There are people here who seem to believe pickiness in kids is somehow down to the parents. It's not.
My kids are 20 months apart. Both were fed the same way. If anything, my oldest was given more separate meals than the younger one. He is a great eater though, with only two long term (since babyhood) dislikes: bananas and lamb. My daughter, on the other hand, is little miss picky. She was served the same food as her brother from the time she started eating real food. She was much slower to add foods to her diet and still eats much less variety than her brother. She was and is fine to skip a meal if the only other option is something she truly dislikes. I make a point of making sure there are at least a few things on the table she will eat each meal, even if it is just some bread and a vegetable. She's a very active child and if she doesn't eat we all suffer as she won't sleep.
She has gotten better with time but she barely ate meals at WDW on our last trip. I bought a loaf of bread and picked up peanut butter and strawberry jam with breakfast each day and pb&j (only strawberry!) and buffets were pretty much all she ate. She objected to the mac and cheese despite loving the homemade version, found the chicken nuggets "really, really yucky" and doesn't do tomato sauce making pizza and pasta options inedible for her. Add in a dislike for burgers and an odd issue with grilled food (the lines make it look dirty) and most kid meals just did not work for her. Funnily enough, she did amazingly well at Disneyland Paris. The menus there, with things I've repeatedly heard American and British kids won't eat, suited her much better.
My kids are 20 months apart. Both were fed the same way. If anything, my oldest was given more separate meals than the younger one. He is a great eater though, with only two long term (since babyhood) dislikes: bananas and lamb. My daughter, on the other hand, is little miss picky. She was served the same food as her brother from the time she started eating real food. She was much slower to add foods to her diet and still eats much less variety than her brother. She was and is fine to skip a meal if the only other option is something she truly dislikes. I make a point of making sure there are at least a few things on the table she will eat each meal, even if it is just some bread and a vegetable. She's a very active child and if she doesn't eat we all suffer as she won't sleep.
She has gotten better with time but she barely ate meals at WDW on our last trip. I bought a loaf of bread and picked up peanut butter and strawberry jam with breakfast each day and pb&j (only strawberry!) and buffets were pretty much all she ate. She objected to the mac and cheese despite loving the homemade version, found the chicken nuggets "really, really yucky" and doesn't do tomato sauce making pizza and pasta options inedible for her. Add in a dislike for burgers and an odd issue with grilled food (the lines make it look dirty) and most kid meals just did not work for her. Funnily enough, she did amazingly well at Disneyland Paris. The menus there, with things I've repeatedly heard American and British kids won't eat, suited her much better.