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[quote=Anonymous]Get an evaluation. There are food clinics and professionals that will help you with this. It sounds like the issue is more behavioral than medical, but I’m not an expert so first rule out behavioral issues.

DH and I come from cultures where picky eating is strongly discouraged. Contra the prevailing advice not to make your kids eat stuff, we did. Sometimes they would fuss and some developmental stages were worse than others. But we didn’t give in to serving special meals, and when they were little we didn’t have snacks between meals and started with only vegetables. Now they are 5 & 9 and pretty much eat everything. Once in a while they say they don’t like this or that, and we talk about why eating a variety of foods is important. We also give them more choices and snacks. YMMV but I think for the behavioral stuff you’re doing the right thing. 4 is still young enough to change habits. I would cut snacks completely and only do fruit, veggies, and water between meals. Keep mealtime positive, model enthusiasm about new foods, have him help in the kitchen and offer incentives and praise for trying new things. I would ignore (like totally turn off the attention and turn away) tantrum or fussing behavior, and really praise any small tastes, offer rewards and so on to make the behavior stick.  [/quote]

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