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?

Mine both hate fruit except raisins & dried mango. One will eat apples & one will have squeezy fruit purées despite doing blw.

I'm not amazed that other kids like fruit, just jealous. You ate bu if you ate smug about it though and put it down to yr fantastic parenting

Spoons, I know that, but he has said that since long before HE was able to understand that they are fruits!

well, some do and some don't. my ds2 is 2.5 and loves most fruit. some more than others (seedless green grapes are his fave but he can give or take strawbs) my ds1 isnt a big fan of grapes but if asked he'll eat strawberries. not bananas though. They both love melon.

This is exactly what I'm talking about. Why do people assume that kids eating fruit is sme kind of achievement? Or that I think it is?

MY ENTIRE POINT IS THAT IT ISN'T SPECIAL. READ THE FUCKING OP.

Yes, some kids don't like or can't eat fruit. Some kids don't like or can't ride a bike, but I don't get random people commenting on my child riding her bike, because most kids do. Why is eating fruit different?

If I posted 'people keep saying that my child is good or that I am mean because they see her riding her bike instead of walking (or riding the bus or whatever)'. You would all be talking about how weird the other people are. Not accusing me of thinking my child is special because she likes riding her bike, or assuming that I am judging you if your child doesn't.

Fruit is a sweet food. Therefore most kids will like it. My entire point is that it isn't something special and I am wondering why people think it is.

Ffs. Sometimes I think ops should just be something like 'kids eating fruit. Discuss' because that is all some people seem to see.

Oooooohh, snarky!

Maybe to you the fairy cake is nicer.

Personally, I love chomping on sticks of carrot. But I equally love cake. Depends on what I fancy at the time.

Why feel sorry for a child you don't even know, who may of chosen something healthy for a snack themselves?

Yes, I feel sorry for those who aren't allowed cakes/sweets whatsoever but only those I know that is the actual case with.

My son does a lot of the time choose fruit before sweets, but only because of Sportacus (the whole fruit/veg gives you energy cartoon thing) and because at his school, they done a healthy eating thing the whole of last year. He does have "treats" every now and then, but he likes to have something healthy first so before he has a packet of crisps, he will eat a banana. His choice through what he has learnt, not me forcing healthy food down him and denying him sweets.

But yet anything to do with a salad (lettuce, celery, cucumber, tomatoes etc) he wouldn't touch if bribed with something he loves. When seeing other children enjoying it, it does make me wish I could get him to but hey ho, every child/adult is different with different tastes.

I think it is sad when others feel pity for children just because they are eating fruit or whatever, when it could very well be that childs own choice to eat that. Especially when they then go on to moaning about the rise of obesity in schools.

not saying anyone on this thread actually does that, but many people do

Quite normal ime, especially for younger children. Many do like fruit and lots of it. Never known anyone to be surprised by this though - most people I know would be more surprised to find a young child who didnt like any fruit.

Maybe I have always lived in weird places where people think fruit is poison...

Not the kids, but random adults.

Don't blame you everlong. So do I most of the time unless on one of my diets once the waistband gets a bit tight but honestly, my son is weird. Sometimes I have to talk him into choosing the shite treats, just so I can pinch some. He honestly would most of the time choose fruit, or a toy/magazine as a treat than crisps/cake/ice cream/chocolate sob.

DSS aged 9 loves fruit but prefers crisps of we're being honest.

DD aged 2 loves fruit but prefers "choc choc"

DD loves olives, prawns, nuts and stuffed hot peppers which attracts "really?" comments. But then again, she has been known to refuse yoghurt or ham. They are funny creatures. I expect if we all only ate what we really fancied at any given moment and refused anything else we'd be the same!

That how I think everlong.

My DC usually think like this but every so often surprise us and request something savory in preference. I can't think why saying no would be reasonable or desirable and would prefer it if random strangers or occasionally GP didn't make the DC feel like they were doing something wrong or that I've done something wrong in allowing it.

BrittaPerry - IME its not just a fruit confined experience. People seem to act oddly to my DC behaving in public or being made to - making comments assuming they won't or praising them for doing what is a basic expectation. Nowt as queer as folk.

I wouldn't pay for cut up fruit/veg in a cafe because it's overpriced for what it is! Whereas I can't bake for toffee mmmm toffee so I don't mind paying for expensive cake :o

My DCs love fruit and eat loads of it but I would think they would choose sweets or cake over it if offered the choice.

DD often asks for a tomato when we have a morning snack. I guess that counts of fruit but I can't say I would just munch on a tomato like it was an apple. Yesterday, after we had a family gathering (ie loads of cake and snacky stuff) she also scoffed her way through a leftover bowl of coleslaw - she's been hooked on that since she was 2.

DCs just don't have the same preconceptions that adults do I guess. I don't think DD has really categorised food yet IYSWIM.

Raw carrots aren't safe in our house either.

They are more nutritious cooked - but I just don't get the chance theses days.

Pealed and chopped up one and covered in dip I'll have them but they eat them straight away - luckily we buy pre-washed.

I have 2 that love fruit, one that will nibble, one that avoids it like poison. If they were all like my "It's poison" kid, I'd be astonished too at OP's DC.

I don't know why everyone's making a point of saying, "I've never heard of anyone being amazed by kids eating fruit", it's obvious what the OP means. We've had this huge govt. campaign going for over 10 years: "just eat more", and there's all the recipe books giving parents ideas on how to sneak more fruit and veg into their kids' dinners. It's not some new idea that a lot of kids are fussy about healthy stuff, whether that's due to their own selves and opinions or some sort of conditioning is a different matter.

I'm astounded at fruit eating people of any age. Cos it's 'orrid. All my life, people seem to have been saying "Try this [fruit]. It's lovely and sweet". It hardly ever is!

quirrel I was the first to say it and I wasn't making a point, it was quite genuine bafflement. I hate fruit, all of it, but whenever that comes up in conversation I get people pulling incredulous faces at me and saying, 'But what about strawberries/bananas/apples/melon/bla bla, surely you must like those? Don't you eat fruit salad? Oh, I love fruit, me. Don't know how you can't like fruit.' It's incrdibly tedious but has lead me to have a firm belief that everyone in the whole wide bloody world loves the stuff except me. No one has ever expressed amazement that DS loves it, just that I don't.

In schools primary children get raw carrots, tomatoes and sugar snap beans as their morning snack, as well as fruit - so reckon many children are used to having those as snacks just as much as an apple or a banana.

My dd lovity loves fruit. All fruit, from sweet right through to sour and beyond. I think that her GPs do find this rather amazing - they feed her HUGE amounts of fruit, and I get the feeling that this is because they find it impressive to see her eat it. She gets so much that I kind of try to compensate when she's with me and keep the fruit levels lower.

I remember loving apples as a child, but I've lost the habit. There are easier things to eat, I suppose. Maybe people are amazed because they wouldn't choose the fruit?

Oh, the whole lot f grandparents, great grandparents, childless aunties etc just stuff the kds with fruit. Apparently it doesn't count as snacking js before tea because it is healthy, and I am making it up that they get bad bellies

Tyranno
I see your point, thanks for explaining :) it just struck me as odd, that's all!