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Perky, some kids yes. Some kids no. I don't know how I could have been more exposed to peas. And they still make me run to the bathroom just from the scent.

My theory on picky eating is to ignore it. I make healthy foods, they eat what they want of it and are perfectly free to not eat anything they don't want to eat. Very little gets thrown away (I dont' make a lot of any one thing) and the kids are fed and healthy (even if DS1 mainly eats peanut butter).

I think with many kids making it a focus sets up food aversions that can be extremely difficult to overcome (I have a food aversion to pretzels that came from getting extremely ill after eating the whole bag - even today just thinking about eating them makes me nauseated). My theory is that if a food will taste good to you, the scent of that food will tempt and tantalize you. That's how we found out DS1 liked oats, we cooked them for dh and I and he asked for some because they smelled good.