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[quote=Anonymous]I did not intend to be this mom.  I read Ellyn Satter and try to follow the "parents decide what to serve, kids decode how much to eat" mantra.  And for a while, that seemed to work fine.  Served a good variety of foods and early on both my kids ate almost anything.  Even when they started becoming progressively more picky around age 2, they would consistently eat breakfast and daycare-provided lunch, so I didn't really sweat it when they turned up their nose at dinner.  After the covid closures daycare did not return to providing lunch and now my oldest is starting school anyway (and reportedly whatever the schools are serving these days is gross).  Being on the hook for now providing lunch is driving me crazy because they whine incessantly about it.  The younger one went with the flow for a while but took his older brother's lead and complains too.  Most of the time they ask at breakfast what I packed for lunch and unless it's sunbuter/jelly, they complain.  DS flipped a lid when I sent a tuna wrap and he used to eat fish happily.  If I hear one more time that "Larlo brings candy every day" I'm going to scream.   And they still don't eat much for dinner and whine about that too.

Anyway, I find myself being sucked into food battles more and more and need a reset.  I don't want to cave and send only what I know they 100% like (e.g., sunbutter and jelly) but I don't want to waste a ton of food and have them be cranky because they didn't eat enough.  How do you find that balance?[/quote]

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