Sometimes food preferences change over time and sometimes they don't.

Can confirm, i now hate 3 vegetables that i loved as a child but also eat lota of vegetables i used to hate on pretty much a daily basis.

Kids are weird man.

No, I think you always open to more options. What kid eats onion, yet....what meal can you cook without onion?

Yes! Our rule is you have to try it, and if you don't like it it can come back out. But no yucking someone else's yum-- if you don't want it it's not "ewww gross" it's "hmm, not for me!". We also really try to avoid saying "oh no she doesn't like xyz" because it puts the kid and the food in a box. "She is not interested in xyz tonight" is a statement that leaves the door wide open for the kid the next day to try it again and not be defined by hating peas!

Its kind of interesting to see food preferences change over the years. As kids age, their senses dull, more notably the sense of smell, which can drastically change the taste of things. Broccoli, brussels, kale (all variants of the same plant) are very strong tasting, and usually fairly high up on most little kids dislike list, assumedly because because its so strong tasting. Obviously that's not a hard and fast rule, but its an easy generalization.

True. It can take 30 tries before your taste buds can adjust to start liking a new taste. (Acquired taste!). So just keep trying.

3 bite rule here. Often times you need a couple bites to truly taste a food, or it's an acquired taste. Three bites? Likely they'll enjoy it by then.

My policy in general is "try anything twice". Not necessarily back-to-back, because tastes change. I hated ginger for years, gave it another shot and can't get enough. Few things I've tried two or three times that I don't like.

Yep, my mum always got me to do that when I was little. I’m now 16 and still hate tomatoes, but I try them at least once a year to see if my taste has changed at all (hasn’t yet lol). But I’m glad i was always encouraged to try new foods!

I tried this with my stepson and mashed potatoes when he was 6 or so. He gagged so hard that I gagged.

Never again.

Another factor is the variety of veggie. I cannot stand the woody carrots most grocery stores carry but I love the giant CHONKS you can get in Asian markets. Love iceberg lettuce, romaine gives me instant diarrhea. Creamed corn? Gross. Niblets or on the cob? Yea. Long English cucumbers are GODS but those other seedless ones are garbage.

Sometimes it’s the delivery, not the vegetable itself that’s the problem.

I do the one bite thing with my kids as well, i even go so far as to not tell my eldest what something is seasoned or flavored with until she tries it, usually she loves it and then gets a weird look on her face when i tell her (after she asks) what i made it with!

We do the one but thing as well. He eats what we make a lot but if he doesn't like it he can choose another vegetable he likes. He has a bunch that really likes. The one bite combined with teaching him what foods are healthy and what healthy foods do for you has made him excited to eat healthy foods. Currently his favorite lunch is a spinach salad with no sauce (aka dressing). I can't even down that

You should try roasting your veggies instead of steaming them. The difference in flavor and texture is unbelievable. I haven't eaten a steamed veggie in close to ten years and I eat 2-4 different types of vegetables every day. It's really easy to make roasted vegetables even in just a small toaster oven.

I had a compromise with my mum as a kid that I ate the same food as her as long as my veggies weren’t cooked. It worked great and didn’t add any extra prep time for meals so both of us were happy. To this day I have the same meals as my partner just with crunchy veggies vs his steamed/roasted ones.

I guess it worked and went to show I wasn’t fussy about eating things, I just prefer different textures and I think that’s a fair way of raising kids.

Could be they're overcooked. I grew up eating massively overcooked veggies, so it was just normal to me, but when I got married my wife reacted like I was a madman because she can't stand overcooked broccoli or anything else. Overcooked still doesn't really bother me, but they taste much better when they're just perfectly done.

the texture is just rhagfi.

Slight digression: is "rhagfi" a word, an acronym, an onomatopoeia, a typo, or something else?

fuck steamed veggies. My fiance and I got an air fryer and OMG VEGETABLES ARE SOOOOOO MUCH BETTER NOW and I liked most veggies to begin with!

Olive oil, paprika, salt and pepper on your carrots. Pop em in the air fryer (I have no idea what temp or how long. The air fryer is her territory). So fucking good.

For broccoli we do something similar but we also use some crushed red pepper. Sometimes we throw some cheese in there. Pop em in the air fryer and boom, fucking delicious.

Only vegetable I won't eat is cauliflower. So damn tasteless, I can't stand it. No amount of seasoning is enough to make cauliflower taste good if you ask me. She made cauliflower rice once. Must have put half a damn bottle of cayenne on there to make it edible. Maybe it was chili seasoning? Idk, one or the other. It was a lot.

