Comments on CATHARSIS: Learning From My Picky Eater

I did try dinuguan once, and I just could not stom...

2011-11-17T23:47:17.807-06:00

I did try dinuguan once, and I just could not stomach it (no pun intended). It just did not taste good to me. In fact, it tasted bad. That was the first and last time I had dinuguan. As for balut, the very idea turned me off, and I did not have the courage to try it. However, I will say that last year, in a Chinese restaurant in Metro Manila, I ate frogs legs and fish lips for the first time. The fish lips were OK. The frogs legs were really good (tasted a little bit like chicken to me).

Mike B: Awww too bad!!...no 'chocolate meat&#...

2011-11-16T16:03:11.973-06:00

Mike B: Awww too bad!!...no 'chocolate meat' (or Dinuguan, as we call it)??!! Hahahaha....Oh and don't worry. I don't eat balut too...Well actually I do but not the entire thing....can't bear to eat the 'embryo'....eeeekkk!

My grandson (now 8) was a very picky eater when he...

2011-11-16T11:47:44.241-06:00

My grandson (now 8) was a very picky eater when he was much younger. He would only want to eat a few different foods and nothing else. Eventually, my wife and I would (when we baby sat him) offer him food that we knew he liked. It's many years ago, but as best I can recall, for example, we gave him small pieces of TURKEY in his rice (he loved CHICKEN and rice), and told him it was chicken. He liked it. We would occasionally put little pieces of carrot in his rice and he liked that, too. We had him try broccoli many times, and eventually he came to like it. So it was not always macaroni and cheese & chicken and rice & either milk or water. I cannot pinpoint when the change occurred, but he is much more willing now to try different foods -- not every food we offer him (we still baby sit him about once every week or two), but at least sometimes he will try something different. Me, I will eat anything -- except chocolate meat and balut! LOL.

Like the others I too am very familiar with this p...

2011-11-14T14:16:39.799-06:00

Like the others I too am very familiar with this phenomenon. My girls were great eaters when they were young and would eat almost anything. As they got older they changed eating a smaller and smaller variety of foods.
I certainly agree with your conclusions. Generally, change is all around us and the challenge for us is how we adapt as we are powerless to stop the change.

It's so funny because one of my sons is just l...

2011-11-02T18:52:06.641-05:00

It's so funny because one of my sons is just like me, he will love something one day and the next day will never eat it again. But it is my first child that drove me crazy with his picky eating ways. I got the best advice from our first peditrician who told me it was my job to put out three balanced meals and his job to eat them or not. That always made me feel better about allowing him to choose. It really is such a personal thing, that I do want to stay out of it as much as possible. It does however still make my day when he eats something that may have possibly touched a vegetable on a plate, which is about as close to a veggie that he has come since he was a baby!! Thanks for another great piece!!

True, good point Barbara! Thanks for that :-)

2011-10-25T14:01:13.405-05:00

True, good point Barbara! Thanks for that :-)

Wow, I suddenly feel so grateful and think I don&#...

2011-10-25T14:00:20.372-05:00

Wow, I suddenly feel so grateful and think I don't have any right to complain about Noah, hehehe...Thanks Lalia!

My niece (on hubby's side) is 11 years old and...

2011-10-23T06:59:30.511-05:00

My niece (on hubby's side) is 11 years old and pretty much eats nothing but salty snacks, corn, cookies and the obligatory chicken nuggets. At a family function recently, another sister in law tried to get niece to eat some fruit salsa she had made. Niece's mother answered for her saying, " a piece of fruit has never passed her lips". Hubby and I were floored! How can she have never eaten fruit at 11 years old! That is taking picky to new heights.

I have given up understanding what my little ones ...

2011-10-22T07:23:15.962-05:00

I have given up understanding what my little ones like. One week they have cheese, the other they don't like it anymore. It just keeps changing. I have had to learn not to worry and to go with the flow!

I wish my kids would learn that what I feed them i...

2011-10-21T04:28:18.918-05:00

I wish my kids would learn that what I feed them is good for them and that they do like it and that I'm the mommy so I'm the one in control. Except of course these little people have minds of their own....dang it!

That is interesting that despite everything you ha...

2011-10-21T00:07:11.130-05:00

That is interesting that despite everything you have done, he is suddenly a picky eater. Great analogy about life and relationships though.

:-) Good perspective though!

2011-10-20T16:30:15.606-05:00

:-) Good perspective though!

Joy, this could be my daughter! At 2 she would eat...

2011-10-20T04:07:54.425-05:00

Joy, this could be my daughter! At 2 she would eat anything, at 4 practically nothing would appeal to her palate. Now a gorgeous 24 she is back to phase 1 (with a biological conscience though). There is hope yet!
And I remember well that feeling of it being inconvenient for me.
But without different palates, minds and opinions our world would be poorer! Long live the difference!
Thanks for sharing, Barbara

I am VERY familiar with this phenomenon. When they...

2011-10-19T22:23:01.686-05:00

I am VERY familiar with this phenomenon. When they get older they will act like you're crazy when you put in front of them something that up until an hour ago was their favorite dish in the whole entire world. When you point this out to them, they will deny with indignation that they have NEVER in their life liked grilled cheese or egg sald or whatever it is. It happens to me all the time, and they act like I'M the one who has lost her mind? Ha! :-) ~ Lala ~

The preferences of both my daughters changed as th...

2011-10-19T17:45:53.609-05:00

The preferences of both my daughters changed as the got older too. Then - finally - all the pickiness went away, and today I'm much pickier than they are.