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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Former very picky eater here myself, and one of my kids also was very picky until late teens. My parents forced me to eat a little of everything, and I in turn did not force my kid to eat anything - neither approach worked better than the other :-). We both expanded our palates naturally somewhat in high school and even more so in college and looking back I think “peer pressure” (not wanting to stand out or get left out) was the biggest reason, although some was probably palate maturity, too. [/quote]

+1 This is me. Around middle school, I became embarrassed that I was the only person who scraped the onions off her hamburgers, didn't eat tomatoes or any lettuce, or anything green other than pickles. I doused a salad with Italian dressing one day and found that it wasn't disgusting. 30 years later, I will eat anything that is delicious, which is almost anything well-made. [/quote]

I have a friend whose son was incredibly picky all the way through middle school, with only about a dozen very bland foods he would eat, and no interest in trying anything else. He just wouldn't eat if his preferred foods weren't on the menu. She finally gave up trying to convince him, and did her own thing while he did his. I gather his dad was similar, even as an adult, which probably didn't help. When he was at his dad's house they ate the same two or three things every time, so a limited diet seemed fine to him.

But apparently it was an interest in girls that started him branching out a bit, when he realized that his dates were going to think it was weird that even ketchup had too much flavor for him! By college, he was eating normally, even kind of adventurously.[/quote]

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