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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I appreciate this thread. My husband made a delicious stew on Monday night, which he and I have been enjoying all week. But my kids won't eat stew, so they have eaten: greek yogurt, peas (at least one or two actual peas, I saw the peas go into their mouths, the rest were left on plates), PB&J, cheerios, strawberries, French fries, bagel with cream cheese, rice and beans.

I am currently trying to plan tonights dinner and come up with a dish that they will actually eat. It's so hard. I might do tacos, which they will eat if we crumble the shells and call it nachos but use the same ingredients. Sigh.[/quote]

Who wants to eat the same thing for dinner 3 nights in a row though??

I try not to make meals I know my kids will absolutely refuse.  However if they really don't like something, it's up to them to figure it out.  For my one kid that usually means cheese and crackers and the other one will really eat whatever we eat.[/quote]

I mean, they wouldn't eat it on the first night either. The reason we ate it three nights in a row is because they refused it the two nights we had scheduled to eat it, so we had too much and DH and I finished it off on the third night.

Our kids are ultra picky. We used to try and accommodate this by making meals they were unlikely to refuse, but that turned out to be a fools errand (I'd put effort into making something I thought they'd like, and then they'd refuse to eat it, and I'd be extra frustrated because I'd put extra effort into making it palatable). So now we make a broad variety of foods, they are always welcome to eat it, and if they don't want it, the rules is: one protein + one veg (or fruit) + one grain. We'll help them figure out how to put it together but we don't cook them separate meals, which is why they wind up eating a weird variety of items on nights where they won't touch the actual dinner.[/quote]

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