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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have two picky eaters (5 and 2).  Our dinner "rules" are much simplier than PPs:

1.  Mommy puts food on your plate, the same food as everyone else's,  you eat what you want.
2.  Not one word about what is yucky, or what you wish you were having (you're not getting anything else).
3.  You cannot get up from the table until everyone is done.

Some nights they eat a balanced meal, some nights they don't eat a single bite (I serve basic meals, chicken,  potoates and brocoli; fish, rice and peas).   They eat enough healthy options during the day that missing dinner wont hurt them - but fighting and hearing complaining will hurt me!  
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My kids are 8 and 11 and this is basically what I have always done.  The food battle can quickl;y get out of control and I remeber being a child and sitting, staring at my squash for hours after dinner, unable to leave until I ate it, all alone at the kitchen table.  Awful.

I am lucky my kids like many different things and have always been open to many vegetables.  Meat is more of the issue for us.  Anyway, as they have gotten older, I ask for their in put on meals (broccolli or green beans; steak or chicken) and try to have meals where everyone like at least one thing.  You have to have a bite of everything unless you utterly and totally hate it (like squash for me) but not because its just not your favorite.  Bottom line, eat what you want of what I serve for dinner, or dont but that is it for the night.  If they want dessert they know they better have eaten a healthy amount of dinner.  I try to make dinner a protein and vegetable meal as much as possible because it is healthier.[/quote]

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