The only time Katie doesn’t want to eat fruit, vegetables, you know, healthy food, is when she has the option to gorge herself on some sweet sugary goodness full of empty calories. 

I do try to balance her selection as much as I can, but that’s not so easy because OMG she is into making everything a choice…  These grapes or those bananas, this sandwich or that soup...  I have to have an alternative for it all… (Even her Disney Princess Gummy Vitamins--she's gotta choose: Cinderella or Snow White?!)

I already know what’s she’s gonna pick, but I have to humor her, or well, she’ll dig her stubborn heals in like a husband being asked to buy Tampax. 

I am making some progress, though: Let's say Grandma offers her potato chips or apple chips, she’ll usually pick the one that is not completely crap--usually…  But if the potato chips come with a gizmo or they’re in a pretty pink package or they have a crazy cartoon character on the front—the healthy apple chips go directly out the proverbial window.  Take it from me, I know what the kiddo’s gonna pick; I even conducted my own study to figure it out.  Called it, “No sh*!, Sherlock.”  ;)