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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Well, you know the issue; you stated it yourself. First, boxed mac and cheese has no place in any diet. Second, what is this Hershey kisses thing, and why is there any kind of chocolate involved in a dessert at dinner? It sounds like it is a t every dinner.

Now, I am not going to say it is easy nor that I am perfect, as my kids did not eat, but they have severe illnesses due to illnesses. I served what they ate a lot. 
Yet, I served pasta with butter, chicken that I breaded and cooked, and not some nuggets. Stews and beans and similar things were made bland for one with severe reflux and acid burning her throat since birth. And a side of pasta with butter/or nothing, if she wanted.

I don't know who this Ellyn Slater is, nor do I care. After you evaluate your kids with doctors and determine no health issues are causing this, you should start making all the food yourself. Do they want potatoes? You fry them or put them in the oven; They want chicken, you bread it and cook it.
It should work for your kids if it worked with my two FTT kids due to health issues. It worked as by age 14, they started eating everything, preferred homemade meals, and couldn't stand fast and frozen foods. Make homemade soups. The canned stuff is nasty. Make crepes or apple pie for dessert; at least there is milk, apples, or some other fruit. We used to get dessert once or twice a  month when I was growing up. Give them toast with butter or even lard, the farm-made one full of Vitamin D.

My grandma, my mom, my aunts, and all my cousins (we are in our 50s now) and I did this. We have severe gastro issues in our extended family, as in we puke everything we eat, reflux, kidney issues, and food allergies. We are cursed with the worst genetics regarding food allergies and gastric issues. Give it a try, it is not easy, it takes so much time, and you need to now how to cook, which you might already know, but veggies? Just steam them, keep at it like feeding your kids is an Olympic sport and you keep failing every day. I sure felt like a failure all the time with food. And then it paid off.
And never, ever, never, ever, I can't emphasize this too much, force your kids to eat, make a fuss all time about it. I did that too, and it failed every time. Once I took a deep breath and stopped all that, it started to work; they started to eat. Plain rice and mince, plain chicken and rice or pasta, that I cooked, then slowly, slowly more spices, more variety. 
Good luck, it is a marathon and the first thing is to stop worrying unless there is a health issue.[/quote]

This kind of made me laugh.  I am with you though.  I don’t think this applies to the OP, but most people I know IRL who complain that their kids are picky eaters are actually just terrible cooks.   I wouldn’t eat half of what they serve their families either.  
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