Success: Got our toddler to try new foods (finally)

Our 3yo has been on like a 6-month "only beige foods" diet and we were losing it. Tried everything - hiding veggies, making it fun, zero pressure - nothing worked. Then randomly last week he tried a bite of my stir fry and actually ate it? Now he'll eat like... 3 new things. It's not much but after months of the same 8 foods I'm celebrating hard. Apparently the trick was just him deciding when he was ready, not us forcing anything. Weird how that works with kids.