What age does the 'actually I don't like vegetables after all" thing start?

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DS (19 months) is such a lovely little eater - eats almost anything you give him, loves all veg (except olives!) and is great at trying new things. Any chance he could stay like this or is it inevitable that one day he'll go "actually, what are these strange green bits in my dinner?" and start fussing?

We do it all properly incidentally - none of that 'come on, eat just eat one more horrid vegetable and then you can have some yummy dessert" stuff... someone give me hope that he could stay a good, healthy eater? (even if his mother, who has just eaten her own considerable bodyweight in crisps, can't!!)

It depends on the individual child I'm afraid, there's no knowing what will happen as he gets older, but good luck!

Yes, there's a chance it could go pear shaped at any point. No point worrying too much. Some kids are good eaters and some aren't. I've got some of each and I've done the same approach with all of them.
You're not a bad parent if you have a fussy eater.

2,bang on with all 3 of mine. 2 came back to them errrr one at 5 still hasn't. Good luck

Thanks everyone! His sister was never a great eater and it would be so lovely to have one that's easy to feed!

so far so good with dd she's 3.

however, you'll find outside influences start to take hold soon. how are your family and PIL about food? MIL does the old, eat and bit more and you can have pudding.

He may stay like this! Mine is 10 and still going strong (mmm, lovely cabbage mummy)
[swank emoticon].

I do get a bit annoyed with some children's books and comics which major on how disgusting veg is, but I don't know if it really makes a difference.

Just keep up a bracing and positive attitude towards veg yourself and he may well be fine!

Good luck!

when they start school IME

My son ate all veg pureed when he was being weaned, but went off it around 14-16 mths - became generally really fussy around then, actually, and was almost phobic about veg between 2-3 yrs old.

Now, at 4, he is fussy but not ridiculously so, and eats a few veg - peas, sweetcorn, mange tout, green beans, sweet potato / potato, butternut squash and tomato-based sauces. I try to add a new veg to the side of his plate every now and then, and although he doesn't always like them, he will try them, which is a breakthrough.

Hopefully yours will always love veg!

About 2.5 with DS (who had been a fantastic eater before that), I think. I remember the first time he pushed something away (something he'd eaten quite happily the previous week) and declared "It's got vegetables in it..."

He is four now and starting to improve again, though (will eat: broccoli, carrots, sprouts, mushrooms (!! we had battles with mushrooms for ages), asparagus, olives (not that olives are vegetables, but in the same line), sweet potatoes, sweetcorn, peas in small quantities; won't eat: most other things). We kept him topped-up with fruit during the limited vegetable period and seem to have avoided scurvy so far...

Bang on 2 for us too.

Broccoli was his favourite food until then, now he won't touch it [grrrr]

He's 2.6 now and shows no sign of coming out the other side yet.... and it's not just veg, he won't touch chocolate either

Mine always have and still do love veg. However at the ages of six and eight, neither of mine eat much meat - so successful was I in persuading them that veg was the way to go I may have turned them vegetarian!! I think some fussiness is inevitable as a way of exerting control when they hit the terrible twos - ime it's best to ignore it and wait for it to pass.

5 or 6 after they've been to school for about a year when what little Johnny (who wouldn't know a green veg when it jumped up and said hello and thinks wholemeal bread is gay ) starts to have more influence over them than we do.

Usually only lasts a year or so.