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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My oldest daughter can be a bit picky. We were recently visiting a sick relative, with lots of ILs. The sick relative thought Vietnamese sounded good.

I pulled my daughter aside and told her I'm going to feed you a granola bar now. When the food gets here, I'm going to put some on your plate. You can push it around and not eat much, but I do expect you to sit here politely, and I do expect you to try at least three bites of chicken and three bites of vegetables. If you do that, I'll get you some different food later.

I explained to her that this is one meal, and the important thing is that Great Aunt Sue is sick and not eating much; this food sounds good to her, so we're going to eat it and make this a pleasant meal.

My 6.5 year old handled it. Without fuss, without making it a big deal, without me fussing around the kitchen and finding something else. We ate a bit more at the hotel later.[/quote]

Why not just get some plain rice or see if you can get something really simple that she will eat?  Most Asian places are more flexible than American.[/quote]

We did. She hates rice.

End of the day, she ate a few bites, no one noticed, we ate later and didn’t inconvenience anyone. Because it wasn’t about us.[/quote]

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