There are deeper issues sometimes with picky eaters. I know because I am one. I have been since I was a baby (or so I've been told by my parents). I wasn't being manipulative or any thing and I didn't grow out of it either. Obviously not every picky water has an eating disorder but I think it would be wise to keep the possibility in mind. Up until maybe a month ago, I couldn't eat onions without putting them through a blender so that I couldn't feel the texture of bitting into a piece of onion. And even now, I dice them up really small and add less than the recipe calls for because I could taste the onion too much. I don't like certain foods touching each other. When I was younger I would gag while being forced to eat casseroles or scalloped potatoes. To this day I cannot eat anything with mushrooms. I actually loose my appetite if I think I'm going to eat any thing with mushrooms in it. I can't even eat meat off a bone because in the past I've chewed off accidentally cartilage or something non-meat. I'm much better now than I was when I was younger, I used to also only eat bread, pickles and uncooked carrots at holiday meals. I've tried a lot of things but the list if things I do eat is much easier to list than the stuff I don't like or get very nervous about trying. So it's not always a choice of not trying something, sometimes it's a lot more than just that.