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[quote=Anonymous]She's picky, she picks at her food, everything is too hot or too cold or too medium, she likes things one day and then not the next, she likes a food and then doesn't like how it's prepared. She complains constantly that she is hungry but then won't eat the food I give her. Part of it is that I do want her to eat healthy foods (if it were up to her she would simply eat baked goods for every meal, the occasional berry, no vegetables, and no proteins). We are not overly restrictive about anything. I read all the stuff about picky eating and do all the stuff you are supposed to do, including:

- composing meals that involve mostly familiar foods, including at least one I know she'll eat, in small portions
- Inviting her to cook with us and be active in preparing meals
- Making meals colorful and inviting
- Not pressuring her to eat anything, not having any banned foods
- Never talking about food as good or bad
- Never bribing her to eat
- Trying to make meals playful and fun
- Providing a shelf with a variety of healthy snack options for self-serve

And so on and so on. I'm so tired. All I hear all day long is "I'm hungry I'm hungry I'm hungry." I feel like 90% of my mental capacity is focused on trying to feed her. I'm waaaaaay passed trying to get her to eat meals with us (she simply will not, she won't eat cooked food, combined foods, anything with meat, any vegetables at all -- we tried this forever and every meal was an exhausting battle because she'd sit and and cry and refuse to touch anything on her plate). I don't do short order cook but I prepare meals from the set of foods she has been known to eat and then try to gently mix in new foods as we go to expand horizons.

But none of this has eliminated the food battles. Today she complained about wanting food literally from the moment she got up until I was tucking her into bed. Every meal I served her, she ate the one thing I knew she'd eat (a muffin, strawberries, some apple sauce), picked at the rest and complained. She told me she was hungry at bedtime so I let her have a piece of bread with butter but I'm honestly angry about it because I don't want my kid to be hungry but WHY IS SHE HUNGRY I DEDICATED MY WHOLE DAY TO FEEDING HER.

Just why. I cannot. I can't take the combination of refusing to eat everything but complaining constantly about being hungry. What the heck am I supposed to do here.[/quote]

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