Eating Solid Foods & Weaning: Gerry

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Kids Won't Eat; Getting Deficiencies

My kids won't eat food. They will happily eat cupcakes and ice cream all day, or anything that's junk. And they only want to eat on the living room floor, which is getting dirty. I got fed up. So I've been making wholesome meals that have to be eaten at the table, figuring they'd eat if hungry enough. And I cut out the other junk. Nope. All it meant is at the last Dr's appt. there were some nutritional deficiencies, iron and more. And I imagine they are deficient in things not tested, too. This wholesome meal thing is not recent,...