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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Don't make this how you spend your 50 percent time with him. It's not even that limited.[/quote]

+1.

The one thing I would change is that whole "won't even look at or touch the new food." You can request that he TRY the comically small amount of his choice of any given food. Accept that he will dislike all of them. Keep on doing what you're doing but instead of introducing foods you think he'll like, I'd have fun with him putting (I keep deleting modifiers because I don't want to characterize things other people or other cultures enjoy as "weird," or "crazy") foods on the table that maybe none of you have ever tried before and making it a game you do together. (As long as he's having fun doing it.)

And meals can still be enjoyable but you may have to change YOU-- focus less on what's being eaten (or on making perfect meals-- if you're asking your SS to try new foods, you and your husband can force down burgers or spaghetti or whatever while he's around) and more on the conversation/games/treating your SS like the young adult his mom doesn't seem to realize he's becoming.[/quote]

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