At what age did you DC outgrow food pickiness that is mostly texture-based, if they did at all?

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The big thing he hates is bread! He hates the way it squishes in his mouth and the texture. He orders sandwiches wrapped in lettuce where he can and at other places he'll just eat in innards and leave the bread.

What about "hard bread": breadsticks? pita chips? soft breadsticks? hard or soft pretzels? crackers? triscuits/ritz?

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My kids were picky until they hit their growth spurts and got hungry, really hungry. Food became interesting to them, so 11 for my daughter and 13 for my son. It is so much easier now.

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Anonymous wrote:6 yo DS is somewhat picky and it appears it's mostly texture-based. He prefers hard crunchy food, abhors mushy soft food. He was like this even as a baby. I have never known him to eat yogurt or stews or mashed potatoes or anything mushy -- ok, ice cream is an exception. Cereal without milk is ok, cereal with milk a big NO! No oatmeal.

Typically kids like this want their food to be all one texture. They don't like two textures at the same time -- so no cereal with milk, no yogurt with berries in it or nuts on top.

They want food to stay basically the same texture all the way through as they eat it. So the don't like grapes or orange sections because those are hard at first but then become squishy and slimy. They do often like peeled apples or pears, because those stay more firm even as you chew them. (You have to take the peel off though because that is a second texture.)

They often like crunchy bacon but not squishy bacon. They often like certain crackers.

If they do like peanut butter they won't like crunchy peanut butter.

One thing you can do is teach them to chew with their back molars on some food. For some reason that helps.

Does ANYone like "squishy" bacon?

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Anonymous wrote:My niece is 13 and still very picky, cannot eat food with sauce, etc. I figure she'll get better in her 20s. Or not.

My mother is in her 80's and still won't eat food with sauce, etc. She's a nightmare and it's nearly impossible to go to restaurants with her etc. She's weirdly proud of her eating disorder and bragged about how she went to Europe with my dad and just brought her jar of peanut butter everywhere and ate peanut butter and bread. Honestly, I think she's on the spectrum but undiagnosed.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:6 yo DS is somewhat picky and it appears it's mostly texture-based. He prefers hard crunchy food, abhors mushy soft food. He was like this even as a baby. I have never known him to eat yogurt or stews or mashed potatoes or anything mushy -- ok, ice cream is an exception. Cereal without milk is ok, cereal with milk a big NO! No oatmeal.

Typically kids like this want their food to be all one texture. They don't like two textures at the same time -- so no cereal with milk, no yogurt with berries in it or nuts on top.

They want food to stay basically the same texture all the way through as they eat it. So the don't like grapes or orange sections because those are hard at first but then become squishy and slimy. They do often like peeled apples or pears, because those stay more firm even as you chew them. (You have to take the peel off though because that is a second texture.)

They often like crunchy bacon but not squishy bacon. They often like certain crackers.

If they do like peanut butter they won't like crunchy peanut butter.

One thing you can do is teach them to chew with their back molars on some food. For some reason that helps.

Does ANYone like "squishy" bacon?

Me and my kid. I like my bacon thick and with some chew to it, not crispy or crunchy.

I hated certain "mushy" foods as a kid -- creamy mashed potatoes, oatmeal, Cream of Wheat, overcooked veggies, mushrooms. It was a pretty specific aversion--pudding or creme brulee or Jello was okay, but polenta was not. Those foods just triggered my gag reflex. And frankly, as an adult, I *still* don't like those things, although I like oatmeal better (I put lots of "stuff" in it to give it texture). If someone serves polenta, I have to eat it with the meat or beans or vegetables in it -- I can't stand it plain. So it's possible that the kid just never grows out of it.

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DD has gotten a lot better over time. One thing I've noticed is that she is more willing to try stuff, if her friends are, and introducing new foods is easier when going out with friends. It's good that she has lots of friends that are either healthy eaters, or have food aversion issues that are different from hers.

So, for years when she wouldn't calamari that we ordered, we didn't think she ever would. But after that one time when a friend of hers ordered it, hogged, and wouldn't share (until his parents made him)? She started eating calamari that day (one, but hey, it's a start). A few years later, it's one of her favorites.