Do picky eaters ever get bored?

[PrettyCandles]

I do! (But then I'm not picky and I want variety in my diet.)

They lose their fussiness very quickly when they have to cook, shop and clean up ! I WAS a fussy eater, but not anymore ...

Oh no! Do I have to wait THAT long?!

Fussiness disappears when there is nothing else on offer.

In theory.

Hasn't worked here yet.

I have at least managed to train the eldest not to make a fuss, just to leave what he wont eat. That way the rest of us get to have somevariety.

I don't think they do get bored, they often just enjoy a select number of foods enough to eat them every day, given the choice.
I think that picky eaters mostly 'eat to live' rather than 'live to eat' - so just as one child might not enjoy sport particularly, another might not enjoy food that much. Personally I enjoy watching cooking channels and trying new recipes, as food can be a hobby, but I know plenty of adults who just see eating as fuel.

Ah, that explains DP. He's so freaking fussy it's driving me mental, as we end up having the same meal over and over and over again, and I love cooking and need some excitement in my eating life. However, if I do make him eat something new, then it can work out alright as he finds out he likes it, for example, salmon en croute. I force fed him some a couple of months ago, and now it's one of the three/four things he eats (pasta, salmon with rice, salad).

Ds1 is definitely one of the 'eat to live' brigade.Most of the time he seems to live on air, but when he has one of his rare favourites he'll put away an unfeasible am
ount (for him!).

Yeah I think many children are the 'eat to live' types and it's only as we grow up and learn to associate certain foods with feeling good or special occasions or whatever, that we start to develop a true interest in food for reasons other than nourishment!
I see it as a good thing to enjoy cooking and have an interest in exotic/unusual foods just for pure enjoyment but then at the same time, I know people who all they seem to talk about or think about is FOOD!
When I'm not hungry or have just eaten I don't think about food all that much other than knowing what I'm making for tea etc... so I can see why people with little to no interest in food get put off by having to plan ahead or talk about eating.

Picky eaters are pretty boring to begin with so they can't 'get bored', as such. The prospect of eating something outside of their usual comfort-zone is a source of anxiety rather than pleasure. One picky eater I know is a total pain in the arse to take out for a meal, for example... scouring the menu & tutting at the things she allegedly 'can't eat'. What everyone else regards as enjoyable, she finds incredible stressful. It's bizarre....