Can you imagine if you had never put anything unhealthy into your body? No fried foods, candy, caffeine, soft drinks, alcohol, drugs, red dye #40, processed foods, chemicals, hormones or any of that other known bad stuff? Not to mention if you had never intentionally baked your body in the sun, smoked cigarettes or placed yourself in a cloud of aerosol hair spray daily for years? If your body was as pure and toxin-free as it could be?

What do you feed a picky toddler? Every little person is different, but many of them would rather run around and explore the world than sit down and EAT. That was definitely my experience. It's enough to make some parents worry. Even Bethenny Frankel asked via Twitter this weekend: "What's a go to food that you give your children when they don't want to eat but you want some nutrition & calories? Mine is eggs or pbj."

The first response? Some joker replied, "I give mine a bottle of Skinnygirl so they'll shut up and fall asleep." HA HA, very funny. (Unless Skinnygirl comes out with a vitamin-enriched cocktail mix? Kidding!) But seriously, Bethenny got some great, serious responses from a lot of her followers.

The devastating news that Hostess is going out of business has been hitting consumers hard. Well, it's been hitting some consumers harder than others. Some adults responded by buying up all the Twinkies and selling them on eBay. And other people are just crying. Like little Lucas here, a three-year-old who can't bear the idea that his beloved chocolate chip muffins may soon disappear. Time for a HOSTESS MELTDOWWWNNN!

Parents of picky eaters, I get it. After watching you struggle with your "yellow foods only" eaters, even when your first kid will eat anything, I get it. You are doing your best, and your kid just CANNOT ABIDE certain foods.

My kid has always been somewhere in the middle: Not super picky, but he won't eat just anything. Most of the time I can get him to take one bite of everything, and I refuse to make separate dishes for him, but I've still faced the gagging NO monster.

Which is why posts like drive me bonkers: 15 Foods Kids Hate to Eat and How to Make Them Change Their Minds. Oh really? Let's see what you've got.

It's time to put this ridiculous myth to rest: Kids don't like eating vegetables. That's a bunch of baloney! Plenty of kids actually do like eating veggies, and now there's a survey to prove it. Researchers talked with 500 families and found that 83 percent of the kids actually had a "favorite" vegetable. Not just a veg they can stand eating, but one they actually like.

Now here's the really interesting part: About half of the kids surveyed named the same vegetable as their favorite as their moms did. So moms, we may have some influence on which veggies our kids like. Do kids inherit our taste or are they just swayed by what they see us enjoying? Or as my mom would say, "Monkey see, monkey do." And which veggies come out on top?

Oh the controversial hot dog. It's a choking hazard. It's made of mystery meat. I know at least one kid who eats only hot dogs. They're what I rely on every time we get together with our fishing neighbor because my son hates fish. So maybe, just maybe, some of us parents would like to serve our kids something other than a hot dog when we grill.

Here are five ideas for other foods you could grill for your kids -- something fun and tasty for everyone.

It's a glorious weekend afternoon. You've grilled dinner for the family, and the air is infused with the blessed aroma of roasted bird meat. That cheap rose is really working for you. Everyone sits down at the table and that's when you hear it. Those words that will kill your grilling buzz: "Ew, I don't like that black stuff on my chicken!"

Grill marks. They're up there with "my food is touching other food" and "what are those little green things."

So fine. Obviously this is no time to jump out of your seat and whip up some safe macaroni and cheese for your sensitive flower. You really can grill meat without getting grill marks. Here's how.

Any parent of a picky eater knows the stress that comes along with it. And I don't just mean a kid who won't eat broccoli. I mean picky to the pickiest degree of pickiness. I have twins -- one eats like a champion and has given me more grey hairs at mealtime than I care to admit. Sometimes a whole day goes by where he refuses everything except milk and a few peanut butter sandwich crackers. And then I try calming myself by saying, Well at least it was some protein.

When I talked to our pediatrician about it, she did calm me by saying how we have to look at a toddler's food intake by the week, not the day. If they don't eat well for one day, but then eat better the next, we shouldn't worry. In fact, a couple of days could go by with some major pickiness and food refusal and your child will likely still keep up with the kid who eats everything.

Still, parents of picky eaters get desperate. And we do things to get our kids to eat out of desperation. Questionable things ....