Our toddler always ate best when I let her help me make it or at least saw it being put together so they could recognize what was going into the combined dish. A dish can probably look overwhelming to a small child but if we broke it down as we were making it (putting in carrot, good for your eyes so you will be able to see far, far away etc etc) then they seemed to respond well to almost anything!

Pizza can be a good thing to make with little hands - we have a colour guide in our family of having to make a rainbow of different colour options basically, we kind of make it a competition of who can use the most colours even lol. So on her pizza she might pick capsicum (yellow, red, green or all three), sun-dried tomatoes, olives, pineapple or on a different day it might be roast pumpkin, capsicum and spinach leaves. She loves being able to pick combinations and sprinkle them on and although pizza isn't a great food, you can sneak some good servings of vegies in on them really. We usually do this once a week or fortnight and have a picnic dinner which is also popular - eating somewhere different! Communal plates are good. Raw vegies have always been popular so I keep a lunchbox of celery, baby corn, capsicum, cucumber, carrot and some cheese in the bottom of the fridge that is a free for all during the day and usually all gets eaten so even if the rest of the day is a bit of a bust I don't feel too bad. We do the 'give it a try at least, if you don't like it you don't have to eat it but you have to at least try before you know right?'. Offer the same things over and over, can take them a while to work up to trying new things but exposing them multiple times helps. We started growing vegies too which seems to encourage their consumption. Always has to sit with us at the table even if not eating, usually they start picking at it. Getting some off mum or dads plate.

I think the main thing is just getting them involved in the process.