Reply to When did your kid-food-liking kid start becoming an adventurous eater?

Forum Index » General Parenting Discussion

Reply to "When did your kid-food-liking kid start becoming an adventurous eater?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not what you want to hear, OP... but we limited kid food between 0-3 so they would develop a taste for other things.  No snacks except fruit and only water between meals. Start meals with vegetables, then protein, then grain. A lot of variety and little pasta, bread, etc. They were hungry so they ate everything. We also took them to a lot of ethnic restaurants early on — Mexican, Indian, Thai, middle eastern, Korean, etc. — and made a big deal about how delicious the food was. They learned to love trying new things and will eat everything we eat. I feel like it is harder when they get older because it becomes a control issue and also a psychological familiarity one. Anxiety develops between ages 3-8 so kids at those ages often don’t want to try new things. YMMV.[/quote]

I know kids whose parents felt like this and who ended up with kids who only ate 5 things, but the 5 things were just trendy things.  So, yes, their kid ate goat cheese instead of string cheese, but goat cheese isn't actually more nutritious, it's just harder to find.  [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics