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Daniel Tiger - "You gotta try new food cuz it might taste good!!". Usually that gets her to at least try it.

We sing some song from yo gabba gabba, "try it! You might like it!"

A lot of the time he wants what I'm eating. So if I sit down and take a bite of something he usually wants it. Other times if I just put the food on his plate and not call attention to it he'll usually try it.

Sometimes if we pretend DH will eat it, then that will make LO grab up a bite. Or telling him he can spit it out if he doesn't like it. I generally don't stress about it though, and just make sure it's visible on his plate. He might taste it the 3rd or 6th time he sees it.

Same as @wonderstruck: I will ask her in the beginning to try one bite for me. If that didn't work I will say I will give her more of what she did like if she tried one bite. Over time if she didn't like it and spit it out I didn't make a big deal. So now she's gotten pretty good about trying everything at least once. Which I think is really important to not be a picky eater!
I'm don't know if we got lucky or did something right but she's a really good water considering all the weird stuff we eat. Or maybe that's why because she was exposed to all my ethnic foods at a young age.

We do just what @wonderstruck: 's mom did and some of what @hilsy85: said. We put whatever we are eating on his plate, but the first few times its offered we don't push him eating it (if he says no the first couple times we serve green beans, we let it pass). After 2 or 3 opportunities to try it on his own, then we serve small portions of whatever he likes and only offer 2nds if he tries the new food. Sometimes he refuses and we just end dinner there; most of the time he'll eat one small bite, say "Yum!" and immediately ask for whatever food he was trying to get seconds of. Eventually, we had to institute a "thirds" rule where his second portion is also small and so he must eat all the food on his plate before he gets a third helping. We also do sprinkled cheese on top of things he only kind of likes.

@bpcmarj: Daniel Tiger FTW. Got her to have a piece of lettuce this week! She usually picks out the green leafy bits.

Nothing works for us so far! I just keep offering new foods and hope she gets adventurous. Sometimes if we are eating them, she's keen to try.

Nothing and I mean nothing works for us. I told her broccoli was little trees and she put it on her lips, and then threw it down. Every veggie has been coated in cheese, ranch, ketchup, told her to dip them in it, etc. We have tried bribing her, you eat once piece you get a cookie, one bite and you get an M&M. I eat veggies every night with her and it still doesn't get her to try it.

Our pedi said that closer to 3, in her experience, is when you can start bargaining with them on dinner.

She'll usually eat something off her plate and then ask for more - so like others, we'll tell her she has to have a bit of X before she can have more Y. That usually works, and 50% of the time she likes it and eats more than we asked her to. Dips work too!