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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Those girls are crappy eaters. Bad mom parenting skills. If they are hungry, they will eat healthy food.[/quote]

Clearly you don't have picky kids.  Mine would go days or weeks without eating even if we gave them what they liked.[/quote]

We ate healthy/regular food when the babies were in the oven. Lots of food from different continents and made sure it was spicy. When they popped out, continued the veggie/fruit healthy baby food. When they were toddlers we served them everything; broccoli, asparagus, chile, sardines, hamburgers, thai chicken, pizza, sweet potatoes, salmon, omelets, lentil soup, blah blah blah. They still eat most everything. It takes a little effort to plan, but worth it for their health. They didn't have a choice to be picky eaters. Wasn't going to happen on my watch.[/quote]

I did all this, and my 5 yo now refuses to eat anything that isn't white or light brown or a blueberry. Seriously. All kids go through a phase where their disgust reaction to food is activated (it's probably an evolutionary holdover that helped humans avoid accidentally poisoning themselves as they became old enough to start feeding themselves), but some kids get it much stronger than others. You can believe that you controlled this with your choices, but you probably didn't.

Also, both my DH and I were very picky eaters as children and now we both eat very healthy, varied diets. This is something we tell our picky eater, too -- you might not want to try these things now, but you will probably change your mind as you get older and see that your pickiness limits you. But the point is that they've found picky eating to have a genetic component and this seems quite plausible based on our family. But since DH and I now eat lots of different foods, including lots of vegetables and foods with different spice profiles, I'm guessing my kid will grow out of it, too. But right now, she eats a lot of peanut butter sandwiches. It's really okay.[/quote]

I fed my kid all kinds of fruits and veggies, only healthy, never sweets when little but all of the sudden got pucky and they’d go days without eating if we forced things.  Eventually as tweens they got curious and now will try most things.  Not worth a power struggle as long as they eat.  [/quote]

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