Picky eating. It’s one of those poorly-defined, catch-all terms that spans toddlers who subsist solely on potato chips and bottles of formula, to kids whose only sin is to shirk the green vegetable on their dinner plate.
The first rule when you have a picky eater should be: don’t panic!
Most of us were picky eaters to some extent during our toddler years. I distinctly remember disliking avocado (slimy!) and sweet potato as a child, both foods I now love. I refused to eat fatty spreads (butter and margarine) on my sandwiches or toast until my early 20s, and there was a time as a child where I insisted on eating my sliced carrot raw and my peas frozen.
Can you remember any foods that you didn’t like as a child? Are there some foods you still don’t like now? I still can’t stomach any chewy, sinewy or fatty bits in meat to this day.
What many of us don’t realise, as parents,… Read the rest