To wonder why most parents don't give their toddlers any spicy food?

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I understand not giving tiny babies jalepenos.

I understand (when they are confident with eating solid food say over one at least) giving them some plain options and a bit of moderately spicy stuff to try.

I don't understand waiting until they are 5, making a big fuss about it, then being surprised when they don't like it.

According to this thread, apparently no-one, so perhaps you're right bobble!

Am with you bobble. Have no interest in competitive coolitude on food.

DD will happily eat stuff with chillis in (I often make pasta sauce with chilli and tomato, or we have fajitas which are spicy).
She'll eat onion bhajis and samosas and stuff like that.
However she absolutely will not eat yoghurt or rice, so if we are having a hot curry I tend to cook her something else, because I know I can't cool it down for her by stirring yoghurt in, and if I am cooking a separate portion of pasta or potato or whatever then I may as well just her cook a whole separate meal.
So we only have curry when DH will be home late, and DD would need to eat earlier anyway. Maybe I should just keep on offering it to her and then scraping it uneaten into the bin, but that can get a bit tiring after a while.

Dd loves mummies homemade medium spicy chicken tikka masala in small doses.dd is 13 months old

some children just don't like particularly spicy food, it is understandable they are quite small and some very hot food can be too strong for them?
my 1 yr old is actually a bit more adventurous than 2 yr old, who will say the food is too "spiky" and he doesn't want it. so i would rather give him blander things that he would eat more happily. i don't think its a particularly big deal?
also we are a mixed family, half asian and mil does make them special non spicy food, mild mixture of rice cooked with some meat or chicken and brocoli mixed in it or that kind of thing. i think some people have the idea that asian families all just wean the kids on a hot curry or something! they dont. i know other friends of mine whos mils tell them off for putting spices in their babies foods too and warn them it will be too much for a baby etc. i think its universal among most people to have a bit of common sense and start them with something quite simple and not give the hottest food to v young children, unless they show they really like it