Advice please from dedicated spicy food eaters..................................

[Acinonyx]

We eat a lot of spicy food - mainly curries. This has led to dd not eating the same food as us (me especially) as we have it pretty spicy indeed (me especially). I occaisionally tried her with a touch of chilli and she wasn't keen. But I am so used to it - I can't taste it until it's pretty strong.

Some South Asian friends did tell me that their kids were on full strength by 3. DD is now 2.5, and I fear she will never be able to eat the same food and I will have to eat a lot of bland dinners if we all want to eat together.

Anyone else successfully introduced chilli into thier child's diet? If so how, and at what age?

I hope it's genetic - doesn't seem to be so far though. DD has a VERY sweet tooth and I don't at all - that's her father's genes though I think.

My bfather and family are all chilli fiends - but they are Pakistani so who knows. But I grew up on bland food and always hated it. So who knows.

I'll make you a nice dalh instead. (So hungry - and it's HOURS to dinnertime...)

I thought I was the only one to carry a bottle of chilli sauce in my handbag! Yep, DH and I put chillis in everything, tuna sandwiches, salads, jacket potatoes etc etc.

And i we also get chilli cravings if we've had non-spicy food for a day or two!

I personally am not trying to force my DD to eat spicy food (am sure none of you are trying to force your DC's either but hope you know what i mean), I just make our normal food and let her eat what she likes. Am sure with time she will develop a tolerance to spicy food and we'll all be eating the same meals. DS at 20 months i think is far too young to have anything hot although i do make him spicy dahl and rice which he loves. (i put in all the normal spices but just leave out the chillis powder).

ds won't eat chilli but will eat v.v.spicy fried chicken with dp??? its to spicy for me andhes only just 2

I just wander what Asian families do. Are village mums in India cooking separate bland meals for their toddlers? I tried asking my bsis about this but never got a good answer -she's in the US now and her boys prefer pizza etc. I must email my SIL and see what she's done.

I feel guilty for continuing to have different food to dd a lot of the time - as though I were undermining our family life by not tolerating more collective bland meals.

wonder, even

i'm making a curry for myself for tea.

a madras, of course.

I could eat my own fingers right now. I'm so hungry (tries to focus on resolution to lose a few pounds). Especially with a little lime pickle. And a nice chianti.

Would it be OT to put a drop of The Sauce in a cup of tea...

Well (insert lip-smacking & finger -licking), that was a dam fine curry if I say so myself. So good, I finished dh's as well (hmmmm, this NY resolution to lose a few pounds is not going well...).

My DS would not eat anything spicey but DD and DB will and do. I did give DS1 spicey food as a baby but he does not like anythign like that now. DD and DB eat what we are eating and I just put a portion aside for them and add more spice to ours if we want it fairly hot.

Dh and I loves our curries and spicy foods. Birdseye chillis are a staple ingredient in our cooking and we don't do wussy thing like de-seed them.

Dd won't go near spicy food. But then again, she doesn't go near much food at home, spicy or not. Fussy eater. But that is a different story ...