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[quote=Anonymous]Bringing up Bebe had some interesting observations about why French kids eat real food--there is a whole chapter about how the kids are fed real foods even in daycare and--like the PP suggested, veggies first.

Our kids have always eaten the same food, once they were reasonably good chewers, so by 3ish. Same as a PP, the main time they get something different is if our food is very spicy or something rubbery like squid or something, that might be difficult to eat. One kid is lactose intolerant so she gets a pass on cheese.

We always have two vegetables at a meal, so I do let the kids, if they don't like one of the veggies, to have double helpings of the other. They MUST eat a vegetable at every meal. if it is lunch that is often just cut up cucumbers, celery sticks or carrots.

You have to keep insisting they try the food. I ask them to have one bite even if they think they won't like it. I had a kid who went through a "plain pasta" phase but now loves all kinds of pasta sauce including ones with anchovies and olives. So tastes evolve, they just need to keep being exposed. I just offer over and over--they just have to take one bite, to try it, and I find that a lot of prejudices fall away. It's often not about the taste, it's something else, or just wanting to be willful and say no. [/quote]

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