest two things.
1. Schedule a check up with a pediatric dentist for a complete dental check up. Make sure to tell the dentist about what she only will eat. This may be a hint of what he or she needs to look for.
2. Since school will be starting or may have started already you have a good reason to schedule a complete physical for her with your family doctor. See the dentist first then the family doctor.
If both find nothing wrong I suggest you try my mothers way of handling this problem. My mother told us, "I cook one meal for all of us." "You either eat it or you don't." "If you want something different from what I make you can make it yourself." That was providing we were old enough to use the things we need to like the stove or oven. "she also said if we made our own meals we had to clean up after ourselves or we could not cook for ourselves."
It's funny but my sister and I became much less picky after we made our own dinners a few times.
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