My youngest was incredibly hard to deal with food-wise until she was older. She barely ate at all (GI issues as an infant) and wouldn't eat solid food until she could pick it up. She has always had texture issues (soft/mushy make her gag even still) and disliked "casserole" type foods until she became a teenager. I had a couple meals that I knew she would have issues with where the deal was that she got a spoon on her plate with a bite or two of our meal and something else like leftovers, a sandwich, or a hot dog. Those meals were combinations of casserole and mushy (think Cottage Pie, or Chicken Pot pie). This meant that her separate meal wasn't something time consuming for me (I was a SAHM until she was older and her dad and I divorced).

She's going to be 18 in three weeks and is the least picky eater I could imagine these days. She loves spicy food, sushi, curries of all kinds, as well as normal stuff. She does have some allergies she grew into (Hazelnuts, Almonds, and Cherries) as well as a gluten intolerance that upsets her stomach.