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[quote=Anonymous]You don’t need to cook different food for them, you need to figure out why they aren’t hungry at dinner time. A common culprit is too much snacks or milk/juice.

I’m Asian and I grew up here. We basically only had Chinese food to eat at dinners and we all loved it, except for the youngest child who was raised with unlimited snacking and became extremely picky. The extra salt and sugar in snacks makes regular food taste bland and makes you crave the kinds of foods you mentioned.

My kids are 3 and 7 and eat everything. All Asian foods — they love when we make Korean or Vietnamese food — all vegetables, different sauces including curry, foods not considered kids foods like fish and liver. We limit snacks and just have fruit between meals most days. Dinner time is a fun time where we talk about our day. When they were littler and just starting solids, we always start with vegetables, then meat, then a grain to get them used to all kinds of vegetables and meats. We didn’t accommodate pickiness by making different meals.[/quote]

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