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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kids started appreciating good food at about 10 or 11.  Before that, they ate what was in front of them it strongly preferred food that was a little bland and separate.  
Like they might eat almomds and Brussels sprouts seperately at 6 years old.  But at 10 years old they liked to put almonds on the Brussels sprouts and realized they were even better when toasted with a little drizzle of vinegar or honey.

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This is OP.  This is exactly what my kids are like -- they will eat the brussel sprouts and the almonds separately but not together and Mom, please don't put any "funny" sauces on them like balsamic.  I wanted to know when flavor palates started expanding to more adventuresome tastes and taste combinations.  They are 5 and 8, by the way.

These posts do tend to bring out the parents who have kids who eat everything and do so because their parents didn't feed them kid food and fed them "what we ate" from the very beginning, don't they?  Yeah, so did I, and that worked when they were younger than 3, but after that they asserted more opinions.  It's common.

They are not super picky -- they eat Asian flavors because we are Asian and they readily eat things like seaweed which some people seem to think is pretty out there -- but their taste drift to bland and kid-food like.  Which, by the way, can be found in Asian kids too --  kid meals in Japan tend toward bland potato croquettes and karaage (the Japanese equivalent of chicken fingers) with steamed broccoli.

Interesting that some posters say it might change with puberty and just getting a bigger appetite and also with peer pressure.     [/quote]

pp here.  These posts do tend to bring out some hard core parents.

I will tell you that I did none of these things, and my middle schoolers still like funny sauces :)  By the time they were old enough to be picky, they were old enough to make their own peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, and I always allowed anyone to eat PB&J whenever they wanted to.

I am willing to bet that your 8 year old will start trying more pretty soon.  You will be surprised.  It sounds to me like you are already doing the main things:
1)  have family meals
2)  cook regularly and teach your kids to cook and help with meal prep
3)  teach your kids kindness and empathy.  Frankly, at a certain age, it's pretty rude not to taste and try to like a meal that someone put some effort into making for you.  Sure, four year olds are pretty obsessed with themselves, but a 10 year old should know better.  
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