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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][twitter][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think part of it is persistence and part - luck.  For the first part, you eat the way you do at home and you tell your kid that other people might eat differently, but that’s what we do at home.  Involve your kids in food shopping, planning and prep as early as possible, teach them how to cook basic stuff.

My two oldest are young adults and live on their own with their respective partners.  Both cook a lot, both eat reasonably healthy - I’d like to think I had something to do with that.

Now to the luck part.  I rarely eat out or order delivery, most food in my home is cooked from scratch.  But there are certain things and foods that I just don’t eat, and that’s that.  It’s mostly a texture thing for me, I am picky this way and I doubt anyone could do anything about it.  My mom tried, it didn’t go well.[/quote]

We do involve him the kitchen because he enjoys helping us meal prep and bake. He is in daycare and tells us all the snacks his friends bring. I feel guilty at times like I’m depriving him of a fun childhood.[/quote]

So make something equally great for him that is homemade and healthy. There are a lot of kids snacks where you can make a homemade version at home such as granola bars, muffins etc. [/quote]

We do but he’s been asking for fruit snacks ( we do fruit leather instead), goldfish ( we do almond flour crackers instead), store bought freeze pops, ice cream, and pizza often. We try to limit a lot of this stuff while he is growing.[/quote]

You can make your own healthy fruit snacks out of fruit juice. And honestly lol at almond crackers as a sub for gold fish. Why don’t you make your own gold fish crackers? Plenty of recipes online. I say this as a mom who is pretty into healthy eating but be for real. Also if you are fine with store bought freeze pops and ice cream and pizza often, I’m not sure why you draw the line at gold fish??[/quote]

The simple mills crackers are great ingredients and good. He likes them. I make homemade cheese crisps ( literally baked cheese) but he wants what the other kids have.

We don’t let him drink juice. Most of them have added sugar and are ultra processed.

I think you misread. I listed what he’s been asking for and what do as alternative. He asks for pizza, freeze pops, and ice cream often but we don’t let him eat it often. That’s the foods I said he’s been asking for more often.

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