Edit: last night when I got home my fiance tried to make me eat cauliflower. I said no. I know, you can make it good, but I think I'm just scarred.

Steamed carrots are kinda meh for me unless you dice them into small pieces.

If im eating them raw tho i usually just grate them. Or stir fry a bit untill theyre halfway between soft and hard. Steamed soft vegetables kinda suck, there's no texture

I convinced my mom to let me have some raw carrots whenever she cooked them for dinner. So I'd just get a little bowl full of raw carrots instead of the tasteless yuck that was cooked (still appreciate my mom for that!)

I hate cooked carrots a ton, but will munch on raw carrots, especially baby carrots (convenience) all day.

what's rhagfi

I live burnt veggies.

I’m sorry, what is rhagfi

rhagfi

What?

my mom makes carrots in this sugar water concoction and she roasts them on the stove and i love them

I grew up eating pretty much only canned vegetables and I can't stomach any raw vegetables now. I love boiled veggies though. Turnips are my favorite. I think part of it is what you grow up eating. If it's not mushy, I don't usually like it. The crunch of raw veggies freaks me out. I do like some raw fruits though.

try stir frying them. I come from Hong Kong and we stir fry most of our veggies. If you want a challenge in cooking, boil them in water seasoned with ginger and salt, then serve with Oyster Sauce. damn, i want a plate now

I hated veggies almost my whole life. The smell of cooked broccoli and brussel sprouts grossed me out.

Hung out with a group of friends pretty regularly and took turns bringing food. One buddy who knew I hated most veggies joked that I loved my veggies, and one guy didn't get the sarcasm. Do the next get-together he brought an expensive veggies platter from Costco.

I felt bad that he got it because he thought I liked veggies so I forced myself to eat some, and was blown away hot GOOD raw veggies were!

Didn't even need dip!

Knowledge from nutritionist: some veggies require being heated/cooked to release certain nutrients.

Rhagfi?? Hahaha is this a sound you make?

i was punished as a kid for not eating steamed carrots (texture made me gag) and ever since then i can't even eat the raw ones

I feel you. My parents are from the mid west and veggies were mostly from frozen, then microwaved for about 15 minutes. They were gobsmacked when I put FRESH brussels in the oven. They separately pulled me aside and asked about cheese sauce. Then the sprouts weren't done because they weren't "soft", but both parents actually liked them, to their surprise.

rhagfi

I’m sorry what??

Oh my god this. I hate any sort of cooked carrots, raw all the way, but steamed/boiled broccoli beats raw broccoli any day of the week. Pretty crazy to think about imo

Pretty sure steamed veggies as a whole are actually more nutritious than raw because your body can absorb nutrients. Carrots for sure, but there are others too.

Seriously, if I want veggies I want them raw. Maybe boiled, but roasted and steamed are the worst most of the time with a few exceptions.

Bell peppers don't taste terrible roasted, they just have way to many calories.

Just make sure you eat fat with them so you absorb the fat soluble nutrients. Cooking makes some nutrients easier to absorb, but you need fat with them, too.

Have you tried not boiling all taste and texture out like a 50s house wife?

How streamed/cooked are they? Personally I like steamed broccoli and the tiny carrot things if they're not hard, but still a bit crunchy. But overcooked, mushy veggies make me want to barf

I totally agree, I love raw carrots but cannot stand cooked carrots.The only recipe I have discovered that I can eat cooked carrots in is a recipe for pickled carrots. The pickling overcomes the cooked carrot taste.

We love the flavor of the cooked veggies in our soup, but we don’t like the mushiness. So when we make soup and we boil up all the veggies, we take out the veggies and like a cup or so of the broth, and put them in a blender and pour it back in the soup. This way, you get the flavor and nutrients still, but don’t get that mush

This is because steamed veggies are total trash with no texture. Of course you won't like them.

That's fucking crazy, if the kid asks for raw veggies, you fucking give the kid all the raw veggies he or she wants, that's insane!

I’ve never heard of a kid eating an entire head of lettuce. That’s amazing. I would probably film it because nobody would believe me. Were you making salads with it or just eating it like an apple? I really hope it’s the latter.

You're definitely not wrong there. It was never an issue with me, but every time similar comment threads come up (which is surprisingly common) there are loads of people who say that they thought they hated veggies until they grew up and tried veggies that were cooked well.

I'm from the uk. My mum boiled them with no seasonings and they were often mushy as well.

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Its the whole choice on the matter, like if I dont like option a, and option b is something I (even moderately) enjoy, I'm picking option b every time.

The rule in our family is you have to take one bite before you decide you don't like it.

