Thanks. I am grateful for the reassurance. Normally we only get her one night a week, so habits like this are hard to teach. I think bio-mom allows picky eating and rude behavior like fake throwing up. And yes, she will be having it for breakfast tomorrow. And if not then, I will take it with us for when we meet our friends for lunch after church. If not then, I'm not sure how to handle explaining to bio-mom that she hasn't eaten for a whole day... Bio-mom is not the most reasonable person I have ever met. And yeah, she will probably think that the pizza is gross. And if so, we won't make it again when she is over. But one slice won't kill her, and at least she will have tried it.

My deal is that she does this with every new thing that is put in front of her. Strawberries? Never had them they are gross. Etc. Etc. She likes pizza, and chicken, and refused to try it. I am cool with the try it and don't like it. I am not cool with refusing to try it. That is what is for dinner, and I shouldn't have to take the time to buy/cook something else because she is being snotty. Trust me she was being snotty about it. We even told her about how it was her Dad's favorite pizza. Well I don't care I don't like it was the response. She doesn't know what it tastes like so how can she know she doesn't like it. I'm okay with her not wanting buffalo chicken ever again after she tries it. Which she did this morning. She ate half of it thinking she would have to eat the whole thing and then I said okay, would you like something else? And then she got normal breakfast. She is picky because her mom allows her to be picky, not because the food is actually gross. I've been at BM's when they serve a meal, and if she says she doesn't want to try something, they make her something else, every time. She never tries something new.

Yeah we do the whole if we think its yucky we aren't going to make you eat it thing too. We actually told her, we won't make anything if we don't think that she will like it. She has had things with similar ingredients that she likes. I am totally okay with fixing her something else if she is willing to try new things and goes okay this is too sour, spicy, etc. If it is something like oh I don't like the onions then okay, pick them off and eat the rest. But when it is I know I don't like it even though I have never had it, that just doesn't work with me. Case in point we made chicken broccoli pot pies one night and she threw a fit because she likes the chicken ones, not these. A completely different night, I put one in front of her and called it a chicken pot pie, and she ate it and said it was really good. Then I said oh by the way I forgot to mention it was chicken and broccoli. Oh I don't like that. But you just said it tasted really good. So... when she goes oh I don't like it because it has green stuff on it, its just not cool. No offense intended to anyone, but things like eating with your eyes is taught. I have had some of the ugliest foods that are the most tasty, because I was raised to try new things and then decide if I liked it. After years of that, the behavior stuck. Therefore, after she reluctantly got 1/2 way through her very small piece of pizza, I offered something else, because she had tried it. Normally one bite would be fine, if she wasn't the type that if she thinks she doesn't like it, she won't. So it takes a few bites to overcome that mental block that says this is gross. Then, if she still doesn't like it okay, would you like something else. To sum up, I am trying to teach her, have an open mind, try it once, and then we can move on. And... this would be so much easier if we had more than 3 meals a week with her.