The toast cannot be uncut. You both know that.
Consider the rest of their day. They did not choose to get up, or what to wear, or to go to school, or who to sit next to, or when to come home. Almost everything about a small child's day is decided by somebody else, mostly for good reasons, and mostly without anybody noticing how total it is.
Then a plate arrives. And nobody can make a person swallow.
A short book about the twenty minutes around the plate - the sauce, the peas that are touching, the thing they asked for on Sunday.
Inside:

• What "wrong" actually means: temperature, wet against dry, contact, the shape it was cut into, and who made it
• Why it gets to you more than the coat or the bath does
• Things that make it worse - you liked it last week, three more bites, hiding things in it, making them sit until it is gone
• Say almost nothing about the food, and why the quieter you are the less there is to push against
• Letting the parts stay apart, and having one thing that is always on the table
• Serving it before you sit down, so nothing is being presented to anybody for approval
• What to say at the table, and two that add pressure
• Whose voice is actually at the table - and how much of what gets said at five o'clock is inherited
• The school lunch worry, and why the answer is usually to ask the school rather than press harder at home
• Eating in front of other people, which is a different event entirely
• The whole book on one page, for the evenings there is no time to read anything

Nothing here is about getting more into them.
You are not responsible for what goes in. You are responsible for what is offered, and for what the twenty minutes is like - and the second part is the bit you can actually change.
"Put it down. Say nothing."
For the parent, not the child. Sixty-four pages, small enough for a coat pocket.
This book supports everyday emotional awareness. It is not a screening tool and it is not a substitute for professional guidance.
From the Little Signals world: quiet stories and tools that help small humans notice their signals and find their way back to steady. No quick fixes. No hype. Regulation before optimisation.