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[quote=Anonymous]Kids are picky eaters. I don’t know if picky is quite the right word, because many kids just will not eat… it’s not like it’s just that the food is not what they prefer. They will just go all day not eating at all! I don’t know if this is new, but growing up we are what was served or we didn’t eat. Picky kids might have picked at food but generally found something to eat.

I used to supervise school lunch so have some kid food anecdotes from the last 5 years. These surprised me, so maybe others would be mildly interested:

1. One kid brought Lunchables every single day. I asked about it and she said her parent buys a whole stack every week or two and she just picks one to bring. I don’t know if she liked them or if it was just convenient.

2. Another kid always had Jimmy John’s sandwiches or else was sitting at a lunch table with no lunch. When I asked about it, a teacher told me his dad buys a lunch and brings it to school every lunch period.  It’s always Jimmy John’s because that is what the kid will eat. One day the dad forgot and the kid was encouraged to eat school lunch, which was orange chicken, rice, and other standard kid pleasers. He ate a few grains of rice and said he didn’t like it. This was an athletic, goofy kid who was always running hard at recess and messing around with other boys. I wouldn’t have thought he would just starve all day, but I guess he would have not for sub sandwiches.

3. At a recent party I was supervising, a dad came up and apologized that his son didn’t like what was being served. It was cheese pizza, pepperoni pizza, and white cake, so I was confused. The dad explained that he can’t get the kid to eat pizza, spaghetti, pasta, or anything with cheese or tomato sauce. I thought pizza and noodles were pretty much universal kid foods.

4. One kid brought a king size candy bar as part of lunch. This wasn’t a one time thing. I did wonder if this was her parent’s way of showing love, even though this is an area where kids have had lots of dental work done (not uncommon for kids to have several metal crowns done before 2nd grade). [/quote]

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