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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, this is not what you want to hear but here goes. Why are you allowing your 4 year old to have such a limited diet? Kids learn from their homes. Forget the gluten issue. Fill you home with a variety of good food, and keep presenting it. Your kids will eat more than chicken nuggets soon enough. Unless they have a rare disorder, your children will not starve themselves if you give them different foods on a consistent basis. It would also help if you and your DH ate differently, and served everyone one meal. Don't serve kid meals. Unless, god forbid, you are also eating chicken nuggets. You do realize that the nutritional value of food out of a package is not very high, right? [/quote]

OP here - people parent differently and I totally disagree with you.  My older one used to be like his little brother but little by little he has gotten more open minded and we are encouraging him without forcing him.  I believe my LO will too over time, so this is just a battle I choose not to fight at this age, esp. While on 'vacation' when other stressors are present.[/quote]

You realize the diet your child eats before he (or she) is 5 is the diet that will set them up for life.  Most likely - you will a child with life long eating disorders and probably obesity.  Be a parent - not a friend.[/quote]

What? I was the pickiest eater imaginable as a child and pretty much hated everything (and my parents were like a lot of the posters and wouldn't give in, so I learned creative ways of disposing of food). I was the child who'd rather get sick from hunger than eat what I did not want. Now I love everything, including plain brussel sprouts and turnips. I grew out of my pickiness naturally. Or look at it this way - how many organic-everything, healthy eating posters on these boards were fed the typical diet of lunchables and kool aid by their parents in the 1970s?

As to the original topic, this vacation sounds like a trip from hell. People may dispute all they want whether OP should have picky children, but she does at the moment and they won't drastically change in a few weeks. It's one thing to visit a very restricted house where you can go out to eat if it gets too onerous, but stuck in the middle of nowhere with cranky children and a bunch of in-laws? That's punishment, not a vacation.[/quote]

Oh look, an anecdote.  That must negate data.  [/quote]

LOL. Ok. Please share your "data" that shows that if you are a picky eater at four you are doomed to eating disorders and obesity.

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