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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not what you want to hear, OP... but we limited kid food between 0-3 so they would develop a taste for other things.  No snacks except fruit and only water between meals. Start meals with vegetables, then protein, then grain. A lot of variety and little pasta, bread, etc. They were hungry so they ate everything. We also took them to a lot of ethnic restaurants early on — Mexican, Indian, Thai, middle eastern, Korean, etc. — and made a big deal about how delicious the food was. They learned to love trying new things and will eat everything we eat. I feel like it is harder when they get older because it becomes a control issue and also a psychological familiarity one. Anxiety develops between ages 3-8 so kids at those ages often don’t want to try new things. YMMV.[/quote]

I did all that and it worked great until about age 4-5, and then they started rejecting all those foods one by one!  A lot of it is the taste buds you are born with, and some kids are just more sensitive to textures or different tastes.  We’ve been gradually working things back into the diet.  I do think most kids have a jump forward after puberty.  It’s pretty well established that taste buds do change after puberty.[/quote]

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