skipping meals

Today at breakfast, my brother informed he is skipping meals because he thinks the food the nursing home provides is "not healthy".  So I asked him for examples.  The first thing he mentioned was eggs and orchestral, which I thought was kind of strange because he was eating eggs at that very moment.  Then he mentioned pasta alfredo.

My brother has been fixating on what kind of food he can and can't eat for quite a while.  He thinks vegetables and fruit give him the runs, and he won't eat cheese at all.  At least most of the time it's the case unless he thinks otherwise on that particular day.

So my reply was that he had two choices:  either eat what they provided for him or ask for one of the substitues that they always provide.  He told me that it was only peanut butter and jelly which I know is not the case.  I mentioned that the critical element was portion, and since they control portions at the nursing home, I thought he could eat anything he wanted, and that he should not be skipping meals.

A budding eating disorder is not something I particularly want to deal with.  It has come and gone in the past 10 years.  I am going to have to track this.