[lisaly]

Originally Posted by Lizzie07

One of the other things with my seniors seem is getting picky about their food. Anyone else have this problem? I've spent so much trying to find stuff they find palatable. I've even bought lamb, not cheap meat to see if I could get them to eat. I made soups, stews, casseroles, you name it, trying to get them to eat. It can really be tough to find something they will eat. I'd love to know what others have tried.

Ashley ate a little bit of kibble daily, but I always home cooked for her. It definitely got difficult finding things to get her to eat that she would enjoy. I'd cook a variety of things, and we always got her to eat unless she wasn't feeling well, but I often had to try more than one thing. I also had a number of medications to try to get her take with the food, so that made it more difficult and urgent to get her to eat. I think when I spoke about finding something for her to eat it was so matter of fact that I didn't realize others might think she was highly spoiled. I wouldn't really care if they did. I am a high school teacher with students in a small class setting, and some of them asked about Ashley regularly. They loved asking what Ashley ate for dinner, and I could tell that the ones that were asking weren't doing it to mock me. Although it was frustrating, it was also funny. If I picked up something on the outside for her that I know she liked, and I got it from a different restaurant than her favorite one, she wouldn't eat it. I gave her anything she would eat, as long as it was healthy and it didn't bother her stomach. She had problems with gas pockets from swallowing too much air because of her trachea, but it didn't really affect what foods she could eat. Fortunately, Ashley never had pancreatitis, so I didn't have to worry about that. She'd go at times eating and loving one food and then refusing to eat it after a while. She was a very funny little girl. It was definitely more challenging to get her to eat when she had dementia, and I had to be persistent with her. I know most people would think it was ridiculous, but most nights when I asked my husband what he thought he'd like to be eating, his usual response was, "What do you think Ashley would like most?"