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[quote=Anonymous]DS is incredibly picky -- at almost 3, he still absolutely refuses to eat any fruits or vegetables.  Except broccoli, and applesauce.  Sometimes.  So I don't have the answer for you.

What we've been doing, which obviously isn't working, is always offering him a meat, a starch, and a veggie.  Sometimes we put the veggie on the plate, sometimes it's just on the table and we ask if he wants it.  (sometimes he freaks out having it on his plate)  If he says no, sometimes we talk about how important it is to grow big and strong and about how his little sister, who's only 9 months, is going to get bigger than him b/c she eats fruits and vegetables and he doesn't.  This never works.  More often we just offer and when he says no, we let it go but talk lots to one another about how much WE are enjoying that particular vegetable.

There's a certain threshhold he has to pass to get dessert -- e.g., he has to have all his rice and some of his meat, or all his meat and some of his rice, or a certain number of bites of each -- so that I feel like he's gotten enough nutrition and is not going to fill up on dessert.  This is usually effective in getting him to eat more of what I know he likes, rather than stopping early b/c he wants dessert.

Every once in a while I get ambitious and tell him he needs to try one bite of a vegetable if he wants dessert.  This has never worked.  Not once.  The closest I've come is that he has put a bite in his mouth, screaming and crying, and then spit it out.  Not likely to make him inclined towards that particular vegetable, so I try not to force it.

We serve broccoli a lot, and applesauce a lot.  Sometimes he won't eat those, either, but sometimes he will eat scary amounts of each -- like an entire huge head of broccoli -- what I thought would be sufficient for the whole family.

And Flintstones.

Would love to find the solution to get him to eat more vegetables, but so far nothing has worked.[/quote]

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