Got a little one at home that will only eat mac and cheese or chicken nuggets with ketchup?  Been doing that battle for a long time, and you've tried everything you can think of?  Here are a few more tips about how to manage those meal time wars:

Try finger foods and keep things small so they can eat with their hands:

Use fun food shapes, colors and faces so that the food is interesting

Do food bars, like build-your-own taco, pizza, or stuffed potato

Hold the sauce - put sauce on the side or don't serve at all with little ones

Keep foods separate - avoid battles by not letting things touch each other.  Put them on separate serving dishes.   If you're little guy won't eat a sandwich for instance, put all the incrediants out but in separate piles or on different dishes. 

Unless your child is easily constipated, try cheese, cheese, and cheese

Be sneaky - add vegetables into soups, sauces and hidden in casseroles

Use fun props like chop sticks, fancy toothpicks and unbrellas, crazy straws, candlelight dinners, carpet picnics

Don't be afraid to let your child choose when he is hungry.  If he won't eat, he won't starve.  Remember, kids are better at recognizing hunger than adults are.   The key is not letting him choose what he gets to eat.  You don't have to fix three kinds of dinners each night. 

Avoid liquid calories in soda, juice and milk before mealtime.  Little tummies get full fast.

Close the kitchen and avoid providing snacks and candy before mealtime.

Make sure your kids are getting plenty of exercise and sunshine which build hunger. 

Avoid power struggles.  When you show frustration and impatience, you are inadvertently making meal times into an ugly place, something you don't want your child to associate with food.  Keep meals calm and peaceful as much as you can.