Dinner Time Battles - how do you deal with them?

[Muffy]

I do the same as everyone else, the kids eat what i eat everynight. unless its something very spicy.
I figure kids will NOT starve themselves and will eat how much they feel like eating some nights it may be the whole plate but other nights it may be only 2 or 3 bites!

[Indadhanu]

Oh yeah, I second what SammyRo said. When you think about 'daily intakes' for toddlers, and very young children, they average it out over a week. So they say over the course of a week, does your child eat so many servings of vegetables, fruit, protein etc. Because somenights they will just not eat, and other nights they'll eat two or three times what their 'daily' intake is KWIM. It takes a nbit of the stress out if you think like that, because there isn't that thought that you have to make them eat a certain amount each and every night.