Have not been on here for years, but am going into meltdown about my sons fussy eating and really need some KEEP CALM advice before I explode! DS has always been fussy when it comes to meals but I have just got on with it, never got stressed and hoped that he would grow out of it. He eats relatively healthy food (although would eat cake and chocolate all day if allowed) but I can count on two hands what I can give him in a meal, he is seven now and, possibly I am wrong, really should be eating far more varied foods. Last year I managed to introduce banana's and cashew nuts but they were the only new foods he tried. So New Year I thought that's it what is on the table you will eat, I am not putting anything exotic in front of him (shephards pie, casserole etc) but he point blank refuses to even try it, it is horrible (for both of us) and ridiculously stressful. I feel like I am being really mean but also feel that by allowing him to be so fussy with his diet that I am being a bad parent. My work has also recently changed and he is now going to clubs so I have less time to cook the meals he likes and really need food that I can pre prepare and then heat in the microwave otherwise I end up not eating as I dont have time to prepare two meals all the time. Am I going over the top, does the hardline approach work eventually, should I just put up with things the way they are. I just want him to enjoy his food (cant believe he doesn't, both me and his dad love food) I have always tried to include him in making/buying food, I am on my own with him (he is equally as fussy when with his Dad) maybe I would feel a bit more confident about being hardline if I had someone here backing me up...... or maybe what I am doing is just the wrong way of doing it????? Any advice..... please?