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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]

I am no expert but I think some of it is inborn. Whether that's taste buds or exposure or what, I don't know. My 2.5 year old adores vinegar. Anything with vinegar. Olive oil and vinegar, chicken in vinegar sauce, adobo - if it's got vinegar, she'll eat it. Why? Who knows. She also adores broccoli, raw. My 5 year old hates all vegetables (literally used to gag but we've slowly gotten to a point where he'll take a couple bites of broccoli or cucumber without gagging), hates chicken, hates pretty much all meat actually except processed salty stuff like salami. Only recently has he started eating hot dog, and like a PP said, it was cause for celebration because finally he can eat something if we go to a barbecue. He won't even eat white rice, which sucks because DH and I love Asian food but he will eat literally nothing, while the 2 year old gobbles down spring roll, fried rice, lo mein, chicken, etc. 5 year old basically subsists on pasta, fruit, cheese, nuts, and PB&J sandwiches. The 2 year old won't eat pasta, cheese, or jelly (but will eat straight peanut butter). They have completely opposite tastes. Basically I cook what I want to cook and the 2 year old usually eats it or seems fine skipping the meal if she doesn't want it, and DS has to try some and then can supplement with cheese or yogurt. It's annoying as hell so I'm just keeping fingers crossed that he grows out of it. He won't even eat eggs anymore and he used to eat them several times a week until a few months ago. Gah.[/quote]

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