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[quote=Anonymous]Your daughter has a VERY similar diet to what mine had at that age. Healthy, great variety, mostly vegetarian, but limited and hard to take to restaurants. She's 6 now and it impacts her more than when she was 4. Your DH is right that it IS frustrating when they won't eat any kid food, but for social reasons only. She can't go over friends' houses at meal times because she can't eat what's served, school lunches are a work in progress (though she gets the vegetarian menu and is doing well eating more of what's served), birthday parties, barbeques, etc. etc. So I'd say work on it, but don't make it a battle. One thing we did was start talking about how her selectivity would impact her (being hungry during school, not able to visit her friend, getting stomach aches if she lets her body get too hungry), and that really made a difference. It worked because we never forced it, but would keep offering and talking positively and encouraging "try bites." She'll now tell me she'll eat something "even though she didn't really like it" because she knew she needed to. That's great and means she'll continue expanding the variety. And if she never eats a real hamburger or steak in her life, who cares. She'll live longer for it and the world is very accommodating to vegetarians now. [/quote]

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