Not eating lunch

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Stop serving snack and only serve a drink - 4 oz of milk. Then it encourages the child to satisfy their real hunger with real food at lunch. For sure a child can survive just fine on eating mid morning and afternoon snacks and doesn't need lunch. Bet if you served veggies instead of crackers you would very quickly see how much child was not really hungry at snacktime. They do however need a drink of something mid morning. Also serve milk at morning snack and water with lunch so child doesn't have anything to fill up on besides the food. Then if they continue to not eat or only eat the starch portion of the meal so what not your problem. They will come around in time. This is a very common trait for this age group because they can control how much they eat and learn very quickly that it gets them attention from adults.