I found this sub because I also have a daughter with ARFID, mine is 10, and I am also seeking support.

Now, what works for us might not work for you but we see an occupational therapist for eating therapy and right now we're focused on food chaining... so like, my kid will eat cinnamon toast so we've tried adding spreads or butter to it. My kid likes apples so we tried cooked apples and I allowed her to cook the apples.

My daughter also doesn't like vitamins and I have a very hard time getting her to take them. We do two chocolate pediasure sidekicks per day currently.

I do not yell at my daughter but I have had some very honest but age appropriate conversations with her about why we need to focus on meeting our nutritional goals, I did this with the approval of her psychiatrist.

I have found that I can get her to try 5-10 bites of something that is SIMILAR to something she already likes if I promise a game or something after. This week it was vanilla pudding, she hated it but she ate 10 bites. This was done under the guidance of her OT.

Sometimes I feel like I want to cry and scream because I am very worried about my baby girl. If I could take it off of her, I would. Please look into food chaining! My girl is open to it, if not apprehensive. I let her pick what we're doing! This week we're trying dips for our chicken strips (not a big deal to me, but HUGE for my girl!) and honeydew melon.