That’s the mark of people who are doing it for fashion, not necessity.
There are gluten intolerant people who can drink barley only beer as the gluten protein is slightly different, but a wheat beer would be no chance.
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South Park did an episode making fun of people who are gluten free because it’s fashionable. It was pretty funny.
FTFY
Even though I don’t even watch it anymore, and never did on a regular basis, it’s funny and it’s in my base experience set.
South Park is offensive, crude, childish, in poor taste, and arguably the best sociopolitical commentary on television. I don’t watch it, but I’m glad it’s there.
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I see your GF tea, coffee (BTW, some of those flavored coffees at DD or Timmy’s can’t be trusted to be truly GF), juice & rice and raise you non-GMO Himalayan Rock Salt.
Oh, jeebus christopher.
Yeah, I’m about to post a new thread about ridiculous product descriptions.
He gagged on a bottle that was too heavily enhanced yesterday at noon, didn’t eat for 24 hours. He made up for it today though on a simple 3:1 formula:Soylent blend. And watered down apple juice; again, I think he was a bit dehydrated. We also beat Lego Batman 2 again, so there is that.
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What’s your pediatrician’s take on this? No harm no foul, they’ll grow out of it?
There was one awful occasion where they did a barium swallow test on Siglet Prime.
Imagine trying to force radioactive gray slime down the throat of your child, who already hates anything that is not oatmeal and has a profoundly developed set of lungs and sense of outrage. The medical people all hid at the other end of the room.
Other than that (which concluded there was nothing wrong with him other than being a jerk), no one has any bright ideas that we haven’t tried. They both did occupational therapy and feeding groups, and even improved slightly in the sense that they would occasionally touch things. But Siglet Secundus was so stubborn at those that if the other kids couldn’t make it and it was just going to be him, they would cancel the session entirely rather than be stared down for an hour.
How old are your kids @sig? My oldest niece had issues like this but she was nowhere near as picky or as stubborn, and she’s pretty much grown out of it by now (she’s 7). Your kids have some crazy willpower.
4 and 7. I was a picky eater as a child; my parents think this is all hilarious and have no sympathy.
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Yeah, I’m really hoping that I can laugh at my kids if they ever have children of their own. I suspect my sympathy quotient will be severly lacking too 
I just had to do this:
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I can pretty consistently get #2 to drink bottles which are 1:3 (Soylent:formula), and often with a squeeze of the fruit puree. This is progress of a sort. Part of the trick is to add more water; by-the-book Soylent is thicker even than the enhanced formula we’ve been giving him, so we thin it out a little. Bonus: he drinks more water. He’s had three such bottles this evening since about 5; that’s a bit more than average. About 1/2 of the Soylent scoop’s worth, probably, plus the formula.
Well, hopefully they are getting enough of what they need to grow. Of course, the older they get the harder they can fight. You don’t want to be wrestling a 16-year old in 9 years.
I used to tease my youngest brother (14 years difference between us) that he was getting too heavy, so I was going to tell Mom we needed to cut back on feeding him.
A 16 year old can make his own damn drink. Or starve.
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Somehow, someway, they are growing. I often think of Yoda’s first impression of Luke and his rations: “How you get so big, eating food of this kind?” #2 is kinda short for a four-year-old, but he’s got my genes to contend with, too (lots of short people on both sides of my family, including me).
I’ve been sneaking a quarter-cup of bone broth into #2’s bottles with success (the taste isn’t very strong), which gives him another level of nutrition. I can get some of the meaty baby food into his bottles, too, if he’s not looking too closely.
I’m still fairly thankful that they’re not hooked on something like noodles, hot dogs, chicken nuggets, etc. The “foods” they WILL eat are at least portable, and not entirely unhealthy. It’s just really hard not to go into rage/despair mode when they refuse even the limited food they will eat.
And then he looks at you like this. For hours.
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D’awwwwww!
There are advantages to being a heartless bastard. Youngest turns the waterworks on and I don’t move an inch. She has to pull herself together, stop whining, and then we can have a conversation about it.
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