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[quote=Anonymous]We always have milk and fruit. If I am serving something I know they won't like (fish or anything spicy), I also put out nuts on the table and they can have those as a protein. I also usually allow yogurt if they have eaten the milk and tried whatever the vegetable of the day is. But I won't cook a separate meal.

My 7 year old is picky but eats huge quantities of food he likes. My 3.5 year old is not that picky but she eats like a bird at dinner and is unpredictable -- even foods she loves, she may not eat if she doesn't feel like it. She adores green beans and carrots, but she eats them only about 2/3 of the time I serve them. Pasta is hit or miss for no discernable reason.

Given all this, I cook the meal I want to cook. I always put some on their plates and we encourage them to try it. If they drink their milk and eat their fruit they won't be truly hungry, so at that point I usually insist they try the dinner in order to get anything else like yogurt. Sometimes they do and sometimes they don't.[/quote]

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