Boy thrives on jam sandwich diet

[grinner]

Boy thrives on jam sandwich diet
By David Sapsted
(Filed: 23/06/2004)

A teenager who has existed on a diet of jam sandwiches for more than a decade has been given a clean bill of health.


Although Craig Flatman, 15, has eating habits that would make a nutritionist shudder, a dietician concluded last week that the 6ft 1in, 11-stone youngster was getting "adequate protein and some vitamins and minerals".

But the dietician did tell his parents that the teenager should see a behavioural psychologist in an attempt to alter his eating habits.

Craig would not eat solids as a baby until he ate a sugar sandwich. Aged four he started eating only sandwiches made from white, sliced bread, margarine and strawberry, raspberry or blackcurrant jam. He drinks two pints of semi-skimmed milk a day but the only other food he touches is chocolate cereal for breakfast and a daily slice of chocolate cake.

"I never get bored of jam because I like the taste so much," said Craig, of Stowmarket, Suffolk, yesterday. "The doctors told me I would grow out of it, but I don't know if I will ever change.

"My mum and dad have tried everything to get me eating other things but nothing seems to work."link (http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/06/23/njam23.xml)
This reminds me of my sister-in-law's son... the kid doesn't eat anything... but sugar and breakfast cereal.

[trinamick]

It's amazing to me that parents CAN'T get their kid to eat anything else. I don't think we were ever given an option. Eat what you are given or starve was the motto in our house.

[generic_screenname]

98% of my meals between the ages of 5-13 consisted of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. I never bought a school lunch, but I used collect the yellow lunch ticket envelopes and make little puppet characters.

And I turned out all right :D

[Shipscat]

That is ONE *spoiled* kid.

They should have taken away everything he *would* eat years ago, and he would have eaten whatever was there.

[I-am-so-Johns-girl]

98% of my meals between the ages of 5-13 consisted of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. I never bought a school lunch, but I used collect the yellow lunch ticket envelopes and make little puppet characters.

And I turned out all right :D
You think so???? :spew: :innocent: :no: :P

Girlie :curtsey:

[grinner]

have to ask Johnsgirl about that...

[generic_screenname]

It seems that I drive her crazy sometimes. But it's intentional, you know, to make sure things don't get boring.

[AgentSun]

i know a family who has 2 kids who will not eat anything but fast food. they're i think 6 and 8 and they will not eat anything else but fast food. their mother can't get them to do anything else and they're both a bit overweight. they're decent parents, but at school all they get from the cafeteria is pizza and macaroni and cheese so they come home and won't eat a thing their mother makes them. so she's forced to either let them starve all the time or get them something moderately healthy, but tricking them to believe that it's just fast food. i feel bad for those kids, they're aready getting overweight from just everything they eat at school. it's an influence from their dad because he doesn't eat anything but meat. he hates vegetables.

[who45]

Where I used to teach, the kids could bring breaksfast as long as it was already prepared. I would say that over half would bring potato chips, cake or cookies for breakfast every morning.

[scrape_medic]

I think a diet that includes two pints of milk a day is likely to provide more protein than the kind of diet that include fast food burgers and sweets. The bread provides the carbohydrates, (though it would be better if it was wholegrain), and the jam some vitamins I suppose......

I have heard of worse diets, alot worse and at least he is not overwieght like some of the kids are these days.

[Mrelia]

My daughter tried the "picky eater" thing for about two weeks. After going to bed hungry half the nights because what I fixed wasn't what she wanted, she just eats whatever I make for her.

Going hungry for a few nights or even a week or two isn't going to hurt a child as long as THEY are rejecting the foods, not having food withheld.

[Third EYe]

....but I used collect the yellow lunch ticket envelopes and make little puppet characters.

And I turned out all right :D


yes, yes you did.

(ok fellas, you distract him while I throw the net, he's going back in the box dammit)

[Third EYe]

I was never a picky eater, if it didn't move, I'd eat it, and if it wasn't too fast, I'd catch it and eat it.

[LT Garrix]

My daughter tried the "picky eater" thing for about two weeks. After going to bed hungry half the nights because what I fixed wasn't what she wanted, she just eats whatever I make for her.

Going hungry for a few nights or even a week or two isn't going to hurt a child as long as THEY are rejecting the foods, not having food withheld.

I'm with you here. I don't have kids yet, but I guarantee you that I would not cater to their food wants. I like to eat healthy, for the most part anyway, and well, the kids would eat what I do. I only do fast food about once a month. I figure that's good enough.

[who45]

yes, yes you did.

(ok fellas, you distract him while I throw the net, he's going back in the box dammit):lol

[AgentSun]

i traveled a lot when i was younger...new york, chicago, san diego...i ate foods of all kinds and my mother always exposed me to new and different kinds of food. i am a picky eater, but i'm a picky eater in what i do eat, not what i don't. i love japanese food, but i'm picky about what kinds of japanese food i eat (i won't eat anything raw). so it still gives me a lot of options...my mom never let me go "i don't like carrots" and never exposed me to them. i learned to like carrots, but only a specific way they were cooked. for instance, i like raw carrots, and carrots in soup, but i hate cooked carrots that are crunchy. if it's crunchy it has to be cold.