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[quote=Anonymous]So our kids have always eaten salad and fruit and veggies.  For a while, though, about 5 years ago, we had a neighbor's child for 2.5 months while the parents were back 'home' dealing with a family issue.  That child would not eat a fruit or veggie to save her life or mankind.  I tried everything.  Our 5 kids tried everything.  We all thought something horrible had happened to her when she was a kid that she wouldn't eat anything except starches, meat and breads.

But one day I had a tub of cherry tomatoes on the counter and I had poured some blue cheese dressing into a little gravy boat as I got ready to made the dinner salad.  I was hungry so I grabbed a cherry tomato, dipped it in the dressing and ate it, saying something like 'Oh, that hits the spot.  It's so good'.  The child leaned over an started pounding away on the cherry tomatoes, dipping them in to the blue cheese dressing.  She ate the entire carton and ALL of the dressing I had put in the gravy boat.  The rest of her stay that was the only fruit or veggie I ever saw her eat (and you can believe I tried every tactic I could think of to scaffold her over to other foods).  So I kept the kitchen well stocked with cherry tomatoes and blue cheese dressing.

The only thing I -did- begin to do was to bake a lot more and 'hide' veggies in the baked goods (chocolate cupcakes with zucchini in them, chocolate brownies with kale or spinach or something - which were as horrible as they sound, oatmeal chocolate chip cookies with carrots in them, etc.).  To this day that child still won't eat fruits and veggies as far as I know.

OP, I don't know what to tell you except, good luck.  I think some people like veggies and salad, and some don't.[/quote]

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