S/O What do picky eaters eat, in your experience?
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Anonymous
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I'm the OP of the breakfast for dinner thread, and one thing that surprised me was the number of people saying that their kids don't eat breakfast food.
I feel like the carby parts of breakfast are something almost every kid I know eats. I think I know more kids who'd refuse pizza than a muffin, or a waffle. So, do you feel like there are foods that are universally kid friendly? If so, what are they? Foods to avoid? |
Anonymous
| The picky eaters in my family love scrambled eggs and pancakes. Breakfast for dinner is always a hit. |
Anonymous
| Pancakes. Waffles. Bagels. Pasta with butter. Peanut butter sandwiches. Cheerios. Berries. Applesauce. |
Anonymous
| BreD and butter and rice for mine. |
Anonymous
| Every picky eater is a disaster in their own way. I’ve done my best to crush that out of my kids and for the most part it works. Now they sometimes rotate randomly not liking things they loved two weeks ago. |
Anonymous
| chicken nuggets pizza and mac and cheese. i can't believe what parents feed their kids! |
Anonymous
| Buttered noodles, mac and cheese (whatever way they are used to seeing it), chicken nuggets, carrots, bread and butter, peanut butter sandwiches (if not allergic), plain rice, oatmeal, Cheerios, apple slices, banana, applesauce, toast and butter, bagel, milk, milk shakes. |
Anonymous
| Chicken nuggets. My mom is extremely well traveled. Multiple exotic trips a year, visited every continent and loves new adventures. Except she hates foreign food. She’s the American searching out McDonald’s in Israel and chicken nuggets in China. I don’t get it at all. But strangely enough, nearly every restaurant in the US whips out chicken nuggets or chicken strips for her. A lot of time off the kids menu but waiters don’t comment. Ugh |
Anonymous
There is not universal rule to pleasing picky eaters. They all have their preferences... But these suggestions are your safest. Plain bread/carbs are the safest, then have various options of sauces, condiments, protein, vegetables, to top and/or accompany those items. |
Anonymous
| I think it really depends on the picky eater -- my picky phase was totally fruit focused. I hated bread and anything greasy. My kid is the same -- eats the blueberries out of blueberry pancakes before grudgingly eating the pancakes themselves and refuses to eat almost all meat (including chicken nuggets). So your premise (breakfast is more likely to be palatable) is true because yes, my kid will refuse pizza but not always muffins and often there's something fruit-related in breakfast, but no, there are no universal foods for all picky eaters. |
Anonymous
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My “picky eater” won’t touch anything with sauce. Broccoli, peas, carrots - all fine. But no butter on the broccoli (my ILs do this). No sauce on pasta. No gravy on meat or potatoes.
He also doesn’t like things combined, so scrambled eggs with a side of turkey sausage is fine. But a breakfast casserole that has eggs and sausage he would skip over. There is no universal “picky eater”. |
Anonymous
They can whip it out because everyone likes nuggets. I don't really get your 'ugh,' some people are not culinarily adventerous; what's the big deal? |
Anonymous
| My picky eater eats carbs and fruit (basically anything from those categories). Don't muck it up with sauce or mixing or anything fancy, just give him grapes and a biscuit or strawberries and plain pasta. |
Anonymous
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I find that picky eaters don't like foods that are combined or mixed together. Make it plan and any toppings or mixes can be added later for those who like it.
My kid, for example, likes corn, likes peas, likes lima beans but wouldn't eat succotash. |
Anonymous
| In general, brown things and candy. |