He has joint custody and ever time we get her for the week it’s like we have to start all over with rules. It is a constant uphill battle to get her to eat veggies or drink 100% juice or even water. She doesn’t have to do anything she doesn’t want to do when with her mom. She’s completel spoiled and mainly fed sugar/fast food/pasta/junk food/soda/cool aid. So we are the bad guys. She goes right to crying, saying she wants to go to her moms if we say she has to eat a vegetable. We lose every night. She’ll sit there and cry. She won’t eat them. Not even one. No matter what we say (take away tv, playground, bed now....) she won’t eat them. She’ll get it as far as in her mouth sometimes and cry harder. Same with meats other than chicken (yes even hotdogs) We’ve tried everything (disguising, cheese, ketchup, dressings....) nothing works. It hurts me because I know she’s not getting them on the other week she’s with her mom and I fear for her health. But I also fear her not wanting to come here because we have rules and want her healthy
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Integrate her in the cooking, let her mix, decorate, cookie cut or whatever. Include grated veges inside meatballs that you make yourself, let her make faces on a simple home made vege pizza. Let her make pancakes/flap jacks out of just squashed bananas and a big dollop of unsweetened peanut or almond butter- they are yummy, sweet (because of the banana) and if she makes them herself she will probably eat them or other things. Let her cut stars or hearts out of sliced courgette or squashes or pumpkin. You can also julienne veges to make noodles out of them.
You need to become a bit more adventurous with this one.. maybe the library will have kids cooking books with more ideas. Good luck :-)