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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do you sit down and eat as a family? That helps my picky eater a great deal. I will make a meal I know he will eat - generally pasta - and add broccoli or peas or another vegetable on the side. He won't eat it right away but seeing the rest of the family eat it he usually gives a try.

It's a lot easier to give in to pickiness and short order chef and have your kids eat totally different food but this doesn't help. My sister does this for her kids and after we go on vacations together where we do it too, it takes weeks to get my kids eating veggies again.  [/quote]

I’m sorry but what you describe with your kid is not picky eating. Not the way both my kids are or OPs kid probably is. My kids will never, not once, deign to try a food on their plate that the rest of the family is eating happily, even if that food is on their plate three times a week for 5 years.

OP to answer your question, I serve meals family style and make sure there is something (plain rice, plain pasta, certain raw veggies, etc in my case) so that if we are eating burrito bowls, one will have rice and bell pepper and the other will have tortilla chips and bell pepper. Then they usually make themselves a PB sandwich later. I can’t bring myself to care anymore at this point. They won’t even eat pizza. One of them, age 8, has never even tried it, despite it being offered at every birthday party , every play date at dinner time, and seeing all his friends exclaim “Yes!!!!! A pizza party!!!!!!” when it’s pizza night. He licked a slice once when I basically forced him to at age 5 but that was it. [/quote]

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