Thank you Everybody! good stuff
And about sugar, I have a zero sugar, zero preservatives for him.
The most 'junk' he eats is some pizza or pasta every other week.
Thanks God he loves his lentils, pumpkin, green bens and peas. Beats and brocoli too.
Most times he will acept spleat pea or barley, but not among his favorites.
He is into tantrums, but I don't give in to those. He surrender easily as they don't work.
Now, you are right, if he puts one away, I put 20 and he takes the 21 back out... he still put one in and that is my glass half full!!!
Back to budget, I researched further into city parks and they are well equiped and they finally re-opened the pool at my clmplex, so we had a wonderful free pool day yesterday, he had a blast!.. And he went to sleep on time!
I tried a local parents group and it didn't work out very well, but there are others I can try. They say try 2-3 before finding one that works for me.