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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I spend hours each week planning, shopping, cooking, and preparing 90% of our family’s meals and my six year old is driving me up the wall. He refuses, unless coerced (“three bites of all new foods” “clean plate club or no screens after dinner” etc), to try any new foods. We spent years playing it cool, putting it on his plate and telling him he didn’t have to try it if he didn’t want to, etc and it did absolutely nothing. Everything he tastes he says he doesn’t like, and 50% of the time he gags when he is coerced into trying it. He will not try basic things—even sweet things, like cake or toast with jam or a different flavor of muffin! Foods he does like are rejected if they are cut in a different shape. He will not eat ANY convenience foods—yogurt, pizza, mac n cheese, quesadillas, chicken nuggets, nothing. I am just so frustrated by the unwillingness to TRY and the immediate rejection of everything after tasting it, without even thinking of whether or not it could potentially taste good. 
I’m not very sure if I’m looking for advice, I just need to rant. Most resources for picky eating are for toddlers, and playing little games or cutting things into fun shapes is not going to convince a six year old.[/quote]

Put the food on the table and that's that.  He eats or goes hungry.  If he doesn't eat then he is excused from table and gets ready for bed.  He does this to get attention and you are letting him win.  I told this story before but I'll repeat for your brnefit.  My sister's son came to visit and stay with us for two weeks one summer.  At his house he would only eat pizza, PB&grape jelly sandwiches, and french fries from McDonald's.  I put dinner on the table and told him this was dinner in my house--no pizza, no PB&K, no Mac fries.  Eat or go hungry.  It was a simple dinner and he ate everything.  He also told me that he was only picky at home because he knew his mother would give him all her attention.

You are the parent and his boss
  Stop letting him rule the dinner table.
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