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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"kid's food" = processed food that is leading to the obesity epidemic.  Feed your child real foods just like you eat, and the child will like them just like you do.  If you want them to look more fun, make them look more fun naturally (put fruit on sticks, shape eggs into bunnies, place carrot sticks into teepees with peas hiding inside....).  There is absolutely nothing wrong with feeding your children real food, and it is a shame that our society makes new parents think that there is.[/quote]

For me, and I'm a PP who does use mostly fresh and/or minimally processed foods, I think sometimes it feels wasteful.  I don't let it stop me, but I do sigh and understand why some parents just cave to the convenience of processed crap.  Yes, I know it can take 10 to 20 tries for my child to try a new food and that sounds fine.  Except that then becomes 10 or 20 pieces of fish, or lentil soup or whatever that is thrown away untouched or with one little bite out of it.  With my two year old I use plates with multiple sections so that every meal I know she's getting at least one or two things that she likes in addition to anything new or unfamiliar.

Last night she ate almost 3 pieces of chicken, skin removed.  She loves hummus, but it went untouched since I'd spread it on fresh cucumber rather than with fresh carrots.  She did eat half of a banana and some grapes.  The freshly picked zucchini that I'd diced and tossed with mint and a vinaigrette also was avoided completely.  [b]My sense is that for many parents it just becomes easier to serve the mac and cheese or chicken fingers since you know the kids will eat them[/b].  [/quote]

But what is it about these foods that kids just start eating them without rejecting them?  I would think a two year old would look at a brown object (nugget) on their plate just as suspiciously as a green cucumber.  [/quote]

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