my kids eat nothing!!

[Rochel4]

I have 4 dc, 1 of whom is a baby and eats everything but no doubt she'll turn out like the rest. Every night i prepare nice meals only to be met with looks of disgust,total refusals or one bite and thats it. i am totally tempted to serve them plain bread for dinner since they eat nothing anyway! my oldest ds needs everything to be white aswell. i am going nuts! anyone else have similar dilemma??

[colditz]

What do you do after they have refused their dinner? Do you give them nothing but water until breakfast the next day?

[kreecherlivesupstairs]

Unfortunately my dd seems to exist on fresh air. I force her to eat a breakfast of some description - currently the favourite is Shreddies. She takes a packed lunch to school and more often than not the sandwich and fruit come back. She then declines what I've made for our dinner so goes to bed hungry. I have only recently introduced this 'rule' but I was fed up with making two seperate dinner.

[FernieB]

Don't give in to them. Mine used to be very fussy, but then they started school here in Germany and have school dinners here (where there is no choice at all - they all get the same) and now are less picky. They still have bad days though. I try to give them at least 1 thing on their plates that I know they'll eat. They know that there is nothing else if they don't eat dinner.

It can be annoying trying to accommodate them though. I have one who likes plain food, and would love a roast with plenty of veg every night. The other prefers spicier things. I try to alternate days.

How old are they? Would they eat it if they cooked it?