Pickiest. Eater. Ever.

Elise has officially become the pickiest eater on the planet. See below the complete list of things that she will eat (and keep in mind that she cannot eat anything with dairy or soy because of her allergies):

• Cut Green beans, no salt added canned only (no frozen, fresh, French style, etc)
• Frozen peas – must be made fresh, will not eat if refrigerated
• Frozen carrots – but only the little square kind that come in peas n’ carrots mixture; will not eat fresh or canned carrots, or frozen carrots that you cut into squares. This makes the list, but she will not eat more than 5 or 6
• Pears – fresh or jarred. Loves.
• Peaches – fresh or jarred, though starting to eat less and less. Might be headed off the list
• Apple – usually only if you are eating it
• Whole wheat toast (I can find one brand that doesn’t have soy protein or milk)
• Whole wheat bagel (ditto about the soy and milk. Will also eat cinnamon raisin bagel if I am eating it but not if it’s hers)
• Waffles (same soy issue. Eggo recently changed their Nutrigrain waffle recipe from dairy and soy free to include both milk and soy. Now we have to buy the very expensive organic kind)
• Pancakes, plain only (will not eat apple pancakes, although she will eat apples and pancakes separately just fine. Must cook from scratch because mixtures contain dairy)
• Pasta – freshly cooked only; will not eat if refrigerated
• Sausage – only BJ’s brand plain sausage; will not even pretend to make any exceptions to this rule. But her love for BJ’s sausage is overwhelming. She would eat 4 at a time if we let her. This is particularly odd because she hates and refuses every other type of meat ever.
• Fried egg – I am putting this on the list to be generous because she actually ate it for the first time today. It is very likely that she will never again eat an egg, but I am feeling optimistic from our experience this morning.
• Cheerios – by the fistful. Will never, ever turn down the opportunity to eat. By far her favorite food
• Honey graham sticks (only kind of cracker on the planet that does not contain soy)
• Gerber sweet potato puffs (only flavor that does not contain soy)

I am not leaving things off this list. It is completely complete. This is the ENTIRE breadth of what our child will eat. At first glance, you may say to yourself "16 things! That's a lot!" but remember that she eats three meals a day, as well as 2-3 snacks. It's impossible to keep an even remotely balanced and healthy diet that doesn't bore her (she gets bored easily) with 16 food items to choose from (especially when there are minimal veggies and fruits). Also keep in mind that she is constantly deleting things off of her list as well. Recently taken off the list (probably because she got sick of it because her repertoire is so small) – and by taken off the list I mean that she used to love but now screams “NOOO!” like a crazy person if you put said food item within 30 feet of her mouth: bananas, cantaloupe, honeydew, grapes, mandarin oranges, sweet potatoes. They're dropping like flies!

Never even on the list: every other food imaginable.