My 31/2 year son will only eat pancakes, sweet corn ( the toddler version), green beens ( the bottle one).?

Most kids are picky eaters. My 20 month old son sure is. He will not eat a green bean to save his life. We were doing pediasure to supplement, but that got sooo expensive. Costing us about $50 a week. He was losing weight because of his pickiness, so we though maybe he had stomach or digestive problems. To make a long story short, we ended up taking him to a pediatric gastrointerologist and she suggested giving him Carnation Instant Breakfast. This was to help him gain weight but she said it had a lot of the same vitamins and nutrients as pediasure. So intill he aquires a taste for the greens, I would suggest trying this. It's inexpesive compared to the pediasure.

Incase you don't know what carnation instant breakfast is, it is a powder that you mix with milk. You can either buy it in individual packages or you can buy it in canisters. You can buy it at most supermarkets, I buy it at Wal-Mart. It comes in chocolate, french vanilla, and strawberry. A box of 10 individual packets cost about $5 compared to a 6 pack of pediasure which costs about $9-$10. I hope this helps .

I would just like to add, which you probably already know this, that you always want to check with your child's pediatrician before you add any thing to his diet. Especially if you have him on a multivitamin. Just to make sure he won't be getting too much of a good thing.

No offense, but I think you are coddling him. Let him have his favorite foods several times a week, but give him other foods too. He won't starve. He may skip a few meals and be miserable for awhile, but eventually he will start eating some other foods. He will not like everything, but he will find some new foods he enjoys. I know it sounds harsh but you are not helping him by catering to him. Soon he will be starting pre-school and having playdates. These foods will not be available. I have nieces and nephews whose parents did not become strict when their first born ate only mac and cheese and chocolate. They thought he would grow out of it. He is still insanely picky. You can also mix things up by putting things into the pancakes. You can buy Korean pancake mix and put veggies in the batter, etc.

So his gag reflex is either over sensitive or he has an insensitive mouth, which means he probably should be doing occupational therapy. If you feed him baby food, which sounds like that's all he can tolerate, then that's okay - just make sure it's a nutritious mix of foods with vegetables, fruit, protein... And a liquid vitamin would be a good plan too.

Honestly my 4.5 year old has an insensitive mouth, he would stuff his mouth as he couldn't really feel it and then try to swallow, gag and vomit it all back up, a year ago all he ate was baby food - he still thrived. We also had to feed him. Today he feeds himself his own food, it's not as varied as I'd like but it's getting better and it's less and less baby food, we're now down to one meal a day. It took over a year of therapy and then being in preschool to open him up to new foods, it happened for my son it will happen for yours.

Take him with you to the grocery store. Have him look at all of the foods there is. He might see something he is willing to try. I'd just recommend staying out of the junk food isles. :)