I also started to include my picker eater in preping meals...even if it is just a taste as I am making it. They all want to see and taste and explore. If you can get her to just taste a few times she will realise it is yummy. One of my picky eater did not even try the food and went down from lunch whitout even a bite. It was so frustrating, but now he still does not eat much but he does TRY and will eat now things that he refused before. That's almost after 6 months of determination on my part ;0) But like the others I do not offer alternatives.