Do fussy eating kids improve with age?

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So, do fussy eating kids become more adventurous in their eating habits and if so are there any triggers?

I only have one darling DS, does having more kids around help?

I didn't!

Some do, some don't. I have a 16 year old nephew who still only eats beige food

God yes ds1 existed solely on pizza and fish fingers until he was about 4.
Tonight he ate fresh haddock and asparagus

However ds2 is like a human dustbin and eats everything in sight

One of mine has so far. DS was very fussy - no sauces, only certain kinds of cheese/bread/rice, plain cooked vegetables only, only one kind of fromage frais, nothing mixed together, kept going off the limited range of things he would eat, refused school meals, etc etc. I tried the usual bribery/star chart/nothing sweet etc, without effect, so just chilled out and left him to it.

But he is now 12 and eats pretty much everything - favourites are curry (lentils, paneer, anything), moules frites, any kind of fish - we went to a posh pub at the weekend and he had fish soup followed by salmon on a bed of butter beans and various veg - ate it all.

I think the main change was hitting the ravenously hungry pre-teen stage, and going to a secondary school which cooked all meals from scratch on the premises so the food was actually good. But I think they do also get into a more experimental stage in the early teens - lots of them start liking spicy foods and so on at that age that they wouldn't have eaten before.

I am now hoping that DD (8) goes the same way as she is currently just as fussy as her brother once was, if not worse. I'm trying the chilling-out and leaving her to it tactic again.

Oh, and as for whether having more kids around helps - I'm not sure if siblings help - didn't seem to with mine, nor did my eating habits seem to be influential - but seeing same age friends and older kids (cousins or older kids at school) digging in to all the more interesting stuff does seem to help.

dd#1 would eat anything as a baby/toddler. Put in front. She ate it. She is now 10, and for the last couple of years is so fussy. She regularly looks at what we have to eat and says "yuck" and doesn't eat it. Her packed lunch at school (chosen by her in the morning) often comes back untouched.
dd#2 was very fussy as a baby/toddler. She didn't eat anything consistantly, except sweetcorn. She just refused stuff she'd eaten the day before etc. Now she will try anything, and often likes it, and rarely makes a fuss about not eating something even if she's not keep.
Ds will eat anything as long as it's fruit or veg...

Not so far as I'm concerned...
(Oh, I do eat spaghetti now! Does that help?)
:o

My DSD has improved greatly over the years, but still eats a more limited range than many people and I doubt that will change much now.
I have an adult friend whose diet is just terrible! He had actually made as a meal once pasta with instant gravy and thought it was nice. The only fruit he will eat is satsumas and at a push eats carrots and peas, but doesn't like them. He would happily eat only meat and potatoes and beer.

My stepdaughters were fussy eaters when i met them aged 4 and 6 and they still are aged 11 and 13... one of them has improved in that she at least tries things before saying she doesn't like it. The other won't even try and has, if anything, got worse!

DS1 started being less fussy when he started school. He really wanted to be like the grown up kids and have school dinners. He ate shepperds pie for the first time last night and he ate roast chicken the other day. In my experience, they do change but not because of the influence of the parents!! It's peer pressure!