Originally posted by Mskanga
I agree with you on that Jasmine, but sometimes kids say they are not hungry and then half an hour later they come out and say, I want some ice cream, I'm hungry.
That's when I take out the dinner plate and I say, this is what you can eat, if you eat at least half of it ( believe me I know how much my kids can eat ) and you are still hungry , then you can have some ice cream.
That usually makes them sit down and eat, if they turn around and go back to their room, that tells me they are not that hungry.
They were also the "try everything once" people. As long as I took a reasonable taste, if I didn't like it after that, I didn't have to eat it any more. For a while, we did have battles with lettuse and liver. It wasn't until I got sick three times in a row on liver that my mom realized the reason I didn't like liver is it made me sick. 
From then on, if she was making liver, I had another option of some sort. She never did believe me about iceburg lettuse, not until I was about 17 and we discovered my grandma has the same problem. She and I can eat *leaf* lettuse, but not *head* lettuse. Now my mom is careful to have only Romaine or Leaf lettuse if I'm eating with them and it involves lettuse.
