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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our kids are necessarily picky, but what they will eat ebbs and flows. We are really struggling with food waste and food expenses.

There are so many schools of thought: no dessert, clean your plate, no snacks etc. Nothing seems to land right, but we find ourselves with lots of leftovers and kids who won’t eat it.

They’re not big dinner eaters, but DH LOVES dinner. Should he make his own dinner, and the kids and I eat breakfast, lunch, and a “snack dinner”? Sometimes I’ll do blue apron for DH and I and “kid dinner” for them.

I’m honestly not sure what I’m asking. We are just overall frustrated with food waste and expenses.[/quote]

Families should eat together for at least one meal every day.  Home is not a fast food drive through. The entire family sitting down to a meal and taking about their day, school, and I my house current events.

Why are your children necessarily picky eaters?  I followed my mother's example (who worked outside the home once the youngest was in school).  Meals were served family style and there were no picky eaters.

I've told this story before about my sister's son who would only eat pizza, spaghetti, and McDonald's burgers and fries.  They came to visit us one summer and I made my usual meals of a meat, vegetables, salad, and a desert.

She was furious that I hadn't served any of the three foods he would eat.  Interestingly, he ate everything served and even asked for seconds of the vegetables.
It finally dawned on her that he had been playing her all along

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