My son went through similar food issues. For my son he has trouble chewing due to his Hypotonia, it has hindered him from numerous things. It takes jaw muscles to chew certain foods and our little ones struggle with this. He still severelylimits what he eats, but his hunger pushes him to try new foods. We cut up everything into small pieces so there is naturally less chewing involved. I learned a valuable piece of advice from an ST when he was much younger. Take a small bowl & fill it with ice water. Take a small spoon & dip it in the water before you start feeding him and gently press the spoon to his lips, his outer cheeks & eventually to his inner cheeks. Keep repeating this process in between bites of food. It really helped my son. She described this as waking up his mouth. It may take time for him to accept this routine, but it really did help tremendously in getting him to start chewing foods. Just keep in mind you will need to work at his pace with this method. I never did more than what he accepted and he trusted me because I didn’t push.

Some kids also like vibrating electric toothbrushes, you could try letting him put it to his lips & then work your way up to him opening his mouth. My son used to clamp down on his toothbrush & not let us move the toothbrush. He is gradually accepting & seems to even like the vibrating electric toothbrush. If you take him to an OT, they often work on oral motor issues. Ours has gradually gotten him accustomed to working with him to accept a vibrating oral motor tool to help him with the goal of accepting a toothbrush & it can help with feeding too.

I’ll be honest I spent at least a year introducing various foods to my oldest adopted son Raymond. I would sit at the table eat a bit of food and then regurgitate it all at the table over and over! There wasn’t anything I did but keep introducing him to it until he finally would eat and keep it down. Now he’s still a very picky eater and eats what he eats and that’s it. But he’s eating now! That was the worst period of time! But we made it through. Just hold on be consistent and it will get better....

Try a munchkin fresh food feeder

My son did the same thing. He would not chew or bite anything. If he did eat normal foods, it had to be homemade soups or spaghetti, and he would swallow bites whole without chewing at all. Mostly the only thing he would eat was rice cereal with milk and those squeezy baby food pouches mixed together in a bottle. He did that until he was 3. He's had numerous therapies for it, but none of them have ever really helped much, but he got put into Pre-K for 3 year old's through the state, and after one day of being in school, he dropped the bottle instantly. I guess seeing his peers not drinking out of a bottle made him quit. He has started to gradually bite certain foods, and he chews all of his food now (he is almost 4). I understand how difficult it is to deal with your child not really eating. It is a huge struggle, but it will get better. Oh, and my son loved the electric toothbrushes. I do think that helped some with the sensory and texture issues that he had. Hope you find something that works for you and yours :)

Thats so great.. the power of other peers lol.. i hope he will start eating and having more varieties too.. Thank you for your comment.