My kid with a sensory disorder and gag reflex couldn't handle textures like avocado and yogurt. He wanted crisp textures. Now as a young adult, he can eat anything but will still prefer other textures. Avocado only in California rolls! We're Japanese and they love most Japanese foods... except perhaps for natto

My kid won't eat pizza, pasta with anything but a simple butter or cheese sauce, quesadillas or anything with grill marks or visible signs of cooking, and kind of meat (texture and smell aversions), or any kind of leafy green unless blended into a smooth (and not a green smoothy -- she lets me put greens in a berry smoothie as long as they don't turn the smoothie green and there's no bitter flavor from them).

Oyakadon? In my dreams. That's the kind of thing we make often but DD won't touch. If the food is strong smelling (especially if there is meat in it) she sometimes can't eat the more basic foods we prepare for her even at the same table. She has a diagnosed disorder, it's not just stubbornness. But it is hard -- we love food and cooking and it's tough not to feel like we can share that with our DD. We bake with her a lot to make up for it, and try to experiment with recipes that work within her sensory limitations. But yeah, the idea of being able to serve her shawarma or steak tacos or even just pasta with kale or spinach or like a chicken parm or just any of the many, many foods we love sounds thrilling.

Last night I made a pesto sauce out of arugula and pistachios and served it with fresh pasta and crisp pancetta. It was so good. DD has the pasta with some butter and parmesan on top, and some apple sauce since she wouldn't eat the served vegetable. It's fine but internally I'm so sad.

Avocados

Thank you for this! I forgot this dish! Gonna make it soon!

My guess is you could pull some chicken out right before you add the egg and serve it with the rice. I don’t know if that would address the issue but if it’s the visual they are reacting to it might! Or serving them rice with scrambled eggs.

For my kids, serving simplified or deconstructed versions of foods was a great way to bridge them to eating new things.

Anonymous wrote:My middle kid won't eat pizza. Weirdo.

+1 Mine’s also a weirdo.

Pasta. What kid won’t eat pasta? One of mine.

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Anonymous wrote:There’s probably a bunch I could name, but I love oyakadon - I admit that it can look unappealing but it’s so goddamn good. I made it tonight and also did some dumplings to keep the natives from getting too restless but it’s on the list of things I’d have regularly if it didn’t provoke such unrest.

Just give the kids baked chicken thighs and hard boiled eggs. Why you got to make it look like baby vomit?

It looks absolutely delicious to me, but yeah most kids like their food very separate. They'll grow out of it.

The picture I saw looks like baby vomit. Might be closer to baby diarrhea, either way my kids wouldn’t touch it.

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Anonymous wrote:There’s probably a bunch I could name, but I love oyakadon - I admit that it can look unappealing but it’s so goddamn good. I made it tonight and also did some dumplings to keep the natives from getting too restless but it’s on the list of things I’d have regularly if it didn’t provoke such unrest.

Just give the kids baked chicken thighs and hard boiled eggs. Why you got to make it look like baby vomit?

It looks absolutely delicious to me, but yeah most kids like their food very separate. They'll grow out of it.

Not my kids but I wish to heck I could love salmon. It's pretty good for you and so universally pushed on us. Just inconvenient that I don't eat it, really.

I didn’t know what food you were talking about so I googled it and it looks DELICIOUS. Kids don’t know what they are missing

My middle kid won't eat pizza. Weirdo.

Anonymous wrote:There’s probably a bunch I could name, but I love oyakadon - I admit that it can look unappealing but it’s so goddamn good. I made it tonight and also did some dumplings to keep the natives from getting too restless but it’s on the list of things I’d have regularly if it didn’t provoke such unrest.

Just give the kids baked chicken thighs and hard boiled eggs. Why you got to make it look like baby vomit?

One of my kids hates chicken and rice.

I have never heard of this food you mentioned.

There’s probably a bunch I could name, but I love oyakadon - I admit that it can look unappealing but it’s so goddamn good. I made it tonight and also did some dumplings to keep the natives from getting too restless but it’s on the list of things I’d have regularly if it didn’t provoke such unrest.