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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This article from the Post today is really interesting: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/11/04/the-stark-difference-between-what-poor-babies-and-rich-babies-eat/

Be careful what you feed your babies when they are young because it may dictate their preferences later in life.

IMO some kids are picky because of texture or other physiological issues, but those are rare.  ALmost all issues of picky eaters are cultural.  I have two kids and one is somewhat picky.  I take responsibility for that.  For a while when he was younger we didn't handle it well and indulged him.  That said, he does eat plenty of food that is not on the typical "kid friendly" list - because it's been given to him repeatedly since he was tiny- that's why he loves tofu, broccoli and spicy food.

People whose kids will only eat mac and cheese, chicken nuggets and the like have only themselves to blame.[/quote]

Hmm.  I nursed my older DS for 2 years, and made all his food his first year - all sorts of pureed veggies and fruits and even homemade cereals.  He started getting picky at 10 months, rejecting foods and refusing to try the soft cooked stuff. Over the years I've tossed so much food out that he rejected that it's embarrassing, and today in 5th grade he still only eats about 5 different entrees, no veggies, and only a few fruits.

With my other DS, I quickly got him to move from pureed food to regular food and he ate off my plate for the first 2.5 years (I cook everything from scratch).  Then he started rejecting foods and now also eats only about 5 different "entrees," mostly pb&j, and is 6th percentile for BMI. He has no fat on him, because he eats so little and goes to bed hungry quite often.

They were both in daycare/preschools that served them food that they refused to eat, even when the other kids ate them.

I really hated vegetables as a child, as did DH, and neither of our mothers catered to us.  We never were exposed to any "ethnic" food like Chinese or Indian until we got to college.  Now we eat anything.  Meanwhile one of my siblings, who was forced to sit at the table to eat his veggies, today eats only 1 vegetable (carrots), and a limited range of fruits and other foods.

I think a lot of it is genetic.  Some of it's psychological (they are afraid of new foods) and some of it is because of heightened sense of smell and taste and aversions to anything lumpy.[/quote]

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