The plain white carbohydrates club - whinge about your fussy eater here!

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So DD has just reached the stage where she is able to make excuses. 'It's got green bits on the outside'. I like mushrooms when they are in filled pasta, but not when I can see them'. She is driving Dh and I crazy. It's been over 2yrs now since the fussiness started, and still we stand our ground! No alternatives, praise for trying something new, no food as reward or punishment, no big fuss at dinner table. We hope she'll see sense eventually.

When will it start to work though?!!

Join me in a whinge if you are in the same boat!

DD (9) likes very bland food. Nothing with the slightest bit of spice taste. One week certain foods will be eaten, the next week I make it and she suddenly doesn't like it anymore. Another meal scrapped off the list. It's a nightmare to feed her tbh.

I've got a bit of bother in this respect but 2 DC who are fussy about different things. Makes for a lot of fun mealtimes I can tell you - possibly not doing as well as you with the not making a big deal over it. It's when they refuse to eat something they said they liked last week that it really gets to me!! List of things one likes that the other doesn't features potatoes, pesto, shepherds pie, cauliflower, anything other than 'regular' broccoli, rice, risotto, butternut squash, lamb, various ways of cooking chicken, salmon, fishcakes.... one has even started making a fuss about carrots which he's eaten practically every day since he was weaned!!

Looks like they'll be getting a lot of fish fingers, sausages and spag bol then as it's all they will agree on..will watch this thread with interest to see if anyone can tell me when they will start eating what the rest of us eat (I constantly give them different things and I know it could be worse and they could only be eating jam sandwiches but it's so frustrating when they point blank refuse to put tasty nutritious food in their mouths!)

Thats my 16 year old nephew that is... He only likes beige food, and has been like this since he was 1. It's a PITA

Ok, you get gold membership of the club. DD is only 4. In for the long haul then...

We've been members of this club. NOw, at 11, my daughter will also eat Lloyd Grossman tomato pasta sauce, lettuce, peas, sweetcorn and carrots, grapes, apples and pears. But for years she'd only eat white or yellow food.

So it does get better. Eventually.

DS1 is nearly 4 and until recently survived on cereals, bread, most fruits, jam (blame DH for that), organix crisps, ryvita, raisins, crackers with soft cheese. He ate lots during weaning, but even then he was always fussy about certain foods (such as cheese). Sometimes he goes off the things he used to love too - which drives me up the wall. Gradually everything has gone off the menu.

DS2 and DD1 (twins age 2) will eat most things happily.

Have recently found a potential way forward with DS1 as he is completely into cooking and has tried lots of the things he has cooked. So far he likes a very small portion of Spag Bol, Chilli Con Carne Sauce & roast potatoes. He made pumpkin soup this afternoon (I nearly fell over when he asked for this) but he only ate one teaspoon! At least he tried it...a real milestone.

Six months ago I was ready to do it the hard way and say eat that or nothing else. But I am so glad I went the cooking together route first.

Fingers crossed we will continue to make some progress.

ds (9) will not eat rice or pasta or potatoes. not even chips. He gets very upset in food is in a sauce or mixed up.
He likes plain cooked meat or fish, and vegetables. With bread.
He has recently discovered reggae reggae sauce, which is unexpected - and gives me hope that he will improve one day....

Ah, it's nice to know we're not alone!
DD tried spring onions today, in 'savoury bites' from 'I can cook'. She left one because 'it was sticking out and not hiding'.
Dinner tonight though was a lovely sausage and bean casserole, baked potatoes and peas. She ate the potato and one pea!
Cooking will be the way forward for her too I think as she's always been very into baking.

My DSD has been a hardcore beige eater ever since I've known her, she's now 15 and is better, but still not great. But in the last few years has started eating tomato sauce (on pasta) and chicken in forms other than covered in breadcrumbs. But not much fruit and very little veg really, a few peas mostly. Saying that, she likes smoothies, fruit bars and will eat an apple - as long as it is peeled and cut into very tiny pieces!
She's also pretty healthy and hardly ever is ill, she is petite though, just like her Mum.

A vote from me for 'I can cook' too. I know there is a big divide over who likes Katie, but she has got our kids completely into cooking and trying more foods. They all have aprons now and love to join in. (Talk about tied to the kitchen sink though, my whole life seems to be about food and mealtimes - roll on summer, salads, picnics, etc.)

We're making easy peasy pizza today! DS1 will eat the grapes and am hoping the other two will hoover up the rest. Maybe DS1 will have a little taste of the pizza base...

I dream of the day when I finally discover 7 evening meals that we all like and I only have to cook one thing each day. We all live in hope! Glad to know we are all in the same boat though.

We made easy peasy pizza last week and it was hoovered up!
Grapes on pizza worse than pineapple I thought, but she ate them and it meant she tried a new taste combination.
Like the prog, but hate the songs!

DD just ate half a plate of spag bol. Very pleased.

My brother is 17 and still will only eat processed meat. He doesn't like carrots, or any fruit other than bananas and granny smith apples. Years of persistance on my mum's part has gotten him to eat most other things (but not mushrooms if he can detect them at all), but you still have to give him something else if you want a joint of meat, or even a bit of chicken breast.

My mum's taken to putting chicken breasts in the blender to cut them up very fine and put them into pasta sauces, which is a bit better, but other than that he lives on burgers, sausages and fish in terms of meat. Oh, and tinned meatballs. (urgh, I can't stand those) He might be getting a bit better now he's at college as part of his course is a catering thing, but last I heard he was as fussy as ever.

DD (9) eats pasta but won't do rice. She'll eat roast potatoes if I nag, but likes lots of salt with them(which puts me off giving them to her) she'll eat McDonalds happy meals but only really likes the fries.

She won't eat anything in sauce, hates food that's 'mixed' in any way and keeps knocking things off her 'will eat' list.

She drives me nuts, but friends mums drive me even more nuts commenting on the lack of variety in her diet and offering suggestions on how I can sort out the problem. Of course I would never have thought of letting her choose her meals, or cook with us, or offer nothing else until she ate what I'd cooked for her!

My biggest worry is that she doesn't enjoy food at all and she's ludicrously pale. On the up side, she could take a great part in any vampire movie and she's fit as a flea & bright as a button

I have 2 fussy eaters. DD, who at 11 is showing signs of growing out of it, and DH who I think is past redemption.

Needless to say, their fussinesses give rise to two only slightly intersecting sets of healthy foods (unhealthy ones, naturally, are all considered edible )