Forget the Kid's Menu

The only way we are going to really affect the long-term food preferences of our children is to abandon the idea of the KIDS MENU and begin offering them real food.  Early exposure to a wide variety of fruits, vegetables and complicated flavor structures broadens their taste horizons, while automatically succumbing to the all-beige, fried Kids Meal on a regular basis will simply create a picky eater.  David Kamp put it very well in his recent NYTimes article.  Read it here.