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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Stop trying to feed kids weird shi7.  Give them cheese pizza, chicken nuggets, hot dogs, turkey & cheese (sandwiches or served separately with crackers, pancakes with whipped cream or maple syrup, …..  My kids aren’t even picky, but they wouldn’t eat yogurt on pancakes. [/quote]

Op meals sounds like what we eat in our house. People who separate food into "kids food" and "adult food" are bizarre. No wonder there are so many picky eaters![/quote]

This is a myth that smug parents of adventurous eaters like to tell themselves. I have 2 kids. My first would eat anything. My 2nd was extremely picky. It was not because we served him "kid food." In fact, he would eat only one variety of chicken nugget and no other, would not eat pasta in any form (so no mac and cheese), would not eat peanut butter, would not eat pizza. Etc etc. At home, we had foods he would eat, but if he wasn't served those foods prepared in the way we made them, he just wouldn't eat. And before someone says, "he'll eat when he gets hungry," let me add that he was 75th percentile for height and 3rd percentile for weight as a toddler/preschooler. So. (FWIW, we could also never get him to take a bottle as a baby, and he was extremely slow to take to solids.)

He's now 18 and still a picky eater. Still doesn't like pasta in any form. It's the mushy texture apparently.

So, when he went on playdates years ago, I always tried to schedule them when they didn't overlap a meal. Or I would feed him before he went and tell the hosts that he had already eaten. My best friend who hosted him sometimes knew what she was in for, lol, and she actually kept his brand of nuggets in her freezer even though she didn't often serve mistress to her own kids.[/quote]

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