I knew a mother who had a rather unique approach. She fed her kids the usual baby food and strained meats, but she would eat vegetables and salads in front of them.
For 2 years she told them, “No you can’t have any of my food—it’s only for adults/big people.”
Finally, she gave in and let them eat salads and veggies. They couldn’t get enough of them, since they were now big people. The ‘green’ habit lasted.
Living in the SF Bay Area, we had our kids eating all sorts of dishes from around the world at very early ages. Their school potlucks were fun because you could taste cuisine from all over the world. They all grew up as adventurous eaters and aren’t picky at all. Our middle daughter married a meat-and-potatoes guy who never really experienced ethnic cuisine from around the world, so they have an interesting challenge.
I think it’s great to expose your kids to lots of different foods at an early age.
Is this the same moron that says grilling a burger ruins it?
Lobster Used to Be Food for Prisoners, Animals, or the Very Poor
https://culinarylore.com/food-history:lobster-used-to-be-food-for-prisoners-animals/
When I was growing up we ate whatever was served. We sat at the table until everything on the plate was finished. Even the succotash and the turnip. Awful!
Needle-nose gar backstrap cooked in butter tastes like lobster. Great on pasta.
Me too and that list looks pretty similar though I didnt jump right to lobster on the higher end and have made a point of teaching my children to enjoy kidneys, knipp, and woodchuck on the other end also. Cries of “Daddy, those are yummy!” as my oldest pointed at something led to a number of things like impromptu pheasant hunting or sucker netting.
“My kid wont eat vegetables.” Well then you need a good recipe for parsnip pie, pie spiced acorn squash, or something similar. When they ask for more tell them that you gave it to them by accident because you forgot they didnt like vegetables. It doesnt take long for them to realize that they dont want to miss out and that some things that arent all that great by themselves go great with something else like roast pork with brussel sprouts and sauteed grapes and nuts. When one of mine saw me eating buttered rye with onions and asked about it I told them about a fancy french chef that showed me radishes on white and knowing her preference for raw turnips and pumpernickel I offered her a turnip with ranch on pumpernickel. That was the sandwich she made everyday for about week. Me and my kids still eat all 3 even though just onions on rye is “normal” around here.
I was the son of a chef myself and a large number of my friends were kids with no one home to cook so their diet was entirely composed of their likes not needs. Skinless hot dogs on cheap white, box macaroni and cheese, and plain cheese pizzas made them what they are today to the delight of pharmaceutical companies. I never wanted my kids to have to experience any of that.
A couple of my kids aren’t too keen on Mexican food. When my son was 15 we went to a Mexican place a mile or so from home.
He said he didn’t want to eat it so I said See ya, walk home then. He did.
We found out later he was coming down with Crohn’s disease so he had an excuse.
I find this a bit out of the park. When I was a child I ate what was put in front of me or I didn’t eat. If I ate at someone else’s house I ate what they ate or didn’t eat.
Most people eat what they can, not always what they always wish for. Would I like lobster all the time or porterhouse steaks, baked Alaska or escargot? I most likely would. But I didn’t come up in a family that had the money tree in the back yard that produced year round. We lived on a ranch and had good wholesome food many times fresh and grew up just fine.
I carried the same thought into my family. I married a ranch girl who could really cook and we had food we could afford and put money into other things also. And it sure didn’t hurt my family as my son is huge and strong as a bull, and my daughter is 6 feet and healthy as a horse.
So, what’s the purpose? Wholesomeness, or importance?
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Just give the kid a side dish of Ranch Dressing...
Seen them dip everything in it...
When my daughter was growing up she refused to eat or even try any Fish except fish sticks. So I started making White Chicken for dinner a couple nights a week. It wasn’t until she in High School that she realized White Chicken was Halibut!!!
Picky eater?! No one ever had to point me to the lobster or even better crab legs. They cost a fortune. Yummy
Well, I certainly would have appreciated lobster as a toddler!
But, all I got was frog legs!
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Not a bad idea, if you can get your kid to eat different foods.
I read somewhere that back in the early 20th century, prisoners on the coasts were fed lobster because it was considered a throw away food. Guessing it didn’t come with drawn butter though.
Gross. Who TF feeds their kid a trash-eating bug? New Englanders used to crush them and throw them in their gardens as fertilizer.
Real people eat fish. We have refrigeration and flash freezing now. So we can do that.
Bugs were shipped inland alive cuz that was the only inland peoples could get fresh marine life.
I always encouraged our kids to try everything.
If you don’t try new things, you could be missing out on your future “favorite” foods. The upside is huge compared to the risk of not liking something in one meal.
Not to mention that your tastes change throughout your life.
I think the chef is on to something.
My mother said I ate my brother’s spinach after he threw it up. Just saying...
Fava beans and a nice Chianti.
cocky arrogant rich....