To think that kids like fruit?

[BrittaPerry]

Fruit is sweet. Kids like sweet things. So, kids like fruit.

Yes?

Just sick of people being 'amazed' at children asking for fruit, and saying they are really good.

Of course my children nag for apples! They are tasty! If anything, I have to stop them eating too much as it gives them bad bellies.

This isn't boasting, it's just a fact.

I'm just a bit baffled. I'm a bit pushy in other ways, but this doesn't need pushyness because, well, who doesn't like sweet stuff?

DS3 is a total fruitarian - he rarely eats meat or potato; pasta and rice yes, but he'll scoff fruit till the cows come home. Which is an expensive habit costing about £40 a week.

Oh dear - bloody iPhone, sorry.

I must tell you about my Dd2's experience of bananas.

She hates bananas at home but would always eat the "government" bananas at school because they weren't stringy. I told her that that was because Gordon Brown personally destringified them.

When Cameron won the General Election my dd2 was inconsolable because Gordon Brown would not be destringing her bananas. She's gone right off them now

dd loves fruit, ds is more of a vegetable kind of guy. Dd would eat mango until she burst, whereas ds would eat lettuce (on its own - bleurgh) until I stopped him.

Dh eats a lot of fruit but I have to say I dont and wish I was in the habit of it more.

God, mine love fruit.

They eat loads, especially the bloody nectarines and mangos that I am going to have to start hiding for me.

My twins (22 months) won't eat any fruit, other than the blueberries that I chop into tiny pieces and hide in their porridge each morning. They'll eat all vegetables, though. I think they just prefer savoury stuff. To be honest, I spent so long worrying about the challenge of persuading them to eat at all that I began to stop worrying so much about what they ate.

DS HATES fruit. Had detested bananas since first taste. Cries if he accidentally drinks fruit juice. Hdd always been this way.

my dd loves fruit, but my son only likes fruit if it is a certain way.

he like his apple cut up and the the pieces has the be the same size, same with grapes. you can get packs but he don't like food touching. oranges are out of the question pips make he freak and it is too messy.

YABU to think that all kids like fruit, like most things some do some don't.

Mine much prefers haribo to fruit.

She prefers crack to either of those, though.

Hmm. DS has in the last month pretty much given up all fruit and most veg. I know this is because he is about to turn 2 and he's testing boundaries but it wouldn't surprise me if he never becomes a big fruit eater. He's never had a sweet tooth at all and it was always a push to get him to swallow a grape, even. he's a freshairian at the moment.

How do you lot get your DC to eat fruit and veg. My DS will only eat banana, at nursery he's offered fresh fruit and veg every day yet he always refuse. He is 2.5 and this has been going on since weaning.
Anyone with ideas??

ok kids, you can choose a treat
ooh, can I have an apple?

YABU for calling particular foods a "treat". Choosing to eat at an expensive restaurant is a treat, choosing to eat is never a treat, it's something you have to do...

They get to choose a treat, it could be a comic, sweets, fruit, hair bobble, yogurt, moshi monsters cards, etc.

That's not really the issue though, is it?

Sure it is - Food is something you need to eat enough of to live but not too much that it causes health problems. Confusing that notion it with something that is a treat - something you get for being good or whatever doesn't make much sense unless you normally only feed them a perfectly nutritionally balanced but tasteless gruel - which seems a bit pointless.

If they were thirsty would the water be a "treat" ?

Neither DB nor (vegetarian) DH will choose to eat fruit unless cooked eg crumble, fool, pie etc.

But both love adore veggies.

Meanwhile among my DC one cannot abide tomatoes or olives while the others love them, so it's not just about training.

Re the lemon thing - it's that v young kids taste differently - they don't taste sour yet, just sweet, so lemon to them tastes like orange to us. My DC all once loved but now no longer like lemon!

Yes, if it was in a fancy bottle. In fact, sometimes they do choose one of those sports bottles of water. Quite often they choose things we have at home already, I think it is the 'choosing' that attracts them.

They have a healthy and tasty diet, of course, but some food is treat like. Are we meant to deny that some food is nicer than others? Not allow them to spend pocket money on anything edible?

DS hates all fruit except grapes and strawberries, but still eats the fruit purées. Thankfully they now come in funky pouches so he can get away with them at school.

He hates all sweets, juices and ice creams. People comment on that all the time but not so much on his hatred for fruit in its natural form.

I've had people comment on my kids eating fruit or veg before, or even drinking milk! All my boys love fruit and veg, and food generally. They love salad, that always seems to surprise people too. Basically they eat what we eat so it's never seemed strange to me. I guess quite a few of my friends or family have fussy kids so it is surprising to see kids who eat anything.

My stepson hates all fruit and the only veg he eats are peas, sweet corn and carrots, so i know how frustrating it can be to get a child to even try stuff. But he can't even stand the smell of fruit, so I don't think he's ever going to eat it as he's adult now.

Not all kids love fruit. My 4 yr old loves it and always has done. 2 yr old has never put any fruit in his mouth other than bananas, we offer him all the time but he only ever has the banana. that's just how he is. 1 yr old kind of likes fruit but he prefers even sweeter stuff, he can sense a gulab jamun across the room lol
But yeh nothing to be extremely wow about - however I have had comments about my ds1 is good cos he eats fruit, so i just say thanks yes he is a good fruit eater isnt he. its not something to take a lot of offense about?

Um, not all DC like fruit. I have one out of 4 who even after almost 9 years thinks fruit is disgusting. He has very recently grudgingly decided that green grapes are acceptable in tiny quantities, and that watermelon (which is bloody unaffordable) is 'alright'. Any other fruit is met with a sneer that looks like I am trying to force feed him arsenic.

He'll eat veg till it comes out of his ears, and would rather have a pot of hummus and some carrot sticks than any fruit you offered him.

The others could eat enough fruit to put a green grocers out if business, especially DS3, as he lives off fruit, veg, and sod all else.

YABU - and I can't work out if there is some sort of suggestion if all kids like fruit then parents who say their kids don't like it are making it up

DS doesn't like most fruit except bananas and raisins. Liking food isn't just about taste but texture too, that is where your sweet argument falls down.

Unfortunately I can't lead by example as I am allergic to most fruits so can't eat them, but that is also why I am relatively chilled about him waiting till he is ready to try it.

YABU to try to make out that all children are the same / like the same things. I have 3 dc.
dc1 likes apples, and will eat a banana and doesn't mind if there is a slice of kiwi on a cheesecake type thing
dc2 won't eat fruit at all
dc3 loves all fruit - would just have a plateful of all different fruits chopped up as a meal if she could get away with it. She loves seasonal fruit, hard fruit, soft fruit, tinned fruit, tropical fruits, you name it, she loves it.

So what does it prove ? Only that all dcs are individual, and when our dcs are natuarally "good" at something (eating, sleeping, speaking, whatever) we put it down to our parenting....... then child number 2 comes along

My DS likes sprouts. Now that is weird. I must be the only parent who has to say "DS. if you don't eat your fish finger you won't get any more sprouts" I hate them, DH hates them, so God knows where he got it from.

Most kids I know like some fruit, but that isn't to say that given the choice of (eg) a bit of pineapple and (eg) a Fox's party ring, they wouldnt go for the party ring, so sometimes I might be a bit surprised/impressed by a kid who consistently eschews chocolate/crisps/cake for apples.