Where did my vegetarian go?

[Mamacita]

My oldest has been the greatest eater..minus the fact he doesn't care for meat. Now he is a carb junkie and I can not get him to eat veggies. I am so crushed over this. He still eats fruit but all the foods he used to love sweet potatoes, spinach, green beans, peas etc, trees (brocolli). etc he says is yuckie.

He will still eat carrots and chickpeas but I am concerned about his range of foods. I made him a rainbow chart so we can work on eating all the colors of the rainbow everyday. He tried to convince me that Macaroni and Cheese worked for the color orange!

Anybody deal with a picky eater?

[lolabear]

some days lol most of the time she is good but some days when i put something on the table i know she likes she will fight and say she doesnt like it but we make her try it, then most of the time she will eat it. she is a lot pickier now tho than when she was younger, she would eat anything and not question it, now she does have some preference but if she likes one thing we're having and wants more of it i make her eat some of the other stuff too so she gets a little meat and veggies

[Psyche]

DS won't touch ANY veggies and barely any fruit. He'll eat chicken and pork and carbs. Sometimes he'll eat steak.

[sweetkisses]

I usually put a small amount of everything on her plate at dinner (beans/meat, vegi, bread) She would eat only bread if we let her. So when she asks for more I tell her to take 2 more bites of carrots and then you can have more bread. I don't know if this is the best approach but it seems to have worked for us. She will say, "okay, mommy. like this." Then she'll eat some more carrots and then I will give her more bread.

If we were met with a lot of Resistance I don't know how much I would actually force it. I would be afraid to completely turn her off of veggies and other good wholesome foods.