Chicken!

I've been trying to start food trials again to add on to Kara's menu but she has not been eating well lately. It's hard to trial a food when she won't eat anything!!!

We got really brave one night last week while making supper and decided to trial (GASP!!!) CHICKEN! (Remember my turkey Thanksgiving post? No poultry...) It's on our "Common Trigger Foods" list on our fridge but she'd had it here and there before. This was all prior to us being anywhere near a baseline with her but I always sort of wondered if it'd work or not. Chicken is a staple in our house so it's been even more difficult to come up with meals lately and making a separate meal for Kara three times a day gets difficult. That's for a later post though...

So, we gave her a few bites, I think two nights in a row. It was hard telling her symptoms because we've been dealing with the effects of this cold that she's had too. In the chaos of our lives, we stopped it. I've been incredibly frustrated again at every meal lately. She.will.not.eat.anything.

Tonight I gave her some hamburger with ketchup in it, usually a favorite. She squealed in her chair and threw her spoon - hey, at least we've graduated from throwing entire plate when she's not happy with what's on her tray! I gave her some balls...I mean, peas. This usually goes over well - a good squish with her finger and then she picks each one up and eats it. She pushed this away and squealed. I put some jelly on some of her special bread. She smiled, took a bite and then was mad again. I had her sit at the table with us and Brian cooked up some chicken breasts we had in the fridge. I gave her a few bites of that (with the ketchup, of course!) and she ate them right up! She shocked me! The first challenge of a food challenge is always getting her to eat the food. She successfully had a good size serving of chicken tonight and loved it. I'm REALLY hoping that it loves her too!