My son is 2 years old and loves gherkins

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but hates cheesy pasta bake. WTF....? is there anything that your child eats that is totally random...?

My 2yo loves olives but also will not touch pasta. It is weird.

My 3yo and my 20mo will nick the jif lemon squeezie bottle to glug from and suck the vinaigrette from salad leaves. It's a myth that young kids don't like strong flavours.

Dd is 20 months and loves gherkins too! She also loves pickled onions (big juicy ones only, turns her nose up at the little sweet silver skins) and sauerkraut. That's my love of pickles passed on I think.

My 20mo DD likes steamed courgettes a lot. Today she ate almost her own body weight in courgettes. She will not, however, eat chips. Hates them. Random.

DS1 has always had a thing for pickled beetroot (very important to warn the babysitting grandparents if he's been eating it, or you get panicked calls about blood in urine). He's pretty certain that fizzy drinks are going to kill him and looks at you with horror if you suggest he has a sip of your sprite.

DS2 will happily eat a satsuma, then start munching on the skin, but nary a smear of banana can get past his tightly clamped shut lips.

Ds, 2.3, adores pickled beetroot. He absolutely refuses to lick the bowl or spoon when I bake brownies. Strange child.

Kidneys

When my son was tiddly widdly he hated carrots and pasta (which his best friend lived on) but he loved olives, spinach, plain yoghurt and chickpeas....I'm not sure there is rhyme or reason to what we all like.

Olives and taramasalata. Hates scrambled egg though.

I might add that he used to loathe all eggs in all forms but now he adores them. You have to keep trying.

DTs love cockles, vinegar, olives, pickled onion, pickles, gherkins. Anything salty / strong.

They don't like pesto at all. Which is a pain, pesto pasta has to be one of the easiest teas around.

As a young child I used to peel and eat raw garlic cloves. I thought it was delicious!

Both of mine will sit and eat prawns by the bowl full. They had prawn risotto for tea and loved it.

Dd aged 3 loves pickled beetroot and pickled red cabbage. Ds aged 9 months eats everything I'm actually on a mission to find a food hr doesn't like!

My DS (4) and dd1(21mo) both love wasabi peas. Apparently they tickle their noses!

Dd2 who's huts turned 3, loves a bit of lemon

Dd1 used to love olives. She'd put the rings on her gingers and eat them. She shine off them, but I'm working on it.

Oh, and dd1 loves calamari with alioli dip.

Limes and lemons! Not sure how bc they r so sour!

last night I cooked frankfurter and pea pasta again with tomato sauce blended with roasted peppers so it was nice and sweet. 3 yr old DD1 will not eat and much pefers steamed fish and broccoli - what!?! utterly bonkers!