Gifted Issues Discussion homepage Forums General Discussion What do you do about extreme food pickiness?

... and furthermore, you've never seen a kid with food allergy as a drill instructor, Cawdor.

They are medical DQ's. Automatic, just like asthmatics and diabetics.

Let me be the first to add, however, that much of what the general population claims as "allergy" is anything but, and a lot of those are nothing more than food preferences with over-entitlement disease.

I also agree with the idea of providing a variety of healthy food choices-- as a regular thing-- and then not worrying too much about 'how much' beyond that. I don't make family meals revolve around pickiness, but nobody is forced to clean their plate or even "try" everything, either.