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Olive loving babies

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thehappyprince · 14/11/2008 15:38

I've come across a couple of toddlers who seem to adore olives - very strange, as loads of adults don't. Then had one of my own (baby, not olive) and he loves them too, has eaten them from 9 months though I wouldn't say he's a particularly good eater. Anyone found similar? Maybe they're so salt deprived they have to get their salt satisfaction from olives...(which obviously don't count as salty and unhealthy as they're such a middle class poncy snack )

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MrsBadger · 14/11/2008 15:40

dd not a fan of olives but loves taramasalata - wonder if it's the salt in that too?

sighkotika · 14/11/2008 15:41

DS loves olives too, which gets him many strange looks... especially from DH who hates them!

Woooozle100 · 14/11/2008 15:42

We went for tapas and our dd who was 2 at the time demolished everything that was there. When all that was left was olives, Dh joked that would be her cue to stop eating - but she was rabid for them!

EyeballsintheSky · 14/11/2008 15:42

My 10mo DD munched her way through my mum's boiled brussels sprouts yesterday...but won't eat my homemade cake. Strange child

oopsacoconut · 14/11/2008 15:59

One little boy I looked after loved garlic stuffed olives. when he first started taking the garlic out the middle we thought he didn't want it but he was really saving the best bit for last. He would eat all the green olives (we limited him to 10 a day or whoa what nappies we got!)then sit and munch his way through the raw garlic cloves. He still loves them now and often goes to school with vampire chasing garlic breath.

PtolemysMummy · 14/11/2008 16:02

My one year old loves olives, particularly black olives. And he's partial to the odd anchovy stuffed greenie as a pre-dinner nibble.

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WhereTheWildThingsWere · 14/11/2008 16:06

My ds 4 has eaten olives since 10 months or so, loves them, used to make me smile when he was tiny and would have his own bowl full at pizza express.

WhirlingStirling · 14/11/2008 16:12

All 3 of mine love olives and anchovies - I think they do it just to annoy me as I love them and they try to eat them all before I get any!!

poisondwarf · 14/11/2008 16:12

Black olives were one of DS's main weaning foods from 6 months (we did BLW) and they would pretty much feature at every meal, but we stopped giving them to him at some point cos I was having to polish off too many of them myself and got a bit fed up (DP's not a fan), and the next time we tried them on DS he didn't want to know. That was a while back though - not sure if he would like them now or not.

largeginandtonic · 14/11/2008 16:13

Mine has been scoffing olives for months (he is 18mths) he watches most of the other children eat them so is probably just copying and assuming they are normal child food!

imnotmamagbutshelovesme · 14/11/2008 16:14

My boys love olives too.

stardazzle · 14/11/2008 16:14

both my dd's love olives and tapas is high on their list of fav meals out, i think they'd think it was amazing if they could get a macdonalds happy meal toy but with tapas!

TheProvincialLady · 14/11/2008 16:16

Many of the toddlers I know love olives including DS - in fact until recently the only way I could get him to eat tomato sauce (pasta type, not ketchup!) was to fill it with olives.

I think it is because they have been offered olives as normal food, not as something exotic and potentially wierd as I was in the early 1980s when they weren't widely eaten in my neck of the woods.

llareggub · 14/11/2008 16:19

Mine did for a while but appears to be going through a fussy stage.

avaTsar · 14/11/2008 16:23

All of mine love olives stuffed with most things. I love them too. Dh is the only olive hater in the house.

I am never sure if they are a good or bad thing to be eating. Too salty maybe? Oh well none of us could give them up anyway!

Olives, cheeses, bread, humous, chorizio sausage, glass of wine (for me!) Heaven!

Thankyouandgoodnight · 14/11/2008 22:10

Yes mine too - I think they get a taste for them in the womb and then in breast milk - wonder if there are any children who love em but who's mother hates them....

Twiga · 14/11/2008 22:17

Our two are fans as well althugh ds really just getting into it. Dd is another lover of the garlic stuffed variety and thinks it's a real treat to choose from the deli counter when we're shopping - only ones rejected so far are lemon stuffed which I love but everyone else in house refers to as Mummy's yuky ones!

teafortwo · 14/11/2008 22:19

yes yes yes - my dd loves olives too. It really panics people in restaurants - I have to say "Don't worry - she understands about the stone... she has been eating olives for ages!!!" Then I get the ooooh you bad bad Mummy look!

RiojaLover75 · 14/11/2008 22:20

ava, my idea of heaven. Carpet picnic with all those plus a nice Rioja.

Aitch · 14/11/2008 22:23

yup, dd goes mad for olives, esp when served with a ocktail stick [la-di-dah]

PortAndLemon · 14/11/2008 22:24

DS loves olives. Actually his first one I don't think he liked much but persevered because he was copying me and DH, but within a few he was hooked.

ingles2 · 14/11/2008 22:27

ds2 has always loved olives, anchovies, any antipasti, chorizo, salami,gran padano/parmesan cheese.
me too.

Aitch · 14/11/2008 22:33

dd as well, ingles. it MUST be about salt deprivation. and all that good stuff... poor bastards and their wee carrot batons.

MERLYPUSS · 14/11/2008 22:41

Not tried them on my two as yet TBH. They love hummous with olives and roasted pepper one so I'll give it a go.
My Nephew was a reflux baby. We went out for a family meal and he (10 mths at time) ate all the olives, breadsticks and after eights. Wehn we got home he was having a cuddle with mum and puked with such force that he filled the pocket of her top. She had to strip to her underwear on a piece of newspaper in the living room (much to my dad's shock).