Picky Eater......

I must say I find it frustrating feeding H. If its not plain and simple or one ingredient that she can see that she is not familiar with, might as well throw out out the window ..... I growing up and am sure many my age would agree, you ate what was put in front of you or you left the table hungry. However I feel that I am solely responsible for H's eating habits. When I divorced it seemed easier to let H eat what she wanted. Plus it didn't seem like cooking for 2 was ever really an option because most things she ate I didn't and vise versa and it wasn't worth the fight or struggle to put my foot down on eating or going without. And now it bites me in the butt. So this morning I woke up thinking I'll get up and cook her breakfast, she loves it so much, specifically sausage. So I cooked her some sausage and then made a sausage cream cheese casserole with crescent rolls. I just knew I couldn't go strong with this. All the things this childs loves for breakfast, sausage and rolls/biscuits. Well NO ! Couldn't be that easy, stupid cream cheese messed it up for her. She took one tiny bite and said she didn't like. Defeated again a against this child's taste buds :( so I told her she could finish her piece of sausage but then she would have to go upstairs and go without unless she decided she wanted to eat this casserole. Now as I sit downstairs I feel awful. I feel like I've sent my kid upstairs and she is starving to death ( although I know this is not the case) but its eating at me. It seems cruel and unfair, so again I'm sure I'll cave in about 10 minutes and fix her something else to eat..... Cooking and feeding a picky child is frustrating and exhausting.