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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Adult picky eaters-- were your parents adventorous eaters?

My oldest (7.5) eats anything--mussels, clam pizza, spinach, etc.  My youngest was SEVERELY picky---to the point I almost got him evaluated.  It was pain-staking to get him to try anything.  He just turned 5 and is so much better now--but still fairly basic.

I grew up with a dad that was always taking us to hole-in-the wall ethnic restaurants and cooking up a storm.  The man loves food.  He is 1/2 Italian.  I was eating all types of cuisine and my dad's enthusiasm for it helped interest me.  My husband grew up in the Midwest with fairly bland food and a mom that didn't cook and we opened his eyes to food.  He now eats anything.

I am hoping the love of food my large family has---holidays and trips revolve around the food--will rub off on my younger one.  It seems to be working.  We also feed the boys earlier since DH works late and I think kids that grow up around the dinner table with everyone sometimes do better with food.  Once my youngest started eating family style at lunch in his preschool---you have to eat what they serve---he got infinitely better about tasting foods and his repetoire expanded.  I was guilty of getting stuck in a rut of feeding him only what he would eat--but his growth had really slowed down around 2-3 years and I wanted to be sure to get the proper nutrients.  Now that he's caught up and older I don't bend as much.

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Super picky adult eater here.  My parents weren't exactly gourmet eaters, and we didn't have an eating out budget, but they were definitely more adventurous than me -- they'd eat all sorts of fish and meat that I wouldn't touch with a ten foot pole.  Now, as an adult, I do have a real affinity for very spicy food, which my parents never served, but I'm still really really picky about WHAT is spiced -- I love hot chicken vindaloo, for instance, but I'll spend an hour picking the crunchy seeds that the restaurant mixes into the white basmati rice before I actually eat it.  (I've got more of a thing about texture than flavor, I guess.)

Maybe if my parents were MUCH more adventurous it might have made a difference...like, if I was missing out on family experiences as a kid or something - but I don't think their expanded tastes made much of a difference to me.  They kept cooking food that I wouldn't eat.[/quote]

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