I'm thinking they were overcooked, they were mushy, and gross, I still can't even think about eating peas without gagging, it was to this day one of the nastiest things I've eaten

Throw a lardons or balsamic glaze drizz'd on top and we're in business, baby!

Brussels sprouts and bacon or panceta is awesome. Render fat from the bacon or panceta. Remove cooked bacon/panceta from pan. I use a cast iron skillet so I throw the Brussels sprouts in and toss for a few minutes above the flame and then I move it to the oven at about 375 until they start to get crispy. Remove from oven, reintroduce cooked bacon/panceta, squeeze some lemon on it and toss. You can feel free to throw some salsa or hot sauce in with them as well. Delicious and super easy.

Boiled sprouts are fine, but they only get 3-5 mins like you would do broccoli or carrots

/r/insaneparents material right there

I have 2 sisters-one was very much 'eat what's your plate, there's children starving in the world who would be grateful for that ', and the other used to offer choices 'you can choose peas, carrots or cauliflower, which do you prefer?' It meant that her children still had some control over what they ate and felt like their views were heard, whilst still eating reasonably healthy. Guess which of my nieces and nephews have a healthy relationship with food and which don't...

Highly depends on how it's implemented. My parents did "eat my food and what i cook or make your own damn food". Same concept because a majority of the time, kids aren't willing to cook for themselves. 99% of the time didn't bother combating because I'm too lazy to cook something. But that 1% of the time, they just made sure I didn't fuck over the stove/cookware or waste any food.

It depends on what and how you serve. You serve good quality food, it's absolutely not. Children need to learn not to be picky. Remember, humans originally ate foraged food like roots, nuts, veggies, and the occasional wild game, the food we serve today is by comparison quite nice as long as it's prepared properly. The key is to be nice about it. "Here is what we're having today, if you don't want to eat it you don't have to, but that doesn't mean you can choose something else to replace it".

Way back in the early 1980s, my dad was given a reward for working for 25 years for the same company-they got given a choice of a watch or a microwave oven so he chose that. It was enormous, all it did was heat up or defrost, no fancy settings for defrosting fish, meat or bread etc, very basic. They cost about £300 back then I think. My mother's friends would come and visit and get really excited by it, mum was the first one of them to get one. And this was England, not some tiny backwater somewhere.

Not offensive at all.

My dad (in his 60s) remembers coming home from college one year and finding a microwave in his parents house. He was so excited because he could now make a BLT in just minutes.

I moved into a very upscale townhouse about 10 years ago and it never occurred to me that there was not a built-in microwave. So, I figured I would just buy one, but there was no place to put it, so I needed a cart for it.

Long story short, after a week or so, we realized that we didn't need one. Food tastes better when reheated on the stove, and an electric tea kettle takes care of hot water. I haven't had one since, and very rarely miss it. If you don't eat packaged food, it's not really necessary.

I know. I ate roasted ones at Fatz and they’re amazing!

Thank you.

I kept changing “diets” when I got bored, stopped snacking, learned to love water, and am surrounded by a loving and supportive family.

Good luck, I know you can do it.

Roast them in the oven with a bit of olive oil and bacon.... I could eat the entire pan!

It’s amazing that they’re the same food. I love them roasted or sautéed now.

Who could boil something that’s so good another way?

Edit: I overstated and it made me feel bad. Sorry for anyone who read my original reply.

No, there was a lot of horrible stuff going on. That wasn’t even bad on the scale of stuff.

Bravaaa!!

Hey Mickey!

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Word. Kids are just small people and at first all they know how to do is emulate those around them. Surround yourself and them with good things and good things are sure to follow. Good luck my friend!

Sounds delicious. What time is dinner? I’ll bring the $1.50 bottle of wine

depending on the icecream this could work. I'm thinking a more savory icecream like pistachio, put it in a pan on low heat, adding a little bit of peanutbutter until ot forms a nice spreadable consistency.

in a separate pan take chicken broth, add corn tortillas to soften them, and then add a very soft, processed cheese, live velveeta. make sure the consistency is just a tad bit watery, then let it simmer on a lower heat without a lid.

returning to the peanutbutter pistachio icecream combo, mix this into shredded chicken and stir fry with no added oil, once crispy, add this to the reduced soup base with tortilla chips in it, and stirr it in.

serve.

Omw

I feel like a GOD in college because I've been making my own sauces and original recipes for years. People will offer anything for a good meal. I usually just feed people if they buy the booze.

My brother put in the effort to become a good cook. His girlfriends are always extremely attractive. I think those facts are connected.

