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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am a picky water. I grew up eating in a family where everyone had different tastes and lots of times there will be multiple separate dishes cooked (and more if grandparents visit). 
It's the same now. Each eats their own dish. Most of the dishes are simple (steak and grilled vegetables for one, grilled shrimp and raw vegetables for another, salad for the third person, etc). Even desserts are different. I don't like brownies without fruit in them, everyone one else hates fruit in the brownies, but some want nuts and some hate nuts. Four separate trays are baked.[/quote]

You make four trays of brownies every time you bake?  That's a lot of work!

I think it's good to teach kids to be adaptable, willing to explore new tastes and gracious to someone preparing the meals (i.e., saying thank you, eating what is on the plate that he DOES like) rather than indulge their very specific personal tastes.  Obviously you are doing to/for your kids what your parents did, but maybe you would have been less picky growing up if you had branched out more from an early age.  Many studies show kids have to try new foods repeatedly to grow to like them.[/quote]
My parents didn't believe in any pressure other then by example. Food was always non-issue, not worth paying attention to, nobody liked junk food. My parents just let me be and I started cooking myself, experimenting. Making extra brownies is just three extra bowls for the dishwasher as they are all based on one recipe (http://www.browneyedbaker.com/outrageous-indeed/). It gets tricker with cakes. All of it is not a complication, but an adventure. 
As for eating what's on the plate: lots of people don't know how to cook and kids have to suffer. We were volunteering at a food bank that provides bags of food for the weekend. People were commenting on cans of clams and other similar stuff as being bad tasting as they didn't even want to think that you can make pretty tasty dishes out of basic stuff. [/quote]

You're setting your kids up to being really high maintenance partners to whoever they choose to spend their lives with.  [/quote]
Looks like people really hate cooking. It is so easy and fun. No wonder there are so many bad restaurants. It's no maintenance. My girlfriend and I started doing girls football Mondays when we cook, watch the game and have fun, while husband's are watching football somewhere. Women who never like cooking now send me recipes they find interesting. The funniest part was is that husbands decided to join in a year later (cooked too), I guess we were more fun. 
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