Works the same way with kids.
Buy food: kid gobbles it down.
Buy again next week: kid gobbles it down. “You like that food?” “Yes, it’s good!”
Buy bulk pack of food 2 weeks later to save some cash and not forgetting to buy it next time. Kid has one more, then hates it. Now have multiple packages of chocofruitysugarbomb oatmeal that nobody wants to eat sitting in the cupboard until it expires.
Repeat for the next food item.
tbf don’t think a kid should be eating that much chocofruitysugarbomb oatmeal regardless of if they like it or not, that’s how someone like me who has ADHD (which gives me sensory issues and makes me super picky) gets even MORE picky and becomes addicted to sweet food. allegedly
a bowl of the average cereal is about the same value nutritionally as eating a bowl of ice cream with a pile of hay on top, certainly not something one should eat regularly
My cat did this with the wet food, so I switched her back just the dry stuff and she immediately started meowing in protest of no longer getting the food she’s been refusing to eat for two weeks lol
do you not like her? you don’t have to own a pet if you can’t manage it?