6yr old Stubborn eater

[4butalldifferent]

I’m curious.. well actually I have no idea what to do.. what’s people’s opinions... my 6 year old daughter is theee most picky/fussy eater ever! There is about 3 meals she will eat, and non of them include veg! Trust me I’ve tried.. That’s it she will point blank refuse anything else... so my question is, if you cook a meal for everybody (I have 3 other children who aren’t like this) and 1 child WILL NOT touch it what do u do? Do you make them something that you know they will eat? Do you have the view of ‘its that or nothing’? Now you give her ‘picky’ ‘picnic’ type food then she will eat it, I’m just worried she is already getting into some real bad eating habits but I don’t like the thought of her going to bed hungry?!? Some one help me plllease xx

My daughter is only one so we haven't hit that stage, but my brother and I were just like that as kids (I continued into my teens and him into his twenties, we both eat normal varied diets now.
My mum basically just let us do it. She asked us what we'd like to eat and let us have it. Family meals were self service not plates so we could pick the bits we'd eat. Other relatives and even the gp had a lot to say about nutritional deficiencies especially when I went veggie.
In fact, neither of us had any deficiencies. We are both healthy weight. He's a burly policeman now. I run marathons.
I remember being at my friend's house and watching her mum sit her at the table and not let her down until she ate something, possibly tuna. I felt physically sick thinking she was going to force me to eat it too, luckily she didn't.
If you can I'd not make a big deal of it. Give her multivitamins if you want. Ask her what she wants to eat and try to get her involved in cooking, shopping and planning meals (can obviously increase as she gets older). She won't starve my brother and I were pretty extreme but still managed to join family meals and eat out etc even if it was just chips.

My view is eat it or go hungry. Believe me, she will eat it if she's hungry. Don't let her start this, you need to put your foot down