Parenting

My trick with a 1-3 yr old so far is to just put an array of new stuff on his plate, tell him what everything is, and DO NOT tell him to eat any of it. When he sees me eating the same stuff then he eats it. If there is something he REALLY likes or is familiar with I save that back.

Of course he'll sometimes not want to eat certain things, but if you put 3 new things on the plate he'll try at least one of them unless you've trained him to only eat crap. I encourage him to try everything even if it means that the cup of cinnamon applesauce he wont get to have until he tries one bite of everything etc.

But otherwise telling a toddler to eat something is the surest way to prevent them from trying it I've found.