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Do Your Kids Like Spicy Food?

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EricScrooge · 11/12/2007 17:16

I have had someone round at weekend who thought i was frankly insane at offering up her child a curry along with ours.

With her (and others) comments i am not so sure now that this is a normal thing.

I just give mine kiddie versions of our meals. If we have a chilli they have a separate less hot version (they adore the tortillas and all the extras), if we have a curry they get a nice creamy korma (same again with the nannas) and they like stir fry as well except they do pick out the veg they don't like out if it.

Surely others out there eat these things to?

It's not all beans and 'Happy Faces' all week is it?

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EricScrooge · 11/12/2007 17:17

'Nannas'?

I would just like to point out we don't eat grandparents for dinner - it's naans.

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MarsyChristmas · 11/12/2007 17:18

Mine love spicy foods but then they do have a Jamaican mum!

Iota · 11/12/2007 17:19

one of mine does, one of mine doesn't

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EricScrooge · 11/12/2007 17:20

Oh Marsy - i wish you were my Mum - that would have been heaven.

My mum's cooking was so boring and bland.

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Kathyate6mincepies · 11/12/2007 17:20

My 2 year old dd loves spicy food. We eat the typical mixed-up British diet of curries, stirfries, pies, pasta etc! Ds (1) is less keen.

CarmenerryChristmas · 11/12/2007 17:20

Perfectly normal to give children slightly spicy food.

choosyfloosy · 11/12/2007 17:22

I always intended that my ds would like spicy food but he treats all food that has any kind of sauce or different colour on it with total paranoia. We have a strong tendency to fall back on roast dinners and rather plain pasta.

ABudafulSightWereHappyTonight · 11/12/2007 17:22

Mine doesn't like it unfortunately - wish he did as it would make life easier.

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EricScrooge · 11/12/2007 17:23

Great. Glad to see i am not alone.

Except with my friends by the look of it.

Seems to be this idea of 'That's for kids and that's for adults' food thing going on which is silly i think.

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YuleLoveHekateAtSolstice · 11/12/2007 17:25

Mine eat proper food too. You're not alone.

MarsyChristmas · 11/12/2007 17:40

Eric... the thought that popped into my mind

biglips · 11/12/2007 17:42

on my dd's 1st birthday...she had her first real dinner...chicken creamy korma with rice and naans bread.....she wolfed it down and ate every bit!

We do eat spicy/chilli foods at least once a week...

ABudafulSightWereHappyTonight · 11/12/2007 22:58

I used to make an Annabel Karmel chicken curry type dish for my DS that I unfortunately made a bit too spicy once and that was it. He will not have anything spicy. We have tried. When we were moving to Budapest first we used to come here for regular weekends and used to go to a Thai restaurant a lot. Would order chicken satay and chicken fried rice for DS. First couple of times he ate it no problem. Then he went off it.

Have tried Chinese. Have tried Indian - likes naan bread - plain only.

Some children just plain don't like it.

Smithy · 11/12/2007 23:06

My boys (5 and 4) love curry, especially peshwari naan and chicken biryani. DS1 is also partial to dhal too. They also love going to Wagamama where they have noodles, chicken and rice with curry sauce!

Will also do a chilli at home, although I have to confess that I don't tend to make it too hot. I leave that to DH to adulterate with jalapenos afterwards!

bahKewcHumbug · 11/12/2007 23:08

at his 2nd birthday DS tucked into onion bhaji's, samosas and pakoras (all spicy but not blow your head off hot) much to the astonishment of the collected adults.

I regularly throw sweet chili sauce into couscous as a carb base for a meal when I'm too lazy to cook anything else so DS is quite used to spicy'ish stuff

bahKewcHumbug · 11/12/2007 23:10

no doubt some children don;t like spicy food in the same way some adults don;t but I suspect plenty would like it but aren't given it.
Anyway you can hardly call a korma spicy can you!

bahKewcHumbug · 11/12/2007 23:11

(you are allowed to post on the main board - you're not confined to Dadsnet you know!)

essanel · 11/12/2007 23:11

dd who is 4 doesnt like spicy food whereas ds 18 mths loves chilli pasta which makes my eyes water!

Brangelina · 11/12/2007 23:14

My DD has always loved spicy food from the day she was weaned - probably something to do with all the curries I ate when bfeeding.

Next time tell your friends that in 80% of the world (including places with fiery cuisines) babies eat exactly what their parents do and there's none of this namby-pamby giving them bland or children's food. My take on it was if it was good enough for babies in India/Thailand/Indonesia/Africa/wherever, it was good enough for mine.

My Sri Lankan nanny told me they start their children on chilli at 7mo yet the population of Sri Lanka seems to be flourishing, so it can't be that bad.

amytheearwaxbanisher · 11/12/2007 23:19

my ds loves spicy food but same as op we unspice his a good deal for him

PrisonerCellBlockAitch · 11/12/2007 23:26

dd feasted on lentil and chicken curry tonight, lots of 'oooh, that's delishus' and eats a pasta arrabiata that burns my mouth. it's great, but not for everyone. my sis always swore that she had to train her tastebuds to tolerate curry adn she was brought up in the same house as me.

unknownrebelbang · 11/12/2007 23:37

DS2 loves spicy food, DS3 likes a milder version. DH often prepares meals for the three of them.

DS1 alas is faddy, just like his mother. .

Ubergeekian · 12/12/2007 10:51

The Boy happily eats snything spicy. Sometimes a surprised look and watering eyes at the first mouthful, but he always comes back for more. He's been like that since he was 9 months. Now that he's 19 months the only stuff he won't eat is bland baby food - he just has what we're having, whatever it is.

What's insane about offering it, anyway? If the child eats it there's no problem and if s/he won't you're not going to do the fois-gras funnel thing, are you?

UnquietDad · 16/12/2007 00:07

DD (7) tried curry for the first time last year at a charity do and enjoyed it. She hasn't had it since, though! Naan bread got the biggest thumbs-up.

Krimble · 16/12/2007 00:09

Mine like slighy milder chicken faitas than me and love a chicken Korma but will try other spicier dishes.

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