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[quote=Anonymous]Keep some "healthy" muffins in the house (by which I mean good fats, whole grains, and sweetened with raisins or apple sauce instead of lots of sugar)--NYTimes has a recipe for morning glory muffins, I think Giada has a zucchini and carrot muffin, and just add fruit, coconut (or coconut oil), walnuts and sub in whole wheat flour and play around with it.  If your kid will eat scrambled eggs, make that often.

Also, you asked for a smoothie recipe, so here is my current go to (recipe per person): 1 (big) spoonful whole fat greek yogurt, 1 (big) spoonful of almond butter, some chia seeds and wheat germ (maybe 1 small spoonful of each?), 1 date (if you like some sweetness), 1 cup-ish (or more if you like) frozen cherries, about 1/8 of one of those frozen bricks of spinach, some vanilla and/or almond extract, a little water to make it blend.  Lots of good fats, and my kid loves it (and I do too).

Try to think of your kid's food intake over the week, not per meal.  Some meals, my kid eats buttered toast and nothing else.  sigh.  sometimes he eats more chicken than an adult.  Then he'll be really into buttered green beans and rice, but nothing else.  But over the course of a week, I think it evens out.

Try to make sure at each meal there is at least something your kid will like--sometimes my kid will decide he's only eating rice, and then forget and try the other things.  And we always have dessert after dinner (which often is fruit, or cheese--but sometimes is ice cream because duh).  Don't make him a second meal (though if we are having a leftovers meal, I let him have whatever he wants of the leftovers), and don't fight him on what he's eating.

And good luck!  I think you said your kid is two, so this is still pretty normal.  For the record, I don't think picky eating is the parents' fault, but I do think we can make sure our kids are exposed to new flavors, and learn how to be polite about encountering food they don't like (with time...and lots of patience, and swiffer wipes hahaha)
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