Re: Re-reading Tightwad Gazette
I am not today a picky eater...at all...
However, there is one food i can't eat much of, and that's cooked spinach. The smell and taste nauseated me as a child, but i was forced many a time to remain at the table, alone, until i had finished eating it. I actually threw up once cus i hated it so much. So forcing a child to eat something is a big mistake, becus i wasn't a difficult child or a stubborn one, i really just did not like it. I do like it raw in a salad today, and can handle small amounts of cooked spinach WHEN MIXED WITH SOMETHING else, but that's it.
Originally posted by Tightwad Kitty
Hi Cercis I agree with you on the texture issues that cause projectile vomiting is best avoided if possible.
In my family both adults and children were picky eaters too! Today my son and his wife won’t eat onions or fish still. I eat very different from them as I like exotic fruits that I grow, and lentils and beans along seafood, very spicy foods from many different parts of the world that they will not eat at all.
War and Peas Vol 3 (p792 CTG)
Theme - food –‘overcoming picky eating’
TG – Quote – ‘Picky eating often results from one or all of these parental mistakes.’
(in brief)
1. The child has not been given enough limits. He dictates what is bought and when and how it served.
2. The child ‘s eating has become the entire focus of the meal.
3. One or both parents are picky eaters. (In my son’s case it was his grandfather that was the picky eater as he was raised in a four generations household.)
My thought on picky eaters.
Another problem, I see is ‘brand loyalty’ when you have to buy that ‘brand’ or two different brands for different members in the household. I see this is OK only if that person in question has a special diet issue.
I do think, 2 or 3 small to medium mouthful depending on age rule, unless the child has food intolerance to it, is the best method to try first. Another method would be to disguise the food in the dish by blending/ puree or any other method you can think of. Some foods are required taste and need to be induced very slowly.
My own required taste of unusual foods came from my mother’s father. As small child, my grandparents would put the food in a small bowl that had my favourite picture of old world horse and cart on it, if I wanted to see the picture then I had to eat the food on top of it. funny what you remember after fifty years.
In my family both adults and children were picky eaters too! Today my son and his wife won’t eat onions or fish still. I eat very different from them as I like exotic fruits that I grow, and lentils and beans along seafood, very spicy foods from many different parts of the world that they will not eat at all.
War and Peas Vol 3 (p792 CTG)
Theme - food –‘overcoming picky eating’
TG – Quote – ‘Picky eating often results from one or all of these parental mistakes.’
(in brief)
1. The child has not been given enough limits. He dictates what is bought and when and how it served.
2. The child ‘s eating has become the entire focus of the meal.
3. One or both parents are picky eaters. (In my son’s case it was his grandfather that was the picky eater as he was raised in a four generations household.)
My thought on picky eaters.
Another problem, I see is ‘brand loyalty’ when you have to buy that ‘brand’ or two different brands for different members in the household. I see this is OK only if that person in question has a special diet issue.
I do think, 2 or 3 small to medium mouthful depending on age rule, unless the child has food intolerance to it, is the best method to try first. Another method would be to disguise the food in the dish by blending/ puree or any other method you can think of. Some foods are required taste and need to be induced very slowly.
My own required taste of unusual foods came from my mother’s father. As small child, my grandparents would put the food in a small bowl that had my favourite picture of old world horse and cart on it, if I wanted to see the picture then I had to eat the food on top of it. funny what you remember after fifty years.
However, there is one food i can't eat much of, and that's cooked spinach. The smell and taste nauseated me as a child, but i was forced many a time to remain at the table, alone, until i had finished eating it. I actually threw up once cus i hated it so much. So forcing a child to eat something is a big mistake, becus i wasn't a difficult child or a stubborn one, i really just did not like it. I do like it raw in a salad today, and can handle small amounts of cooked spinach WHEN MIXED WITH SOMETHING else, but that's it.
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