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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]While I do think there are some legit picky eaters, I also think of you give your toddler Mac n cheese, hot dogs and nuggets on a regular basis that is what they are going to want....... [b]If you don’t give them those foods they won’t eat them[/b]. [/quote]

I mean, I know no one is doing play dates now (hopefully), but when your kids go to other kids' houses, they will likely be exposed to these kinds of foods.  Or at school (back when we had school).  I wouldn't imagine it would be easy to find a kid who has never been given mac and cheese, hot dogs, or chicken nuggets.[/quote]

Yeah, that's mostly where my kid (now 7) was exposed to these things (I don't see anything wrong with homemade mac and cheese?)

And... she did try them, and she did like them, and we have them at parties, playdates, occasionally, like... at a hot dog stand at the beach or something. Which is fine with me.

But there was no way she could "demand" them for dinner every night, because we just don't regularly keep them in our house to serve.

She's been [i]exposed[/i] to them-- of course she has. She can't "want them all the time" because 1) they're not really options here and 2) she's not a relatively rare, extreme picky eater who only eats 6 specific foods or will choose to starve.   [/quote]

Like, there's no "once they get a taste for Kraft Mac and Cheese on a play date, there's no going back!!!" for most kids. Or there doesn't have to be.[/quote]

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