Gummy Vs Real Food Challenge

Bryce has a sensory processing disorder. It affects his eating and his sense of touch. He also has what is referred to as food aversion. He has been in eating therapy on and off for about 2 years now. We try really hard to find ways that he will want to try and eat new things or eat more of things that he sometimes will eat but usually won't. He loves to watch a channel on YouTube called Kid City and sometimes they do fun things. One of the things they did was a gummy vs real food challenge. Bryce loved it and wanted to do it. PERFECT! 

We have done it several times now. Here is how we do it. We find and buy different gummy foods and then also buy the real food version. I cut the real food into bite size pieces and the gummys if needed. Then we use a dice and take turns rolling. We play several rounds. If you roll an odd number you eat a gummy, if you roll an even number you eat the real thing. We can get him to eat a lot of food that way-we have done peaches, apples, pickles, pizza, hot dogs, soft pretzels, and lots of other fruit. Usually he will eat the fruit pretty well. When we did the pizza he took a small bite but that was better than nothing. 

I was super excited when I found some gummy hamburgers and fries. Bryce has never eaten hamburger in his life. Not on tacos or anything not even a small piece. He has never even had a hamburger from somewhere like McDonald's and he is almost 6 years old. 

We took our dice and our gummys and headed to IN and OUT Burger. I was hopeful because he had really been more willing in trying things using the gummy vs real food challenge. He ate the fries no problem, but unfortunately not the hamburger. He would take a very small bite of the bun. But he got super upset and just couldn't do the actual hamburger. He did lick it and take a microscopic nibble but that was it. We didn't push it. I guess at least he held it in his hands and hopefully in the future he will actually eat it. 

 Oh yeah they was even a cola gummy but there was no way he was trying the Coke, but that's okay I'm fine if he never likes soda-LOL. 

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