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Hello Kraft Community, we are very excited to share some great news with you. As loyal Kraft Community members we have heard your desire to do more fun things in the community and we are happy to announce in January 2010 we will be making some changes so you can connect and share food ideas in more ways than ever!
We want to let you know we will not be transferring the existing discussions to the new enhanced message boards so if there are discussions that you would like to save please make sure to either print them or copy and paste into a document that you can save to your personal files.
We will remind you again before the transition occurs but wanted to let you in on the exciting news!!
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Re: Tips for Picky Eaters
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Oct 28, 2009 9:28 AM
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I agree wit hthe cook bok idea. I have a few cookbooks that my son has gone through to decide what he would want to try.
We also have a "no thank you bite" rule in our house.
The kids all have to try one no thank you bite of what ever it is that they don't want. They can't be excused from the table until they've had their bite. Of course I always try to make at least two things I know they will eat or lke.
Since we instituted this rule a few years ago, my oldest son has learned to like potatoes (except for mashed potatoes) and has also learned to like other things as well.
My daughter has learned to like carrots, and burritos.
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Re: Tips for Picky Eaters
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Feb 26, 2009 8:51 AM
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> I've had to resort to a lot of reverse psychology
> with my 4year old. He'll ask what I'm cooking and
> I'll tell him that it's just for me and daddy because
> he won't like it or it's too spicy or something like
> that. It works like magic. He immediately wants to at
> least try it. Another idea is to get your kids a "kid
> cookbook" and let them pick a meal out. They can help
> you cook...it actually works. the kiddos are a bit
> messy...but they eat dinner!
My mother used that psychology on us kids all the time. Mark Twain had it right in "Tom Sawyer." 
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Re: Tips for Picky Eaters
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Feb 26, 2009 8:47 AM
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I've had to resort to a lot of reverse psychology with my 4year old. He'll ask what I'm cooking and I'll tell him that it's just for me and daddy because he won't like it or it's too spicy or something like that. It works like magic. He immediately wants to at least try it. Another idea is to get your kids a "kid cookbook" and let them pick a meal out. They can help you cook...it actually works. the kiddos are a bit messy...but they eat dinner!
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Re: Tips for Picky Eaters
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Feb 10, 2009 8:52 PM
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iscera you are not alone! I think all of us have had stages like this with our kids. How old is yours? She likes chicken, does she like pasta? You could do a tamely spiced dish with those two. (Like a linguine.)
You could also try not spicing much at all and letting people add it in on their own, then she might eat it and everyone else can make it to taste.
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Re: Tips for Picky Eaters
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Feb 10, 2009 10:07 AM
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I know what you mean, iscera! I have one child that's extremely picky, and the other has sensory issues so food texture is a big problem. I just continue to offer choices, thnking the more they're exposed to something maybe they'll grow to like it, or at least tolerate it. They have to eat at least one bite of everything the rest of us are eating. If they don't like it or it makes them gag, they're allowed to get a peanut butter sandwich. When that's the ONLY othe choice, sometimes they'll opt for something on their plate. It's VERY frustrating, I know! I've been dealing with this for years. The doctor says as long as I can get some fruit into them and cereal, we're probably ok. But my mom sense wants to do better than that! Keep at it!
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Re: Tips for Picky Eaters
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Feb 9, 2009 4:10 PM
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I looked at the choosy eaters menu... and it won't work for my choosy eater.. I am tired of looking at her while she chokes down the latest version of dinner. She would perfer to eat Mac n' Cheese or cereal every day! I hate that she eats only because I am forcing her to do so! If I feed her the noxious meal she'll eat it faster but she has to wash down every bite!! I need some good ideas! I feel like I'm making the same things over and over and the rest of us are suffering! I have started having her help me cook so that it's her dinner she's eating and that has helped some. Most of the recipes I think she's going to like.. she does not! Her favorite meat is chicken. She doesn't like complicated flavors or soft/mushy textures (DOES THAT LEAVE ANYTHING TO EAT???!!!). Any help would be greatly appreciated!
