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Weird Food ... what unusual things do your kids like to eat?

92 replies

rabbleraiser · 28/04/2007 16:58

My ds (2.5) loves mussels. When he was 22 months, we went on holiday to Holland and ordered a huge bucket of them. He must have eaten half of them without pausing for breath.

Now he has them every weekend as a treat. It's the only food he gets truly absorbed in.

I like the idea of wide-ranging tastes in food. I don't want to go down the pasta route all week (hardly ever do anyway), but do anyone else's kids like unusual stuff that I could add to his repertoire?

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controlfreaky2 · 28/04/2007 23:04

there is no refuting the salt pointy

gess · 28/04/2007 23:06

flour (gluten free- yum) and washing powder (not so yum)

gess · 28/04/2007 23:06

oh that was ds1, ds3 (aged 2) likes smoked salmon and olives.

saadia · 28/04/2007 23:07

Ds1 goes through phases of loving walnuts (not sure that's weird though).

pointydog · 28/04/2007 23:08

obviously not, freaky.

You know, I love it when you get ignored on mn. A total blanket of calm.

gess · 28/04/2007 23:10

controlfreaky- yep noticed that for ds3 it is salt that he likes (i never cook wth the stuff). He also likes bacon.

Brangelina · 28/04/2007 23:21

DD loves olives (to the extent that if I want her to eat something she's not keen on I just add a handful of chopped olives),
curries of any sort (even with a touch of chilli),
hummus,
tahini straight out of the jar,
pumpkin seeds,
swiss chard
mushrooms in any form - raw, cooked and preserved in oil - and of any type, even those chiodini ones that I find disturbing because they squeak when you eat them.

Jenkeywoo · 28/04/2007 23:21

DD1 (2.6) is obsessed with seeing 'fishy-man' at the market and eats everything we bring back - especially squid, prawns and baby octopus. she also loves knowing which animal she is eating and recently enjoyed some 'mama kanga and little roo' steak. DD2 who is 13 months seems to be going the same way - she has enjoyed squid and octopus this week and it's quite a sight seeing a wee girl with tentacles hanging out her mouth! they also both love pork tongue and faggots, oh and wild rabbit too. I guess we eat a fairly exotic diet in our house.

mumfor1standfinaltime · 28/04/2007 23:23

Ds (2) loves to eat those dry oat cakes with nothing on them. He calls them biscuits and he will eat 3 or 4 at a time. To me they taste like cardboard! Better than chocolate biscuits I suppose.

collision · 28/04/2007 23:27

Ds1 LOVES LOVES LOVES cows tongue!!

We ate it in Italy with DHs family and he loved it. I could only eat a minute amount as I wanted to gag but it tasted like frankfurter sausage but I couldnt eat much.

To get ds to eat chicken we tell him it is cows tongue !

TheDuchessOfNorksBride · 28/04/2007 23:56

Waaay too much salt going on here.

Collision - cows tongue is highly unusual! You must be very proud

DaphneHarvey · 29/04/2007 00:06

DS (3.6) loves celery. No one else in the world loves celery, do they? He also has a whole raw carrot and an apple, every single day of the year.

DD (6) loves salami.

They both adore olives, black and green.

One of the very few foods I truly cannot stomach, even to think of it makes me go a bit shaky, is cucumber. Both DCs LOVE it. They'd have it every meal if they could. When I slice it up for them, I have to do it at arm's length.

Can't get either of them to eat an egg in any form, though. Sigh.

pastalady · 29/04/2007 00:07

My 2 year old LOVES smoked, peppered mackeral fillets - which really suprised me because that is such a strong, pungent taste for a toddler. Lot's of Omega oil though so it-s all good!

AlwaysWatchingCastawayAt2am · 29/04/2007 00:08

ds (who won't eat anything that he suspects may be healthy) loves loves loves the marinated anchovies that you get with tapas and in waitrose...

Anoush · 29/04/2007 00:08

My DS loves tomato (hes 10months), which probably wont sound weird to you but i have a phobia/severe hatred of them!!

It makes mr sick just cutting them up, but i want him to be healthy so..

(it has been a problem of mine since i was weaned, any bits of tomato i used to spit up!)

elfinblast · 29/04/2007 00:19

MiddleBlast (5) will eat anything.
She loves olives, and demands I buy courgettes and peppers.

DaphneHarvey....I hate cucumber too. The smell makes me gip, which is unfortunate as the kids always want tons of the foul fruit with their lunches. [yukky emoticon]

ghosty · 29/04/2007 00:37

My DS (7) loves all kinds of food - he is phenomenal and we are always amazed - he can not stand 'Kid's Menus' at restaurants, always wants the grown up menus.
We took my parents out for lunch for my Dad's birthday to a seafood restaurant. DS shared a seafood platter with DH and my Dad - mussels, oysters, clams, giant prawns, whole crap, the works .... astonishing.

DD, however, lives on carrot sticks and sausages.

Anoush · 29/04/2007 00:45

whole crap!! sounds yummy!

ghosty · 29/04/2007 00:49

What a typo ... ROFL

Obviously, being a seafood platter, it was whole crab

Mind you, it may as well be whole crap ... I am not a big fan of shell fish

essbeebonkers · 29/04/2007 01:15

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climbingwalls · 29/04/2007 08:03

Why do so many of you think kids liking salami, peperroni and other processed meats unusual???

Of course they are going to like processed salty fatty crap.

And olives, what's unusualy about them? I don't know any kids who don't like them.

Twinmummyx2 · 29/04/2007 08:08

Mine like uncooked hard spaghetti.....i don't allow it..(never enough for spag bol left ..but it is easily sneakable and hideable!

My 14 year old daughter is weird in the way that she hates chocolate ..very odd!..lol

climbingwalls · 29/04/2007 08:52

lol twinmummyx2, that is odd! Maybe she'll outgrow it?

throckenholt · 29/04/2007 08:57

mine like uncooked pasta too - I tried to do the pasta jar thing with them - but they kept eating it .