Desperate for help with picky kids

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I didn’t read all the posts. You seem to have them in a low fat diet. Some fat, butter for example, can make so many things taste delicious. Maybe a bit of butter, or heavy cream, or other creamy things like sour cream, may make some less tasty foods more acceptable. Eventually you can change that to olive oil or other healthy oils.

Same poster: wanted to add, I’ve read (and practiced) that if you grow some of your food, or pick it at the farm or farmers market or at the store WITH the kids, it helps them eat it. I can’t say if it’s worked for me, because as babies they ate almost everything. So I don’t know if it was the kids or the strategy. One of mine is getting picky while growing older, but now I can force certain foods. The rule is that some days we eat what we like, and others what others like. One meal for everyone. But again, easier to enforce because of age.

I wanted to also ask: OP, are you a picky eater?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I didn’t read all the posts. You seem to have them in a low fat diet. Some fat, butter for example, can make so many things taste delicious. Maybe a bit of butter, or heavy cream, or other creamy things like sour cream, may make some less tasty foods more acceptable. Eventually you can change that to olive oil or other healthy oils.

Same poster: wanted to add, I’ve read (and practiced) that if you grow some of your food, or pick it at the farm or farmers market or at the store WITH the kids, it helps them eat it. I can’t say if it’s worked for me, because as babies they ate almost everything. So I don’t know if it was the kids or the strategy. One of mine is getting picky while growing older, but now I can force certain foods. The rule is that some days we eat what we like, and others what others like. One meal for everyone. But again, easier to enforce because of age.

I wanted to also ask: OP, are you a picky eater?

OP here - I accidentally left out dairy - they drink lots of milk and love cheese and butter goes on most things! And I'm semi picky? But it's more texture things that I haven't introduced to them (mushrooms, olives, shrimp, etc.) so I don't think my choices are influencing there. I am growing food in the garden and that peeked interest in carrots this summer - gonna try it again.


Thank you all for letting me know they're not picky kids. I am the main meal planner here and DH is convinced we have the worst eaters ever and I let it get to me. Just gonna take the stress off and try to deconstruct our meals more.

[Anonymous]

It sounds like they are eating for the most part healthy foods. Their taste will change over time. Children are really sensitive to not only taste but textures as well and how it feels in their mouth. I would stay away from the white breads though. Brown rice would be great, but that's a texture thing too. I would start making meals ahead of time for them and freezing them, then taking out what they would eat that day to have less prep time. I would make meals that you and your husband enjoy that night. Serve them at the same time and sooner or later they are likely to want what you are eating too. 

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I didn’t read all the posts. You seem to have them in a low fat diet. Some fat, butter for example, can make so many things taste delicious. Maybe a bit of butter, or heavy cream, or other creamy things like sour cream, may make some less tasty foods more acceptable. Eventually you can change that to olive oil or other healthy oils.

Same poster: wanted to add, I’ve read (and practiced) that if you grow some of your food, or pick it at the farm or farmers market or at the store WITH the kids, it helps them eat it. I can’t say if it’s worked for me, because as babies they ate almost everything. So I don’t know if it was the kids or the strategy. One of mine is getting picky while growing older, but now I can force certain foods. The rule is that some days we eat what we like, and others what others like. One meal for everyone. But again, easier to enforce because of age.

I wanted to also ask: OP, are you a picky eater?

OP here - I accidentally left out dairy - they drink lots of milk and love cheese and butter goes on most things! And I'm semi picky? But it's more texture things that I haven't introduced to them (mushrooms, olives, shrimp, etc.) so I don't think my choices are influencing there. I am growing food in the garden and that peeked interest in carrots this summer - gonna try it again.


Thank you all for letting me know they're not picky kids. I am the main meal planner here and DH is convinced we have the worst eaters ever and I let it get to me. Just gonna take the stress off and try to deconstruct our meals more.

Your husband is wrong.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I didn’t read all the posts. You seem to have them in a low fat diet. Some fat, butter for example, can make so many things taste delicious. Maybe a bit of butter, or heavy cream, or other creamy things like sour cream, may make some less tasty foods more acceptable. Eventually you can change that to olive oil or other healthy oils.

Same poster: wanted to add, I’ve read (and practiced) that if you grow some of your food, or pick it at the farm or farmers market or at the store WITH the kids, it helps them eat it. I can’t say if it’s worked for me, because as babies they ate almost everything. So I don’t know if it was the kids or the strategy. One of mine is getting picky while growing older, but now I can force certain foods. The rule is that some days we eat what we like, and others what others like. One meal for everyone. But again, easier to enforce because of age.

I wanted to also ask: OP, are you a picky eater?

OP here - I accidentally left out dairy - they drink lots of milk and love cheese and butter goes on most things! And I'm semi picky? But it's more texture things that I haven't introduced to them (mushrooms, olives, shrimp, etc.) so I don't think my choices are influencing there. I am growing food in the garden and that peeked interest in carrots this summer - gonna try it again.


Thank you all for letting me know they're not picky kids. I am the main meal planner here and DH is convinced we have the worst eaters ever and I let it get to me. Just gonna take the stress off and try to deconstruct our meals more.

One of my kids has literally never eaten a vegetable, only eats 2-3 fruits, and is a vegetarian and somehow she is still alive at age 11.

[Anonymous]

Mine are 2 and 5. The 2 year old is pickier than her sister ever was. But i always have a bowl of frozen peas or flash sauteed broccoli for both and they can have bread (seeded) with butter towards the second half of the meal.