Meat

Rick and I have hoped for this day to come for a long time...Jackson ate MEAT!!!! Well, a different meat but this is a huge step for him. Let me give you a little back story to explain....

Jackson is such a picky eater and has been since he was born. He doesn't eat any vegetables, except iceberg lettuce with lots of ranch dressing on it. He eats maybe one banana every 4-6 weeks and that is his only fruit. He started eating bacon last September and that is the only meat he has ever eaten. At one time he ate a lot of peanut butter but completely cut that out a few months ago. We were afraid he was going to have some sort of nutritional deficiency. His new food for the past few months is grilled cheese. You have to understand that he doesn't eat sandwiches so eating this was a big step as well. Let me assure you that he takes a multivitamin daily. Poor fella needs all the supplements he can get.

Jackson's approved food list includes certain breakfast cereals, bacon, pop tarts, maple and brown sugar instant oatmeal, pancakes, cinnamon rolls, grilled cheese sandwiches, cheese quesadillas, tortilla chips with rotel dip, cheese pizza, spaghetti, lasagna, macaroni and cheese, peanut butter granola bars, certain cereal bars, and most sweets (brownies, ice cream, cookies, candy bars, etc.). Yes, this is a long list of items (which is wonderful) but even with foods he likes he is extremely picky about the look of the food. He turned down a grilled cheese one day because the cheese was oozing out the side of the bread. He once refused to eat a grilled cheese because there was a WRINKLE in the bread. He doesn't eat the crust of his pizza or the crust of his grilled cheese sandwiches. He picks the meat out of his spaghetti and lasagna. He's so weird--LOL!!

Yesterday I asked him what he wanted for lunch and he said he wanted chicken nuggets. I had little confidence that he would eat them but we pulled into Wendy's anyway and ordered him a four-pack of nuggets. Can you believe that he ate ALL of them?!?!?! I don't know what made him suddenly decide to ask for them but I am so proud of him. I wish I had taken pictures of this milestone. Hopefully this is just the beginning of the end of Jackson's picky eating. Let's keep our fingers crossed!!!!