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[quote=Anonymous]I agree you're totally fine -- it sounds like your kids eat really nutritious food and you sit together as a family at a good time. All good things.

BUT it sounds miserable to prepare, sit for and clean up two dinners. My kids are the same age and I agree they don't like when the dinner is all combined (like when it's a mixed up rice bowl or curry or something), so I sometimes adapt. Like tonight we're going to have chicken caesar wraps, but that's too messy for them to eat all wrapped together, so for theirs i'll do a little pile of chicken, a little pile of "salad" aka tomatoes, plus a tortilla on the side. I also love spicy, so I keep it out of recipes and DH and I add it later (though I am starting to urge my kids to try spicy foods by this age to begin to get a taste for them).

If you don't mind, you do you, but you could also work on trying to have your kids eat what you and DH make. They have probably learned to expect their own separate, early "kid dinner," so you just have to break that habit. You may be surprised what they'd eat. My kid won't eat french fries one day but will gobble up thai cod curry, and the next day it's totally different. [/quote]

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