> The stories of people who can be offered 10 desserts, turn them all down,
> and insist on going out for something different, amuse and horrify me.
> THAT'S fussy.


I agree. I think that's fussy. Sometimes I think my 10 year old daughter's
getting fussy. But then when her friends come over I realise she isn't bad
at all. Some of her friends only have a few things they will eat and I have
a terrible time trying to find something for them. I'm convinced it's
because they're given too many choices, and then if they don't eat it
straight away, an hour later they're hungry and given chips and junk. I
think some kids think if they don't totally *love* the food, they can eat
the junk instead. So many friends of my daughters just eat junk. I tell my
daughter, that she doesn't have to *love* everything I cook, but she has to
taste it, and eat it if she can. She can have a healthy replacement if she
really hates it, but no snacks later on. They have to learn from their
mistakes, a healthy meal now, is better than going hungry till breakfast
time. One of her friends hardly seems to eat anything, but then we had her
over for tea and had Mcdonalds. I couldn't believe how much junk she could
eat. And her mother lets her! She's only 9, she had a cheeseburger, a
quarter pounder, 2 large fries, a large coke, and an ice-cream sundae. My
daughter usually only has 3 nuggets (6 if she's really hungry), small fries,
small drink, a sundae if she's really hungry.

I'm a big believer in it's not how much they eat, but what they eat. Just
picking at bits of healthy balanced meal is much better than eating nothing
but junk.

Jen