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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid eats:
PB&J
Pasta that he dips in hummus
Bacon
Yogurt with granola
Apples (2-4 per day)
Chicken nuggets 
Raw baby spinach
Quesadilla 
Cheese and crackers 
Pizza
Cantaloupe
mango
cucumber slices 
Muffins
Toaster waffles

That’s pretty much it. No burgers or hot dogs. No sandwiches. 
No sauces on food. No dipping sauce except hummus. 
Ped says he eats too many food for feeding therapy. We just let him eat from his rotation. On the bright side - he can and will eat the same thing every day. When we were home for the early pandemic, he ate PB&J, apple slices, and milk for lunch every day from mid-March until the end of June. 7 days a week. When he was 3 or 4, I made him Annie’s Mac and cheese every day for 6 months. [/quote]

He’s 8. A lot of these foods he added in the last 18 months. Today he told me he ate salsa at camp and I nearly fainted. We dropped the rope years ago OP and we’re all happier. He takes vitamins. He will drink Ensure and smoothies with greens or protein powder included. His pickiness is not my failure as a parent and is not a rejection of my cooking or rejection of my love. It’s just a quirk of who he is and he will try new foods when he is ready. We make them available and when he does eat something new we don’t make a big deal if it. 
We also play a game where we go to a store and pick out a new pastry or a new cheese we don’t know and he gladly tries them. Once we went to a bakery where all the signs were in a foreign language. We picked an assortment of things and tried them as a family. It doesn’t translate directly into trying new foods, but is a fun way to try new flavors and textures in a low stakes way. [/quote]

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