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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I spend hours each week planning, shopping, cooking, and preparing 90% of our family’s meals and my six year old is driving me up the wall. He refuses, unless coerced (“three bites of all new foods” “clean plate club or no screens after dinner” etc), to try any new foods. We spent years playing it cool, putting it on his plate and telling him he didn’t have to try it if he didn’t want to, etc and it did absolutely nothing. Everything he tastes he says he doesn’t like, and 50% of the time he gags when he is coerced into trying it. He will not try basic things—even sweet things, like cake or toast with jam or a different flavor of muffin! Foods he does like are rejected if they are cut in a different shape. He will not eat ANY convenience foods—yogurt, pizza, mac n cheese, quesadillas, chicken nuggets, nothing. I am just so frustrated by the unwillingness to TRY and the immediate rejection of everything after tasting it, without even thinking of whether or not it could potentially taste good. 
I’m not very sure if I’m looking for advice, I just need to rant. Most resources for picky eating are for toddlers, and playing little games or cutting things into fun shapes is not going to convince a six year old.[/quote]

No big advice, just hugs and sympathy.  We are an ethnic family with spicy and saucy cooking habits.  We have three kids.  The oldest and youngest will eat anything you put in front of them.  The middle one is PICKY.  Nothing with sauce, no tomato sauce, NO BEANS of any kind, only plain unseasoned unsauced food. No burgers.  It's beyond inconvenient.  I've learned to just roll with it, picking the least unhealthy option she will eat.   So it may be grilled chicken, plain rice and boiled broccoli or green beans, and I tell myself that if she eats a little bit of each of that on her plate, it's going to be fine.  [/quote]

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