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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Op here - we started easy tonight. We were already planning on making pizza so I offered pizza and strawberries with milk. Older kid ate everything. Younger kid at two bites of strawberries. She hasn’t eaten since 10am so I thought she might be hungry. Nope nothing. Then went outside to play for 1.5 hours came inside and got ready for bed. I am sure she will be hungry in the morning but at this point it’s a battle of wills. She will hold out for a while I am sure. I am assuming the next week or two will be milk and water with an occasional bite of fruit. Fingers crossed she starts eating real food because I am certainly not making chicken nuggets for dinner. [/quote]

Don't starve your kid!!!  Did you read the Ellyn Satter book or just do this based on what people posted?  Read the book.[/quote]

I don't get this. Ellyn Satter says it's the parent's job to provide the when and what of food and the kid's job to eat.  That's exactly what OP is doing, not "starving" her child.

[i]The division of responsibility in feeding (sDOR) encourages you to take leadership with the what, when, and where of feeding and let your child determine how much and whether to eat of what you provide. [/i][/quote]

Exactly.

generally speaking my kid will eat whatever is for dinner sometimes she doesn't like it I'll let her have an extra serving of carrots and hummus but mostly I try not to micromanage her food choices.

I think one thing parents get into a pattern about is that a kid will say "I hate x" And then x becomes off limits. I've tried to help my daughter understand that sometimes she just gets tired of eating something or she's not in the mood to eat something but that doesn't mean she will never eat that thing again. She really loves bean and cheese burritos and then went through a phase where she hated refried beans and I pointed out her that maybe she just needed a break from eating them all the time and then she could go back to enjoying refried beans. 
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