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Re: Tips for Picky Eaters
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Jun 23, 2008 4:45 AM
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> I did something like that for a New Year's Eve party
> one year. Cornish hens for each guest, served with
> baby carrots, new potatoes, and brussel sprouts (I
> always thought they looked like baby cabbages). It
> was a big hit and a lot of fun to prepare.
Whenever we cook Cornish hens I always think of the old swashbuckling movies from the 30s and 40s with the likes of Errol Flynn, Burt Lancaster and Tyrone Powers. They would sit around the great banquet tables eating gigantic hunks of greasy meat with their fingers, wipe their mouths with their hands and invariably grab the lovely young ward/princess/etc who set beside them with those same greasy fingers.
There is just seems to be something primeval about eating a whole bird, no matter how small.
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Re: Tips for Picky Eaters
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Jun 18, 2008 6:22 PM
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Thats a great idea, and its healthy.
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Re: Tips for Picky Eaters
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Jun 13, 2008 9:27 AM
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I did something like that for a New Year's Eve party one year. Cornish hens for each guest, served with baby carrots, new potatoes, and brussel sprouts (I always thought they looked like baby cabbages). It was a big hit and a lot of fun to prepare.
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Re: Tips for Picky Eaters
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Jun 13, 2008 7:59 AM
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What a fun idea!! It reminds me of a dinner we had as a kid that I absolutely adored. We went to a friends house for dinner (there was a large group of us from various families) and when we got there- they had partitioned off the kitchen w/sheets, and set up the dining room like a restaurant w/menus and all. The catch?! The menus had crazy outrageous names for all the items (I can't remember them all, but I think it was like Eyeball Stew, etc..) So, you had no idea what you were really ordering. But all the kids loved it- and none of us 'refused' to eat what we ordered even if it ended up being broccoli! It was a few courses (apps, salad, entree, dessert) so I remember you ate at least some of it because it was so much fun- and then just tried to choose 'better' for the next course.
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Re: Tips for Picky Eaters
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Jun 13, 2008 5:45 AM
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I love the idea of themed dinners, although with just two of us at home now, our usual theme is something on the table.
I read a book once about the history of cooking during the 20th century, and there was a period when colored themed dinners were all the rage -- red meal, white meal, green meal, etc.
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Re: Tips for Picky Eaters
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Jun 12, 2008 5:29 PM
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THat sounds Great TMKx7! My dinners seem very medium after reading THAT! My son is grwon now, but one thing I think would have been nice to try if he had been picky is bathtub dinners. THe novelty would be so great that the food would be gone quickly AND time would be saved (dishes, bathtime). Just as long as the food wasn't too greasy I think he would still stay clean. Like soft tacos instead of hard becasue the hard would probably get wet and end up soft anyways.
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Re: Tips for Picky Eaters
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Jun 11, 2008 3:22 PM
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i love that idea! themed dinners...esp. the 'teeny tiny' one sound so creative and inspiring. i think we'll give it a try too!!
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Re: Tips for Picky Eaters
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Apr 4, 2008 12:56 AM
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Thanks for the suggestions! My two aren't too picky, but this sounds like alot of fun! Family night fun. I'm going to give it a try for that reason!
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Apr 1, 2008 8:02 PM
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When my kids were little, I found a way to make trying new foods fun and introducing a way to make foods that were good for them fun to eat. We would have "Teeny Tiny Dinner Night". We would eat from saucers, use pickle forks (they are small), doll napkins and eat at the children's play table. Our first menu included cocktail franks, baby carrots in ginger glaze, the tiniest florets of broccoli and petit fours. The kids had a great time and had no idea they were eating healthy. The meals became more elaborate as I became more creative in making foods "tiny". Then, we had "Giant Dinner Night" where I made one giant hamburger (baked like a meat loaf) Whole carrots, and a cake decorated like a giant cupcake. Over time, we tried chinese food night, french foods night, ect. It became such fun for all of us. But the biggest compliment came years later when my daughter used "Tenny Tiny Dinner Night" for her 4 year old picky eater. Good luck to you all and I hope this helps
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