On Thu, 04 Nov 2010 19:54:30 -0700, Ranée at Arabian Knits
> wrote:

> How odd. Our children almost all love salads. The littlest ones
>have a harder time with them, but we usually give them a tiny bit to
>pick through and they do alright. I think it's more of that training
>children to eat children only food and defining that as junk.

I honestly can't say how kids operate. You're more experienced than
me by three.

Both of my kids needed to be told to try new things. I had the three
bite rule... they took three bites, not nibbles, and swallowed - then
they could quit eating if they still didn't like it. DD used to look
at anything new and tell me "Whatever that is, I don't like it". It
was very difficult to do the follow through with her. My son (the
oldest) was easier, not easy... easier. He told me after he was a
father himself that he hated it because after the third bite more
often than not *I* was right, but he pretended not to like it to save
face... which explained why he didn't protest the next time that item
was served.

His son, however, was influenced by someone who took every new food
item away as soon as he made a face. So, aversion to anything new was
reinforced. It was very hard to overcome and he's still learning to
give new foods a try before rejecting them. On the plus side... he's
also the kid who loved sushi before he was two. So there's always
hope.

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I love cooking with wine.
Sometimes I even put it in the food.