Do (Did) Any Of Your Children and/or Grandchildren Have Peculiar Eating Habits?

[OneEyedDiva]

When my granddaughter was about two we discovered she loved to suck on lemons. We were strolling her on the boardwalk one afternoon and people took notice of this little girl sucking on a lemon. My youngest grandson hardly wanted to eat anything when he was a toddler. And what he ate had to be plain. If it was rice, no gravy. If it was pancakes, no syrup. It took him many years to even try new foods.

My son is a pescatarian and only eats certain fish. He thinks nothing of going on 3 and even 10 day fasts. Nor is it unusual for him to eat only one meal a day. He stopped eating beef decades ago and I will say that after he cut it out of his diet, the eczema on his stomach cleared up. He also refuses to eat any seedless fruit. Fruit is supposed to have seeds.

 

[Blessed]

I thought my son would never get past certain things. As a toddler he would not eat just anything. It was mac & cheese, green beans, fish sticks. Finally he moved on to chicken nuggets, french fries. Then the world exploded, he would try anything. He would walk around the table when the family went out to eat and say can I have a bite. Very embarrassing if he got to another table.

Now, he is a walking, I hate to say it a garbage machine, he will try anything. I am not as brave but when I think back, his Dad would eat things I would not go near. There are certain things that he is allergic to, or as he says makes his throat itch and close up. He avoids those things, any thing with bananas or strawberries is off the menu yet sushi does not bother him. I will not touch it. Man, he has been out of the house too long, I know there are other things he will not eat but I can't think of what they are. Good Lord, I could send him to the ER because I have forgotten. Guess, next time he comes over I need to write the stuff down. Is the first sign of dementia ???? LOL

 

[MountainRa]

My children, from the time they were very small, would eat foods other children wouldn’t go near. They loved raw oysters and sushi. And would eat pretty much all vegetables. My nephew and cousins’ children were extremely picky eaters. Which made it difficult when they’d come stay with us. I finally decided they wouldn’t actually die of starvation on my watch if they ate nothing but noodles so I relaxed about it all.

 

[NorthernLight]

We were poor, and couldn't afford sauces and condiments (which can cost more than the food itself). So we often had unadorned spaghetti, pancakes, etc.

My daughter grew to regard these as a nice meal. Her face would light up as she asked me to make "spaghetti with nothing on it" or "pancakes with nothing on them."

 

[jujube]

My great-granddaughters will eat practically nothing, especially the 3-year-old. I don't know what is keeping that child alive and incredibly active and very healthy.

My daughter as a baby, toddler and child would eat anything, even weird things. Her favorite things were lemons, beets, raw onions and spinach straight out of the can, cold and slimy. When she hit adolescence, she switched over immediately to hating about everything I served.

My granddaughter was pretty good about food as a child. She got to be picky as a teenager, though.

I think peer pressure has a lot to do with food preferences. The kid who would eat whatever is put in front of him starts school and hears, "Ewwww, I hate _________________!" and copies his peers.

I once asked my mother if my sisters and I were picky eaters. She said, "Absolutely not.....you knew there wasn't anything else to eat except what was on the table." I can't imagine what some mother are thinking when they volunteer to make three or four different meals at a time for their family.

 

[hollydolly]

Not really, altho' when my daughter was little ..and still eating in a high chair, she wouldn't thank me for any kind of sugary type of cereal for breakfast..Instead she loved Grapefruit..... with cherries..... and she also went through a fad where she would only eat Instant porridge for breakfast lunch and dinner....that was followed for a period of time by canned spaghetti hoops in tomato sauce...

Fortunately.. except for disliking Broccoli and Brussel sprouts to this day.. she grew up perfectly healthy and is not a faddy eater as an adult..

 

[OneEyedDiva]

I thought my son would never get past certain things. As a toddler he would not eat just anything. It was mac & cheese, green beans, fish sticks. Finally he moved on to chicken nuggets, french fries. Then the world exploded, he would try anything. He would walk around the table when the family went out to eat and say can I have a bite. Very embarrassing if he got to another table.

Now, he is a walking, I hate to say it a garbage machine, he will try anything. I am not as brave but when I think back, his Dad would eat things I would not go near. There are certain things that he is allergic to, or as he says makes his throat itch and close up. He avoids those things, any thing with bananas or strawberries is off the menu yet sushi does not bother him. I will not touch it. Man, he has been out of the house too long, I know there are other things he will not eat but I can't think of what they are. Good Lord, I could send him to the ER because I have forgotten. Guess, next time he comes over I need to write the stuff down. Is the first sign of dementia ???? LOL

I found out fairly recently that my son feels he's allergic to soy, so now he won't eat anything containing it. That's not easy to do because soy is in a lot of things in one form or another. I think my son also mentioned his throat closing up a bit. Yes, definitely make note of what your son is allergic to if you're going to feed him. I don't cook for my son. There's too many things he won't eat and often it not his "eat day". We all forget things sometimes...even the "young-uns". Hopefully it's not dementia Blessed.

 

[Capt Lightning]

My both my daughters are very slim, but they could "Eat for England". Just about the only thing they won't eat is offal.
It's nice not to have to worry about what to serve them for dinner when they visit.

 

[Right Now]

Both of my children were pretty normal in their eating habits. I even think I was lucky as they like brussel sprouts, spinach, and broccoli (my son at age three called this green trees). They both also liked liver and onions.

 

[RadishRose]

Yes and it drove me crazy! Thankfully they've grown out if it except some lingering aversions to a few things my younger grandson holds onto. He won't eat mashed potatoes or sea food!