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Lilofan

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Goofyernmost

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Nope, I don't think he's destined to become a human garbage disposal. I'm waiting till the day he's old enough to make his own dinners so I don't have to.
I have a grandson that only ate Mac & Cheese, Chicken Fingers and Taco's with just meat and cheese until he was 18 and started noticing girls and decided that if he was going to do any dating he had better expand his culinary tastes. I also have a granddaughter that would eat different things differently. Pancakes, plain no butter, syrup or any other topping, Spaghetti plain, no sauce, no butter, just cooked pasta. Cereal dry only. There were other things as well but to numerous to remember. That lasted until she was around 16 and also decided she needed to expand the old taste buds.

Things have changed, I guess. When I was growing up and when my kids were growing up, they had a choice, eat what was cooked or go without. We were to busy trying to survive to make special meals for anyone. Your choices were only what was placed in front of you, nothing else. I don't remember having more then one problem with that and that was when my oldest decided that she wouldn't eat peas. We had a useless confrontation over it that nobody won! She continued to not eat them until one day, back when we had a small garden out back, I was sitting there eating peas directly out of the pods and she thought that was interesting and tried one. Peas have been her favorite since that day. The only time that I broke that rule for them was when their mother tried to feed them Liver and Onions and that is something that I won't eat. I got in trouble for not backing her on that item, but I couldn't see myself forcing my kids to eat something that I found disgusting. My wife used to eat things that were just odd to me. The one that I did try was cow tongue. I choked it down a couple of times before I just requested that not be included on any future menus. When we had that I wasn't sure if I was licking my lips or my dinner was. I am usually up for anything once except slimy stuff like oysters and snail. I've even tried pigs ears which, not surprisingly is mostly cartilage and rubbery like calamari and rubber bands. Certainly not a culinary delight.
 

John park hopper

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Don't know if it is my generation but with my boys also it was eat what was served or go without and eat all that you take. Remember we had yellow squash for the garden and the middle son kept saying I can't eat it I'll puke. He finally ate it and sure enough it happened. Never made him eat yellow squash again and to this day he won't touch it.
 

ajrwdwgirl

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Don't know if it is my generation but with my boys also it was eat what was served or go without and eat all that you take. Remember we had yellow squash for the garden and the middle son kept saying I can't eat it I'll puke. He finally ate it and sure enough it happened. Never made him eat yellow squash again and to this day he won't touch it.

My mom made me eat pickled beets once and I think I gagged doing it so much I never had to again. I think because I was the youngest I got away with being a little more picky than my sister. We were allowed to not take food but we had to eat what we took, but I got away with picking out the celery and onions from my potato salad and macaroni salads as I didn't and still don't like crunchy stuff in that food. Maybe it helped that my mom and dad liked the celery and onions so I would pick it out and give it to them so then they had more!

Also when my dad was diagnosed with high cholesterol my mom immediately started cutting out our high fat foods, which she should have but we always had milk with our dinner and we switched right away from whole milk to skim milk, there was no using up the whole milk and a gradual shift to the skim. The day of our switch she wouldn't let us leave the table until we drank the whole glass of skim milk, it tasted so gross to us. We eventually got used to it but it was a rough switch at first. :cool:

I think it helped that my mom was a good cook so there wasn't much that we didn't want to eat although I didn't care for her scalloped potatoes with canned tuna, but I still ate it because I wanted my nightly treat.
 

John park hopper

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My mom made me eat pickled beets once and I think I gagged doing it so much I never had to again. I think because I was the youngest I got away with being a little more picky than my sister. We were allowed to not take food but we had to eat what we took, but I got away with picking out the celery and onions from my potato salad and macaroni salads as I didn't and still don't like crunchy stuff in that food. Maybe it helped that my mom and dad liked the celery and onions so I would pick it out and give it to them so then they had more!

Also when my dad was diagnosed with high cholesterol my mom immediately started cutting out our high fat foods, which she should have but we always had milk with our dinner and we switched right away from whole milk to skim milk, there was no using up the whole milk and a gradual shift to the skim. The day of our switch she wouldn't let us leave the table until we drank the whole glass of skim milk, it tasted so gross to us. We eventually got used to it but it was a rough switch at first. :cool:

I think it helped that my mom was a good cook so there wasn't much that we didn't want to eat although I didn't care for her scalloped potatoes with canned tuna, but I still ate it because I wanted my nightly treat.
Whole milk or no milk, have never gotten used to skim milk you were correct it's gross
 

Rista1313

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Adventures in baking with Susan this morning.... I decided I wanted chocolate walnut biscotti... so I started looking up recipes.... found one I liked, mixed it up... and it was a bit dryer than it should have been, but I went with it... got it in the oven... took a shower... was on my way back downstairs and realized.... ummmm I didn't put any sugar in these?!!? UGH! Took them out of the oven... and mixed up the 2nd batch with the sugar this time... they are in the oven now... fingers crossed.

p.s. so I thought.. well they have chocolate chips in them.. maybe I can just do a chocolate drizzle and the first batch will be ok.... I sliced the end off and had a taste... at first I was like... yeah these could be ok... but as I kept chewing... I was like... yeah no... these will not be ok... and in the trash they went!
 

ajrwdwgirl

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Adventures in baking with Susan this morning.... I decided I wanted chocolate walnut biscotti... so I started looking up recipes.... found one I liked, mixed it up... and it was a bit dryer than it should have been, but I went with it... got it in the oven... took a shower... was on my way back downstairs and realized.... ummmm I didn't put any sugar in these?!!? UGH! Took them out of the oven... and mixed up the 2nd batch with the sugar this time... they are in the oven now... fingers crossed.

p.s. so I thought.. well they have chocolate chips in them.. maybe I can just do a chocolate drizzle and the first batch will be ok.... I sliced the end off and had a taste... at first I was like... yeah these could be ok... but as I kept chewing... I was like... yeah no... these will not be ok... and in the trash they went!

chocolate walnut biscotti sounds delicious. I hope your second batch turns out okay.
 

John park hopper

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I grew up on junk food and lucky I take after my mom who was always thin there was not a time I can remember when we didn't have dessert or cookies or chocolate in the house. My poor wife has been battling the weight issue with one diet after another and has found she cannot eat processed carbs. She has been eating nothing but fresh veggies, fruit and various beans (protein), and fish no meat. She has lost 25 lbs (looks great) and has more energy, got to give her credit no way could I live without my junk food.
 

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