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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, I have always cooked and made what I made before kids. 8 year old will begrudgingly eat most things. 6 year old is a battle Royale every single night unless we are having pizza or something like that. I'm extremely sick of it but I'm not giving in. He's currently sitting at the table with two more bites of broccoli to go.[/quote]

Wow, did you post this from 1982? [/quote]

If left to his own devices he'd live off cookies and granola bars. The pediatrician says get vegetables into them by any means necessary. And he's eaten broccoli happily in the past so it's not like this is something he hates (I don't make them eat food they truly dislike.) He's just hoping I'll give in and break out the carbs.
Also agree with the PP that American kids food is ridiculous. We just got back from Japan where we went to a lot of family restaurants and every kids menu consisted of  Maguro bowl, curry rice and kitsune udon. My kids lived off curry and their same age Japanese cousins ordered off the adult menu because they think that food is boring![/quote]

I am confused.  So, in Japan, there are kids menus which are mostly carby foods, with some fried ingredients, and limited palate, and some kids live off the menu there, and some get bored and eat other stuff, and it's evidence that Americans are ridiculous when they do the same thing?  [/quote]

The only thing fried there is one of the tofus in the kitsune. The point is there are strong flavors, this is not a limited palate. Compare to chicken nuggets, macaroni, hamburger and fries. No strong flavor and no vegetables to be seen. If OPs kids find lentil soup to be too strongly flavored then their palates need to be pushed a little. Again I know this isn't the current fashion in parenting.[/quote]

Your kid's diet consists of junk food that no American parent on here has said their kids eat for meals, and food you power struggle with him about. You took him to Japan and he ate the same food over and over again, a very mild "kid" dish that's mostly white carbs.  But you are so superior to American parents that you must judge.

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