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[quote=Anonymous]Spinoff to the threads about what people ate growing up and the Midwestern palate...

If you did grow up with a more bland meat and potatoes diet, but now eat more broadly, when did you expand?

I ate basic meat and a side (canned/frozen veggies/lettuce, potatoes) growing up, a lot of basic Italian (pasta and jarred sauce). The only main seasonings were garlic and italian seasoning, salt and pepper. Occasionally made tacos in those hard shells - basically ground beef and the seasoning packet.

I remember trying Chinese food for the first time at a friend's sleepover around 4th or 5th grade and not knowing what to order. Then loving it.

By late middle school and early highschool, had tried more Chinese and other types of Asian style takeout, but stir fry and those flavors weren't eaten much at home.

I tried Indian food for the first time in college and remember being so blown away by how delicious it was.

By my 20s, I wanted to try everything and cook anything.

I met my now DH in his mid-20s and he barely ate vegetables besides potatoes... generally was meat and potatoes/rice, maybe a salad, and would try different flavors, but focused on the meat. His parents never required him to eat the vegetables growing up (mine was the sit there and eat it kind).  He now loves vegetables of all kinds and also will try just about anything now.

Just kind of curious, especially as I have young kids who eat a variety for a sufficient diet, but still prefer things served on the 'bland' side.

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