A message to all parents of fussy eaters...........................................don't give up hope!!!

[cadelaide]

Last night DS ate curry

More important than him eating it (admittedly not much of it, a few mouthfuls perhaps) is the fact that he willingly tried it without a murmur of complaint. DP and I were widening eyes at each other, trying to act blase.

Truly momentous. We're chuffed to bits. He's nearly 9, btw. I'd say his fussiness "peaked" at about 5, when his diet was mainly potatoes, toast and a few other "blond" foods.

Oh, and last week he stuffed a broccoli floret in his mouth in a show-off kind of way

Thanks for sharing this.

And for parents of older fussy eaters, my brother didn't eat spicy food until he was a teenager (despite having one Indian parent and regular exposure as a child).
Loves it now!

Thanks for this, it does give hope that pasta, sausages, toast and ham will one day be off the menu and carrots, apples, pie and normal stuff will pass my DS's lips!!

I really didn't think it would ever happen.

We did eventually follow the conventional advice to "ignore refusals and keep offering", but it's hard to relax about it isn't it? DP will admit that he occasionally expressed his frustration and I was no saint either, poor DS.

We would have bread and butter on the table, sometimes a jacket spud, alongside the meal and gradually over a couple of years his "repertoire" has expanded. In the last few months he has gone way beyond our expectations and it's bloody great.

(Sometimes I wonder whether the human body seeks out particular nutrients when required, but that's another subject!)

thanks cad!!

yes we do mainly yellow foods here too.

did your ds like garlic tho, before this as dd who is just 6 has liked garlic for about a yr.

garlic bread came in about 18m ago

as peter kay says 'its the future'!!!

my friends ds, was the same, and started on broccoli at about 7, which was a major shock.

Well done cadelaide's ds!

My ds is 4 and in the last 2 months has voluntarily tried

chicken
pineapple
cucumber
peas
houmous
egg
wine

Pineapple and houmous were a hit as he now eats them in small quantities.

dd was SUCH a fussy eater when she was younger. Can't remember when it peaked. I weaned her on to things I wanted her to eat by feeding her the stuff she would eat and then changing an ingredient at a time until she was eating more healthy balanced food.
Now she'll eat almost anything.
Antoher trick is to limit all snacks to fruit and give plenty of excercise so that they're starving for their meals.
'Hunger is a great sauce'