General Chat

Only the middle one was a pain in the proverbial when it came to the majority of vegetables - he was fine with fruit. He'd only eat potatoes either chipped or roasted & raw carrots often pinched while they were being prepared.

He had it in his head that if the vegetable was green, it was mouldy :-0

Oddly, one of his cousins is/was exactly the same. Both now eat more of a balanced diet. That's one advantage of having a catered first year at uni - eat what's been put in front of you or starve!

all my children was good eaters of fruit and veg
i never gave then much of the goody food when they was babies
i nether even gave then burgers or yucky chicken nuggets
i only started to have problems with younger 3 when all the school dinners change to
quick warm up food.
even now when my lot are talking about school dinner my older 3 say there dinners was better than younger 3 had and i remember cook moaning over the change

4 year old grandson he also is a good eater of fruit and veg
cucumber don't even say the word he will ask for it and you have to give him
at least half

i aways say why give a young child junk food like wattis puffs ect
when you can give them food like apple carrot to munch on

justjohn you made me LOL with mushroom grandson says he dont like them but will look for them when i cook him spaghetti bolognese for some reason he gets confused and ask were are the dumplings i always now make share i put extra mushroom in just for him

:-D :-D

barrrrrrrrf :-(

I detest archichokes :-P don't like aubergines much either

and I'll only eat turnip if it's in something like a pasty or a stew.

I remember Sunday lunches with daughter, SiL and three grandsons all of us had to have some of every veg (and there was usually a good selection of at least 5 or 6 veg) so Granddad had to have sprouts, Nana had to have carrot and Mum had to have sweet corn, even if it was one carrot/sprout etc. to date they all eat every veg except second grandson who really really doesn't like parsnips.

Thanks very much, Ann.

I suppose out taste buds must change quite a lot during our lives. Sprouts seemed horrible when I was young, now I quite like them.

My son (29) has never liked mushrooms. That is so inconvenient, as we have to check every packet and ask every chef not to put any mushrooms in their meals. He accidentally ate them once in Germany and asked what those nice pizza flavoured vegetables were :-D ;-)

Nice to see you back John. :-) Congrats on your lovely grandaughter.

I remember mum giving my brother and sister the same veg we had in our dinners when they were babies . She used to introduce small amounts mashed up with potato and gravy at first . Then when they were toddlers if they said they didn't like something she would say just have a bit of it and mash it up with some potato and you won't know it's there. We were never forced to eat things, but I don't remember any food tantrums and we all grew up liking and eating most veg. I think the strong tasting brussels got the mashing with potato for a good few years though, but we would eat some!!

:-D :-D

I wonder if just-call-me-Nige likes brussel sprouts :-S

The news item is true.:-0 The quote from UKIP is made up. ;-)

"Children can learn to eat new vegetables if they are introduced regularly before the age of two, suggests a University of Leeds study.

Even fussy eaters can be encouraged to eat more greens if they are offered them five to 10 times, it found.

The research team gave artichoke puree to 332 children aged between four and 38 months from the UK, France and Denmark.

One in five cleared their plates while 40% learned to like artichoke."

Nigel Farage, the UK Prime Minister said: "We are very pleased to see the success of this important study in Kent and can confirm that artichoke puree will be widely available and free from any Kilroy-Silk local health centre"