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[quote=Anonymous]I had a picky eater until age 4 (3 options for dinner, 2 veggies, 1 fruit) and still has issues at age 7 but in no way limited.  What I did is make their favorite foods from scratch (no spaghetti o's- buy similar looking pasta and add sauce.. in our case fish sticks, I made them from scratch but to look like the frozen ones)- made it look like DC's usual meal but it was from scratch.  I gradually changed things to a different form, same taste (such as pasta- DC could only eat kraft mac and cheese- I switched to rigatoni with a home made cheese sauce).  I started tying dessert to dinner (doing well- not having to eat everything- and I started increasing the amounts so that most everything was a good size- got larger plates to make it look like not as much.. DC is slender).  We only give sweets for dessert so it's a huge deal.  I then started switching snack to fruits only- strawberries with vanilla sugar- whatever- but snacks are now only fruit- and they may get salty items like crackers if they eat their fruit (my other DC is not picky but is learning to imitate DC1).  I made a lamb ragu tonight which showed pieces of finely chopped carrots.  I use dried onions chopped when it's too obvious since this throws DC off.. anyway, I had chopped celery and carrots.  DC ate all the pasta and left lamb ragu- I try to make dinner engaging- conversation (what is the largest mammal?) and may use a book- such as today was a riddles book (we are moving away from this but this helped).  So- I would not turn the page until every child took a bite- gradually DC ate everything except for two spoonfuls of the controversial sauce.  DC eats veal scallopine, beef stew, shrimp, asparagus, cucumbers, cantaloupe, watermelon etc.. We all eat the same meal.  I miss some of the spicy items (such as ancho chile shrimp fajitas) but we're ok.  Tomorrow night is meatloaf burgers and broccoli, next night shrimp pad thai..  I really hope this helps- I was at my wits end since DH and I both love any food and are somewhat foodies, DC2 will eat brie, shrimp with cocktail sauce (and say "yummy!) but DC1 is the picky one.  [/quote]

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