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Preschoolers Won't Eat Meals and Are Grumpy

So I've been doing, for months and months, healthy foods and meals. My kids 4 and 5 won't eat them. There is so much food going to waste, it upsets me. "They will eat when hungry" does not work. They go to bed hungry, whining about how hungry they are. And I remind them maybe they should have had dinner. They are always grumpy and having meltdowns. The few days that are atypical (party, etc) when they can get junk food, they eat. And they are not grumpy. My 4-year-old just clutched a box of pre-made PB&J, and I took it. That is a treat...