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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At what age did you start making LO eat what was served?  We have family dinner every night and my 3yo basically gets what we get, but i am not sure what to do about the 1 yo who is already more fussy.  He basicslly eats fruit, cheese, and turkey.  Ive been giving that to him after he refuses our dinner (i try to get him to taste), but am wondering when i should stop that.[/quote]

Oh, I would stop that right away. I think there are 2 things you can do: you can give your 1 yr old a different food from the beginning of the meal, or you can give him the same dinner you're getting ( I prefer the latter, when reasonable). But making it a situation of him knowing he can refuse and get something else is, in my opinion, not great for anyone in the family, esp. if you have an older child who observes this phenomenon. I'd deal with this by putting a little fruit on his tray-- and at the table for the rest of you-- at every meal. You could also do bread, as a PP and Satter suggest, or a few crackers and cheese.

Although Satter doesn't like it, if you have a picky eater from the get-go who refuses to even try new foods, I like using the one-taste rule that another dietician, Eileen Behan, suggests: your child should try a little taste of everything on his plate, but he's not forced to swallow it. He is allowed to spit it out if he doesn't like it. You can decide if this is appropriate for your family meal or not, but since it does often take many, many tastes for even a non-picky kid to appreciate a new food, I found this worked well for making sure my child wasn't rejecting things merely because they looked different or unfamiliar.[/quote]

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