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Damn, lady - the kid eats enough stuff, he is not 'disordered'. Do you really have to write a huge book about it?
You're into food , he's not. Just make him comfortable when he's with you and stop overanslyzing EVERYTHING under the sun.
If you don't want to feel like a short order cook teach him to make some simple meals himself to enjoy at the same time you are eating some complicated creation.

Pop tarts and Lunchables is not 'ignorant'. And frankly a 13 year old boy is not a baby so I assume he's there for some of the grocery shopping and he picks these things. [/quote]

He really doesn't eat what most kids eat, PP.   I'm not the OP but my kid is a lot like hers.  It's pretty frustrating to plan meals and to see thousands of foods that most kids eat that your kid won't.   It's sad and doesn't feel good as a parent.

Here's what her kid won't eat:

for breakfast - let's say the meal is scrambled eggs, bacon, fruit salad, yogurt, OJ, and toast.   Her kid might eat the toast.

for brunch:  Pancakes, sausage, breakfast casserole, orange and kiwi slices,  OJ, plain milk.  Her kid would eat the pancakes.

For lunch:   Turkey and ham and cheese deli sandwiches,minestrone soup, potato salad, deviled eggs, cole slaw, hummus and crudites like carrot sticks, celery and peppers:  her kid would eat nothing.

for dinner:   antipasta platter (sliced meats, cheeses and some veggies), chicken parmesan, spaghetti, broccoli, simple side salad of lettuce and cucumbers with dressing:  Her kid would eat the spaghetti and sauce, if you kept it from the chicken parm and it was just plain tomato sauce.
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16:55 here, a PP with a picky eater.

Out of those meals, my almost-13-year-old would eat:

breakfast: bacon, some of the fruit in the fruit salad, toast, OJ if it is pulp-free. No yogurt (unless it's in a smoothie).

brunch: pancakes and sausage, kiwi, pulp-free OJ. No breakfast casserole, no orange, no milk.

lunch: my DS won't eat sandwiches. If the ham could be pulled out of the sandwich (and didn't have any mustard/mayo/etc. on it), he'd pull apart the sandwich and eat the ham, and he'd eat the carrot sticks. That's pretty much it. He will eat bread, but usually not if it's been attached to a sandwich, because he won't eat mustard/mayo/butter, and he won't eat bread that's been dampened with juice from a tomato slice. No soup, potato salad, deviled eggs, cole slaw, hummus, celery, or peppers.

Dinner: he'd eat whatever was pepperoni/salami-like on the antipasto platter and he'd eat the broccoli as long as it didn't have butter or sauce on it and the cukes as long as they weren't dressed. No cheese or marinated vegies. Chicken parm--surely you jest. He doesn't eat pasta, even plain. Doesn't eat tomato sauce. Doesn't eat lettuce.

Yep, it's frustrating. But I've lived with this kid for almost 13 years. I can keep banging my head against the wall and feeling sad about what he is missing, or I can accept that this is the kid I have and just make the best of it. And try to find other ways to bond. My kid does like dessert and likes baking cookies and making ice cream, so we enjoy those things together.[/quote]

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