Giving a toddler spicy food

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Would you think it unreasonable to let an 18 month old try some chicken and bit of sauce from a spicy curry (not a full plate of it but a taster).

YANBU it's fine

YABU it's cruel

It's fine. Some babies love spicy food.

I’m calling social services now 🙄
c’mon op you’re hardly going to force feed them a bowl of vindaloo are you?

I can’t see an issue. They will soon let you know if they don’t like it

No, my toddler has spent months eating spicy curry whenever weve been to an Indian restaurant. Last week she decided she no longer likes spice 😭

Fine, my son loves pakora and onion bjajis

If the toddler wants to eat it no problem, if they don't then don't force it! What's the issue? I've offered my daughter almost anything I'm eating to try, most of I she doesn't want it so she gives it back or leaves it.

No.
Children across the world don’t live on nuggets and plain pasta.

Why wouldn't it be okay? They'll either eat it or they won't.

Okay thank you!

I'm the curry feeder btw! 🤣 DH thinks I was mean letting our toddler try some spicy curry tonight (it was quite hot but not a vindaloo!), he looked a bit surprised, went a bit red and then moved onto something else in his plate, no harm done imo.

I like letting him try things and I personally don't think any flavour should be out of bounds. I've let him try lemon and other things like that. I don't think it's cruel or mean personally. If he doesn't like it, he can choose to not have any more and he has water available to wash the taste away if he wants.

Of course it’s fine

Just to add, DH not mad or anything. Just made a comment that it was a bit mean.

It's fine. It's better for their palet to explore new flavours.
If you want to cool it stiring in a bit of natural yogurt you can.

My kid is one of those ones who loves to eat lemons but then so do I so 🤷‍♀️

My in laws were aghast when I let my DS have a jalapeño of my slice of pizza when he was about 18 months. He loved it!

DH and I both eat a lot of spicy food, DS has been tasting since weaning (home cooked stuff not takeaways etc), he's now 3.5 and likes a bit of a kick to his food. SIL jokes that he eats spicier food than she does (it's true but I've also heard her say a tikka masala is too spicy..). He says he likes it when his food tickles his tongue 😁. I had my first taste of a spicy curry at about 18 months, I was putting my dad for dinner if his dinner (mum's infamous lamb curry, same heat level as Madras roughly). In the end he gave me a taste, after much protest from my mum, thinking it would make me have him alone to eat his own food, I loved it and was not interested in my own plain dinner after that!
Nothing wrong with it at all. It's good for children to have variety from a young age.

My kid is one of those ones who loves to eat lemons but then so do I so

DS does too! He doesn't have them often but when he does have a slice he eats the whole thing!

We really messed up by being precious with our first born. He only eats things that come breadcrumbed.

Now Annabel Karmelling two babies with as much dal and coconut based curry as we can get into them. They seem much happier.

We used to go to a lovely Thai place when DS1 was little. One day we ordered prawn crackers and he dug in - he must have been about 18 months old. He went for the sweet chilli sauce and we were like nooo, you won't like it. Oh aye? He polished the lot off. Still loves anything spicy aged 15.

DS2, on the other hand...

What do you think babies in most of Asia eat?

DS1 loved spicy food from when he was weaned. He always wanted to try a bit of mine and one time it was quite spicy but he was insistent and completely hooked after that.

In India, babies tend to be weaned on plain foods: bread, rice, yoghurt, plain veg and perhaps a very mild curry. They build up to spicier food over time.

No problem at all. If they don't like it they won't eat very much, And if they do like it you have another dish in your repertoire for them.

DD is a chilli and garlic fiend. If they don't like something they spit it out or cry. DD hates sweet barbeque flavours, she cried when DH tried her with pulled style veggie thing.

My kids had spicy food from when they started weaning at 6 months.

A toddler is fine.

Ds ate lots of curry's etc at that age.