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[quote=Anonymous]Hey OP, first of all, giving you a hug. This is hard.

I was a very picky eater and have two kids in early teens who are now recovering picky eaters. So, I have different perspectives on this.

Things that worked for us (but were hard to implement): 
- step away from the battle, the power struggle. Either they eat, or they don't.  Your kid is not an infant anymore, so he will not die. I know it feels overwhelming to send them to school or to bed hungry, or they would be super disruptive if hungry, but, maybe just do it... Some of this is in YOUR head at this point. Just walk away from it. Maybe get counseling yourself. Dont get me wrong, I am not saying you have the problem. Not at all. But years of battling picky eating as a parent does things to you. So try to reframe your own mind. This shift, once I achieved it, helped everyone in the family immensely. We all dug out of the trenches.

Another thing that helped was change. I noticed travel helped, being out of routine (the trenches idea again). Or going over to other people's houses. They would try things that they would never eat at home. Or coming back home from vacation was sometimes a reset. Can you create or seize these opportunities? Or change the placement of the table. Or meal set up. I know it may sound simplistic, but sometimes this is all it took.

Good luck to you!

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