Months ago our nutritionist recommended that we try and add calories to stuff like fruits and veggies by letting Ryleigh dip them in fruit dip, salad dressing, and what not. To a mom who tries to keep her kid at least somewhat neat (even though I usually fail) it sounded like a ludicrous idea. Plus I felt like the whole "dipping" concept was a little beyond Ryleigh's fine-motor skills at that point in time.
However, yesterday we had a play date with a mom and her son who also went through the whole FTT thing. He was dipping his chicken nuggets in ranch dressing, and doing very well with it, so I decided to let Ryleigh try while she could see someone else do it, and mimic them. And it totally worked. She did so good with dipping her chicken nuggets, honestly I was pretty surprised.
Fast forward to tonight.... The only thing Ryleigh wanted to eat was peas. She turned down a buttered roll, carrots, potatoes, and roast beef.... until I got the idea of putting the gravy on her veggies, and she started eating a few more. Then I thought about putting gravy in a ramakin so she could dip whatever she wanted. And it worked so well! She sat there for a good 10 minutes dipping all her veggies, bread, and beef in the gravy and then gobbling them all up.
For a FTT mom it is so wonderful just to have one good meal in the day. It is a huge stress reliever. So, to actually have the added bonus of adding extra calories with gravy is like Christmas!!
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