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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No. They've always eaten what we make/give them. Never had any food issues. I don't expect them to sample one of everything over holidays. They eat, and stop once they're full. [/quote]

My question is whether you're choosing what they eat at the holidays, or you're making an exception and allowing them to choose.

I'm asking because I have a family member who believes this -- that kids should eat what's put in front of them, which I understand in her home, but she's not an adventurous cook, so he kids are used to food being familiar.   As we plan Christmas dinner, she keeps objecting to foods because she thinks her kids won't like it and she feels like it's mean to expect them to have to eat food they don't like at Christmas.

I'm trying to find a middle ground between unhappy kids, and the rest of us not having to eat foods that are "little kid friendly".[/quote]
Yeah, in this situation your relative is just wrong. I'm sorry. It's extreme and misguided to insist at a meal with a large variety that a kid try every single dish. I'm an adult, and I don't do that! And it's flat out rude to tell the host not to prepare dishes she wants to prepare.

I think it's reasonable to ask that the main spread include things kids will eat (and if that means not putting peas in the pulao or boiling some plain rice, that's a reasonable ask). But insisting an entire holiday spread be only things one family's kids will eat is truly bizarre. I think this is the first time I've heard of that, to be honest. And I've seen all kinds of parenting approaches to food.[/quote]

It’s extreme to think that a holiday meal should be centered around one or two family members’ tastes, period, whether adult or child!  [/quote]

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