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[quote=Anonymous]OP I have a picky kid and she eats pretty much what you describe, even though I also make healthy "real" meals nightly. She will eat what I cook maybe once in two weeks and even then it's not really the same -- she'll eat the pasta I prepare but skip the sauce, skip the salad and only eat one or two things from it, then bread. Honestly so much of her dinnertime nutrition comes from the glass of whole milk she eats with dinner, and then the fruit I always make available. She often has trader Joe's frozen items or yogurt or cheese and crackers to supplement because the are easy to add to a meal I'm already making when it's clear she won't eat most of it.

That said, these are the somewhat easy meals I make that she will eat at least some of and that sound good to me:

- Soup and sandwiches. I do soup from scratch and then make grilled cheese. She will eat the grilled cheese and *might* dip the sandwich corner in the soup. But soup rehears great and I can do this again as leftovers or have the soup for my lunch so no food waste. Everyone else likes this.

- Make your own taco salad. Same idea as bowls but it's foods she likes more. She'll have avocado, beans, tortilla chips, cheese. She won't mix them, she'll separate them on the plate. But that's an okay meal and the rest of us load up on everything else.

-Loaded ramen bowls. She just does the noodles and broth, sometimes will have seaweed with it. The rest of us do eggs, chicken, various veggies, hot sauce. I can add nut butter to her broth and she likes the flavor and it adds some nutrients.

And then the aforementioned pasta, tho I've been doing pasta less because it's harder to incorporate a protein for her with this if she won't eat whatever sauce I'm doing.

I try to let it go. It's so hard. But I like cooking and eating and this at least gets us around the same table eating sort of the same food. It means she sees the rest of the family eating real, balanced meals most nights. Lots of nights I'm still supplementing with yogurt, cheese, PBJ for her if she won't eat much from the table. But it feels like family dinner.[/quote]

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