Are your kids fussy eaters?  

Oh yes, those little buttons called mushrooms. I love them, both my kids hate them. Not only is my son a picky eater, he eats in spurts. Although, he is finally eating a lot of fruit and now he loves to eat a good salad. I think I tricked him when I added a salad to his plate of Cheese & Mac (his favorite food). Funny thing that you've got me thinking about. Ever since he's been eating fruit and a good breakfast he's been doing better in school. It's all good and true.

Dear winterose,

Kids are kids. If they don't want to eat some thing they just refuse and if you compel it just stays in their mind. I have always tried to give one vegetable a day mixed with the food without telling them what it was. Let them try it out.
Once I had made Chowchow vegetables , I chopped them into small pieces like cabbage and made a side dish. If I had told them that it was chow chow they would not have had it. They thought it was cabbage and ate it. They liked it.Likewise raw papaya also I have made my kids eat. Just tease them, make it in the mode in which they like. Do not compel. Just put it on the table. They will taste it. Don't keep watching the vegetable if they are eating it. You'll succeed. Just don't tell them what it is till they finish eating. All the best

Hihi,

I think it is quite inevitable that kids don't like healthy food. Somehow, unhealthy food usually tastes better to most.

It is only when they grow up would they realize the importance of eating healthy.

That's when they will change. Only when they themselves want to change would the impetus be greater.

Other foods? I'm still educating myself on that.

Ohh, well, I don't have kids but I'm their fan. I like kids rolling and crying me fooling them around. Fussy eaters? Yes, so much, they are. If they come to my place on weekends, it's a little good for me. Their parents really can't get over them. They love an irritable one like me playing around with them. What their parents ask them to have for lunch or dinner would not be ever in their interest. what i usually do, is play along and when they have been a little hooked with it, I will try to give some conditions that it will only continue if they eat what was served on the table. haha! I'm quite naughty on them and chuckle at their back when they are agreeing with me.

When my daughter was younger, she would not eat cooked vegetables. She would eat all kinds of raw vegetables though. All she really wanted to eat was chicken nuggets all of the time. she really did not want anything else. She is still a very picky eater but she had lost alot of weight recently that she had gained over the summer. she is down to 135 and looks very nice. I am so happy she can maintain her weight. It makes me want to be a picky eater also but I am always feeding my nerves.

Well Most of my kids have had something they didn't care for but were not really fussy.

I cooked a meal and they ate it.

After all I wasn't running a diner..lol

Today my kids all like just about everything.

xoxoxoxoxxo

My daughter just eats them. She likes just about everything we've given her from the start.

My grand daughter (just like her mom at same age!) is picky and has learned to order her own meal at a resturant and tell the waitress what she does or doesnt' want on a burger or whatever she orders. Not sure if mom told her she had to do that or eat it as is comes in an attempt to get her to eat more things, but she spouts off front and center when the waitress gets there with her personalized order and she is the cutest thing - long blonde hair, bright blue eyes and a smile that melts anyone that looks at her - so the waitress gives her what she askes for! She'll eat things for me that she doesn't for mom or dad (a divorce there so she has 3 places to eat!) and I never have a problem with it. Don't know why that is, but she does it. Granted I am just on the corn, carrots and ketchup so far but we are getting htere! it used to be nothing but hamburger meat, now she'll eat beef, for me - London Broil or rump roast cut in bite size pieces. She wont' eat that for the others! Weired, but ya gotta do what ya gotta do!

My daughter will eat anything and a lot of it! My son on the other hand isn't too fussy, he just doesn't eat a lot of anything. He eats like a bird and I don't see how he gains any weight but he gets full and he's healthy. He loves all veggies which is a very good thing, especially lettuce, carrots and cucumbers.

This made me laugh, he was a very determined boy! I must admit I used to be the same with my eldest who is now 16 and would do very much the same things as you. Mealtimes became battlegrounds with both of us being miserable and moody all because I wanted him to eat things that were considered good for him! Over the years as my other 3 children came along I have learnt to be a little more tactful and considerate and have changed my ways a lot and I do now succeed in getting them to try and eat new and healthy foods. I just ask them very nicely to try it, if they wont, I tell them very nicely to try it, just one bite I say and if you do not like it I promise I will never make it again! This does work with them and everything I have given them, they have tried and true to my word if they do not like it I do not give it them again, well not for a few weeks anyway, but if they do like it, then I add it to the menu!