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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The pediatrician told me not to cook the kids a separate dinner so I don’t. A food psychologist talk that I went to also gave similar advice.

Sometimes I serve meals deconstructed where everyone can add what they want. Tonight I served a make your own taco bar and everyone picked their own toppings etc. [/quote]

Yup. Anecdotal, but I spent evenings w/ grandma who did this (and served a lot of our family's traditional cultural food), grew up to be an extremely adventurous eater. Middle sister was in the middle and is middle of the road eating wise.

Youngest got babied by parents and got her own separate dinner; at age 25 she basically only eats PB&J, burgers, steak, fries, chicken nuggets, butter pasta, and cesar salad.

My preschooler has eaten what we've eaten since we started introducing solids. Sometimes it takes a few tries for little kids to get used to a new food, and I feel like so many parents give up the first time a kid spits something out. We keep it fun and low stakes and after a couple tries over the span of a few meals she's usually on board. [/quote]

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