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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No. They've always eaten what we make/give them. Never had any food issues. I don't expect them to sample one of everything over holidays. They eat, and stop once they're full. [/quote]

My question is whether you're choosing what they eat at the holidays, or you're making an exception and allowing them to choose.

I'm asking because I have a family member who believes this -- that kids should eat what's put in front of them, which I understand in her home, but she's not an adventurous cook, so he kids are used to food being familiar.   As we plan Christmas dinner, she keeps objecting to foods because she thinks her kids won't like it and she feels like it's mean to expect them to have to eat food they don't like at Christmas.

I'm trying to find a middle ground between unhappy kids, and the rest of us not having to eat foods that are "little kid friendly".[/quote]

At a huge meal, you're not going to be able to please everybody, so you have 2 or 3 dishes that you know the kids will eat, and go to town with everything else. [b]I don't understand why you couldn't come up with this simple solution on your own.[/b][/quote]

[not OP]

I don't understand how you can still think this is a simple solution to the actual problem that OP faces. Did you just skip reading the thread?[/quote]

What a b1tch you are. I was not expecting the OP to be thread sitting and replying to every single post with new information (the most annoying kind of OP, btw),  so I replied after page 2, but now that I've been through the whole thing, I still think this is the solution and OP's sister needs to deal with it.[/quote]

NP here. Nope, you were the b1tch, PP. I’ve bolded where you started the b1tchery as a helpful way of pointing out your behavior so you can do better in the future.[/quote]

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