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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DO NOT make separate food for your kids.  Ever.  Eventually they will eat more and more.  I had to put salmon on my son's plate probably 30 times before he would even try a bite.  He just ate the side dishes or whatever else was being served that he liked.  [/quote]

This.

I never served my kids separate food. We also ate out a lot on weekends...Indian, dim sum, Lebanese, etc.  They were used to eating a variety of foods from the get-go.

I never served chicken fingers/Mac & cheese when they were toddlers. [/quote]

This!! I have three kids. One super adventurous eater, one more picky and one in the middle. The picky eater is just more stubborn - she will refuse to eat something just because, even if she has had it before and likes it. I do not battle over food at all. I make one dinner, they can eat what they want from the options available. We eat out a lot and always have, so they are used to trying different types of food. 2 of my 3 like spicy food (ironically the most adventurous eater doesn’t like spicy food, but neither do I).

I do accommodate reasonable preferences. All 3 hate sautéed spinach because of the slimy texture, so I don’t cook it for them, l make some other veggie they will eat instead. One doesn’t like cheese sauce except Mac and cheese, so I keep sauce on the side for his portion. Small things that to me are different from making a separate meal. I hate olives so I would never mix them into a salad, and my DH hates walnuts so same deal. [/quote]

I'm an adult who hates sautéed spinach too!  It's totally fair to accommodate preferences like that, if they have given a food a shot a few times.  Have you tried other forms of cooked spinach though?  My kids will eat chicken Florentine pasta and we can work spinach into ravioli and lasagna too.  But sautéed spinach gets a flat no.[/quote]

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