Kids and weird eating habits

[Melissa034]

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My reply......"Well it's this or over cooked brussel sprouts.....take your pick"

ew e brussel sprouts again

 

[SallyF]

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I thoroughly sympathize with your DD. When I was a kid, a classmate told me that elbow macaroni was made out of grubworms. Although I knew that wasn't true, every time I saw mac & cheese I thought of grubs. Didn't eat the stuff until I was in my forties. Now I'm not stupid, and I knew that shells, elbow mac, and spaghetti were all the same thing just in different shapes, but that association in the mind can be a powerful thing!

 

[PineappleMama]

Now that just reminded me of Lost Boys... *shudder* glad we didn't have Chinese tonight.

 

[Southernbelle]

As a child, my sister ate her green beans seperately.

She liked to open up her green beans and make two piles: one of the tiny little beans inside the green bean, one of the green bean "shells" that she'd just split open. Then she'd eat both piles seperately.

When my oldest DD was about 4, I caught her opening up the green beans, eating the little bean out of the center and setting the shells aside. After opening them all and eating all the little beans, she ate the pile of green bean shells. She had never seen anyone eat green beans this way.

I called my sister and told her that it's all her fault and somehow some of her defective genes have made it through the gene pool and ruined my child.

 

[urban dreamer]

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I like my green beans with Ketchup.

 

[therealsilkiechick]

my oldest will eat scrapple, stuffed cabbage and weird oldfashioned things his grandparents eat when he visits.

when i was married to his father my x-mil always made me pizza or chicken so she knew she was safe,lol. he eats lots of things my other kids wouldn't.

my other 4 some will not eat greenbeans but i started boiling them in butter and adding spices most at least eat it now if not like it. another way is i fill a casoral pan with them in the bottom and put chicken or pork on top and cover it in gravy and spices and bake it that helps too. i do have one that refuses to eat anything green except spinich leaves and brussel sprouts,lol. he hates vinigar so won't eat any dressings except for french. they won't eat onions or peppers. i got them good with peppers i buy the red/yellow ones now.

they haven't figured it out yet and don't know what minced onions r either.

the weirdest one we all eat except my husband is balogna and pb my hubby says that is nasty and pb is not a condament, rotfl. i tell him don't mock it till ya try it. he eats sardeens and pb.

when my kid's were little they would not eat jello cause of how it wiggled in their mouths, lol. they would not eat rice or rammon noodles broke up cause it looked like maggots to them. they will not eat the mack an cheese unless it is the creamy cheese. they refuse to eat the powdered, i don't either for same reason. i sneak things in also but i'm picky with food also. my rule is if i eat it u got to eat it or u gotta at least try it and not a tiny bite. they all wouldn't eat chinese till i started makeing sweat and sour chicken and my dh makes generals chicken now they always want to got out to the chinese resteraunts here. they will eat seafood, squirel and crayfish

not me!! some of my kids will bite off the ring around the dill pickles and eat the insides then go back and eat the rings. some will eat the caseings off of hotdogs then go back and eat the middles. kid's r so weird how they eat sometimes.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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It's a better diet than my son's friend. He would eat NOTHING but macaroni & cheese (I don't think the shape mattered to him) and pop tarts. No peanut butter, no fruits, certainly not veggies or meat; no bread. We first met him in 2nd grade; his diet has not improved much (now 11th grade)---he will now eat various forms of chips and drink mountain dew. His mom said she wanted to "choose her battles."

 

[dntd]

My dd who's almost 5 had her first pogo. I couldn't believe the face she gave me"why the heck would I want to eat that". In words she said"look mom, a hot dog in bread with a stick"she ate only one bite, she's usually a good eater. We eat tons of odd food, she has even ate and enjoyed centry egg

 

[arabianequine]

I could never get enough black pepper or onions on or in stuff. Oh yum onion and mustard sandwiches.....they are really good.

But kids RANCH they will put it on anything and dunk anything in it usually....so cold veggies they will eat them better with ranch.

 

[Frosty]

Kids... mine will at least try anything that I put in front of them, and quite often like it. But... when DD was little, she would NOT eat spaghetti or anything with tuna. One day, while removing the casing from a sausage to make spaghetti sauce, DD asked what it was. I told her that it was a 'dak rat' (what they call these little gophers that everywhere around here). I told her that I was skinning it to make spaghetti. She asked if I killed it myself and I told her that I ran over it with the car. Oddly enough, she actually ate her spaghetti for once and loved it! I just worried that she would tell the folks at daycare that mommy runs over dak rats to make spaghetti. Tuna? She saw the mermaid on the label and was all excited saying that it was the Little Mermaid. I told her that it was, and we were eating the Little Mermaid for dinner. She decided that she loves tuna.

I tried making spinach with vinegar once... they ate it but informed me that they don't want it again, that it 'looks like something that the cat hacked up'. They used to always want 'green eggs', and I didn't like feeding them food coloring all of the time. So I added a bit of every color that I had available. They ended up a sick grayish brown with flecks of odd colors in them. Now fondly remembered as the 'dumpster eggs' (they said that they looked like they were scraped from the bottom of a dumpster). They never again asked for colored eggs.