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I will always remeber Dr. Phill talking about this issue. You eat as a family. Give proper portions for their age and they have to eat what you are eating (no giving different foods for each meal). You have 20-30 to finish the meal. If they do not finish the meal, you put the remainder in the refrigerator. Then for the next meal time (if it was dinner, then at breakfast. If it was lunch, then snack time. Etc.), you give them back what the did not eat and that is their meal until they finish it. Yep, give it to them cold. They had their chance at a warm homecooked meal once. Of course, they will not want to eat cold dinner for breakfast, so they probably won't eat it. That is fine, it is their choice. DO.NOT. give them anything else to eat until they finish their dinner. Offer it for a snack, or if they complain that they are hungry, offer their dinner to eat. Eventually, they will get hungry enough to finish. It will take A LOT of patience and will power for you to not give in. They will be cranky, throw fits, etc. Just keep telling them, that they had the choice to eat their dinner last night. Because of THEIR choice, they are now getting it for a meal until they finish it.

I did this with my girls and it worked. It probably took 3 different times times of fighting and fits and letting them know that I would win. They would eat their dinner. It was just up to them when they would eat it.

Now granted, we all have 1 or 2 foods that we can not stand. Give grace for that, but otherwise, stick to your guns. You can do it!!!