I was recently asked how to instill good eating habits in your child at an early age. My advice...never get into the habit of making alternate meals for your children!!!!!! I cannot tell you how many times i have seen this practice from parents. They will say the child is "picky", but truth be told if the child had never had an alternative meal choice offered by the parent, they would have started eating exactly what was put in front of them. DO NOT DO THIS to yourself. From the moment you start to feed table food to your young toddler, let it be known that you eat what is on your plate, or nothing. Do not get into the habit of making mac and cheese and chicken nuggets. If you do, you can certainly add this sentence to your future, "I don't know what happened, all my child will eat is chicken nuggets and mac and cheese".