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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’ll be honest — I cook separate meals for them about half of the times I cook.  I mean, I am not going to force my kids to eat scallops or seared rate tuna if they don’t want to.[/quote]

Ha! Literally last night we had a fight over who would get the last scallops. Kids won. They're delicious! Why wouldn't kids want to eat them.
It would be cheaper to feed them hotdogs, though.

I take pride in having converted three of my kids' "picky" friends who would only eat white foods into vegetable eaters.

The trick was to offer vegetables first, when they're really hungry, which was right after school when I picked them up three days a week. That's all that was available between school and the park I'd take them to for an hour to burn energy. Sometimes they'd stay for dinner, and their parents were shocked that they'd try the cooking. Random stuff, like Jamaican goat stew and okra. The kids learned fast that I wasn't going to be offering them anything else like their parents did at home.

So, OP, you might consider starting some of the new foods at snack time. Also, for one picky eater I cared for, helping to cook really made a huge difference in willingness to try new things.[/quote]

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