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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t understand this problem. Kids eat when they’re hungry. If they’re not, it’s because you’ve taught them you’ll throw away leftovers and make or buy something new. If you want to stop throwing away food, eat the food and stop throwing it away. This isn’t rocket science. [/quote]

So what do you do with the leftovers on their plate? Put it in the fridge? Tell them they HAVE to finish it?[/quote]

NP, I serve family style.  My kids take a small portion, or none if they don’t like the food.  If they do like it they take another portion.

I don’t keep what’s been on their plate, but because they only put a little bit at a time, and they only put things they want to eat, it’s not much.[/quote]

This.  But I will say, my third child is picky.  She often doesn’t want what I’ve made.  Though I do try to have at least one component I know she will like. I have zero problem with her eating fruit and cheese for dinner or a scramble egg every single night if she wanted.  It just isn’t a big deal.[/quote]

I cook dinner and put in on table.  This is dinner and I am not going to scramble an egg so eat or go without.  Picky eating is fostered by indulgent parents.[/quote]

Yes and no. I have one kid who had an extremely limited palate even as a baby ... would not touch solid food until a year and even then refused to try almost everything. At 11 he's finally become a reasonable eater but it's only recently that he has started trying everything. He still often doesn't like many foods, to the point of gagging -- although that has decreased a lot. He's working on it and in retrospect we probably should have done some kind of feeding therapy when he was younger, but oh well. Whereas my other kids have always been much more open to trying food and in their case, any pickiness is for sure because of indulgence rather than natural tendencies.

In any event like others, we also make only a family meal, although I make sure that most of the time it contains at least one thing that the kids don't completely hate. For example, if I'm making cauliflower curry, which I know they dislike, I'll serve rice or another grain I know they will eat, or I'll have some extra vegetables or fruit or nuts on the table as part of the meal. We also rarely cook anything that doesn't do well as leftovers. I send leftovers as the kids' lunches or eat them myself as my work lunch. If I am making something that doesn't do well as leftovers, like scrambled eggs or fish, I pay attention to portion sizes so we don't have waste.

I also draw up the menu on Sundays and post it on the fridge so everyone knows what we're having. The kids are welcome to make suggestions although I rarely take them as to the food - I may take them as to the preparation. If it were up to them we'd eat steak and pasta every night. But if I am making chicken or fish, and they request it grilled instead of baked, I try to accommodate that if I can.[/quote]

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