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[quote=Anonymous]I totally sympathize. It is a long road and all those articles that say, just cut it in fun shapes! have them cook with you! grow a garden! are all useless with the truly food rejecting child.

That was my DS. For years and years and years. We early on did the "try a bite" "no thank you bite" etc. but it just made meal times a misery so finally DH and I agreed to stick fully to the Satter Division of Responsibility approach. That is, I serve a variety of foods, always include something I know he'll eat, and we shut up about it. Snacks limited to one after school, no grazing. We don't talk about who is eating what at the meal, the only food talk is to compliment the cook. It's hard. It is not in any way a quick fix but he did start eating a greater variety in middle school, probably because the cafeteria served more variety and he started going out with friends and would eat what they ate. It got a lot better in high school to the extent that we went out to dinner before he left for college and he actually *chose* to have a salad (!)

And, even in the years that he felt like all he ate was cereal and bread, his pediatrician commented that she rarely saw a kid stick so closely to the growth curve on the charts they follow. So, somehow he was getting what he needed. He's now a slim 6'1" and eats a wide variety of foods but still doesn't have a huge appetite. [/quote]

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