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[quote=Anonymous]I'm with the PP who offers veggies as an appetizer.  I didn't do it on purpose, I just started offering them as I was prepping dinner because my kid was hungry and that was what I was chopping but it works amazingly well for us.  My 3yo will stand around the kitchen snacking on raw green beans that she will refuse to touch when served cooked with butter on a plate.  Mysteries.  Also, a tried and tested family trick is to offer frozen peas still frozen.  Every child in my family (me, my sisters, my kids) will willingly and enthusiastically eat a bowl of frozen peas while also spitting out cooked ones.

I also somewhat unintentionally limit the amount of certain foods a meals -- my child cannot eat too many pancakes because I only made one batch of pancakes and we have finished it.  Since she ate three, I'm not concerned she's going hungry or anything.  Once I let her eat as many ribs as she wanted (I was so shocked she willingly ate something with meat in it honestly) and she threw up later so I think it's reasonable to put a (large, like adult-sized portion) limit on one individual food.

I will also say, I serve her very, very small helpings of things I doubt she'll like (e.g. pork chops in your example) so neither of us feel too much pressure about them.

Another thing I will do is track what food groups have been missed in meals and try to make up for them with snacks.  E.g., if she only ate bread for lunch, I'll offer apples and peanut butter (those are two certain-to-be-eaten foods for us) for a snack so she's getting fruit and protein.  She's more likely to be adventurous if she's been eating well; once she gets into a cycle of hangry No-I-Hate-It it's harder to try new things.[/quote]

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