Shmiras Haloshon: There are some kids who will only eat certain foods. My cousin pretty much only eats soup with those Osem botnim and cereal with milk. (I know they’re both foods with spoons and liquids and bowls and floating objects – but I think it’s more complicated than simply turning his salads into bloated gardens and dinner plates into free style swimming chicken and potatoes).
All of his older and younger siblings eat everything, and he’s refused to eat much else since he was a kid. I think he feels sick afterwards. He’s willing to go hungry if forced to eat something else. I’m not his mom and I know his mom has done a lot. But I don’t think he’s the only kid with a monopoly appetite. The trick, I think and I’m no expert, is to work with what the kid already likes and is willing to eat and go from there.