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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Especially for holidays?

I have a relative whose parenting around food is very different from my own.  I'm not saying either of us is right or wrong, but I'm hoping to get a better sense of what they're thinking so I can propose some compromises.[/quote]

If I introduce a new dish/food, they had to takea bite and it could be nothing more than a dot.  If they likef it then I let them serve themselves but they had to eat what they put on their plate and they learned to take small amounts but they could have seconds.  I never make them eat anything they don't like.  I told them that when I was little that I hated cooked carrots and wouldn't eat carrot cake because it had cooked carrots but one time I was invited to a friend's house for her birthday dinner and they served carrot cake.  I asked for a tiny slice because I just knew I would gag on the cooked carrots.  Imagine my delightful surprise when I took that tiny first bite of carrot cake!  They love the story and "remember the carrot cake" and will try everything.  I also never withheld desert.  I have three, two grown and one is 20 and a junior in college and I never had a picky eater.

I just never made a big deal about food.

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So this is a bit of a long shot but is there any chance that one kid is grossed out by the sight of complicated foods? I have a child with ARFID who would literally throw up at the sight of a vegetable curry (although after years of therapy things are a bit better now). Even still we don’t expect big groups to accommodate this, but make a plan to have DC sit a little turned or we just go for appetizers. We are pretty open about things but I know not everyone with food issues is. Otherwise this is just crazy to me. [/quote]

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