Lol I impressed so many girls in college with my roast chicken. It got me my long term girlfriend. First date made the dish and she thought it was insanely impressive. Did a simple salad with romaine, fennel, Parmesan, lemon juice and olive oil (literally takes 2 seconds but was "super fancy") and roast chicken over fingerling potatoes, carrots and onions. The veggies come out deliciously cooked in chicken fat and olive oil and the chicken has delicious crunchy skin and is moist as hell. Also you can prepare the salad ahead of time and just dress it in front of them and throw the chicken in when they get there and you can entertain while it cooks. I taught like 5 of my friends how to do it and it was their go to "I'm gonna cook a meal" as a date. And when you're used to dining hall food? This was gourmet.

My brother was staying with me for a couple weeks. One day I got home from work and he was on a phone call. I was hungry so I headed into the kitchen, and he called out "There's nothing to eat." 30 minutes later, he was still on the phone when I brought him a plate of chicken Alfredo and the look of amazement on his face was just priceless!

This Babish recipe is something I've done several times now, and it's always amazing. And super easy to do. And cheap! Like $3 worth of ingredients.

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Or you just dehydrate vegetables and hide the powder in everything. It took my husband 3 months to notice he now eats four times the variety.

And often for a lot cheaper!

My head hurts from this.

Circular logic works because circular logic works!

I gave a friends kid choc chip waffles with maple syrup and ice cream once, she wouldn’t touch it because it didn’t look like anything she’d had before. Kid.. it’s a plate of chocolate, sugar, carbs, and ice cream. There is zero chance you don’t freaking love it.

Nope, wouldn’t eat it. Wanted a maccas ice cream instead.

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There was a restaurant back in my hometown that had a spice scale of five stars. My family always asked for half a star.

No prizes for guessing our complexion.

Yes anybody who thinks the point of spices is to burn the shit out of your mouth and cause you pain is ridiculous. Yes some people actually enjoy that and good for them, but not doing so does not mean you “hate spicy food”.

I spent years avoiding spice because my dad is one of those “blow your head off” cooks when it comes to spicy food and I just do not enjoy it. Learned how to actually season including spicy stuff and it’s so much nicer. Plus when you can eat more than one bite without being miserable your tolerance goes up pretty fast.

How were the shits?

Sometimes the taste buds are willing but not the rest of the digestive tract.

Some things can't be fixed.

But usually you can do SOMETHING.

At least it's healthy. I did something similar, frozen vegetable mix with lean pork every day in uni, and working out every other day. Cheap and easy but really bland. Some basic brown sauce made it palatable. As time has passed I've gotten worse and worse at making food and now I've lost all creativity.

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You know what kind of food app I want? One that first makes me buy ingredients and then suggests various meals based on those ingredients. Then it tracks what I use based on the meal I pick, and figures out what I have leftover to modify suggestions the next day.

It should be really simple to correct the ingredients-list if you ate some extra eggs for breakfast.

It should have a budget slider for week or month to modify its suggestions.

And it should also have an optional nutrition tracker that influences suggestions, so that if you consistently eat a lot of meat it might start to emphasize other meals more heavily to balance your diet. I have no idea if I get enough vitamins.

I'm wary of current food apps because I think mobile apps by default just sell all my data and I become a marketing target. I think I'll look into making this for myself so I can skip all the privacy concerns.

FINE, THEN WE'LL ONLY PUT IN POSTS THAT YOU WANT!

YOU'RE JUST LIKE YOUR FATHER

Being just a little petty is human without being cruel. I wouldn’t lose any sleep my friend.

Did he know it was your dish for the 3rd helping?

This is the plot for "Delicious" with Dawn French. An entire series based around the idea that you can seduce anyone if you cook well enough.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delicious_(TV_series) ... It's a bit of a boundary pusher of a show, it made me say "wtf" more than once!

But... it’s literally just stacking the shit between bread?...

Don’t care what it is, anyone who prides themselves on ignorance of a topic gets a hard pass from me

Wait, tell me more. I've never heard of that. In what kinds of dishes?

Damn flakes are addictive!

Thanks a lot! Saved your comment, I'll try to make it in the near future.

Looks pretty good, not sure why the negative comments. Haters gonna hate.

Ignore the comments. Imgur folks love to hate on things for no apparent reason. Consider posting things as private there, then it will only be viewable for people you give the link to. And don't let anyone tell you that using canned tomatoes is cheating or doesn't make it homemade.

Tomatoes are only in season for so long and out of season they just don't taste good. Canned tomatoes are canned at peak ripeness and when you are cooking them down into a sauce anyways it doesn't matter that they have a different texture from fresh ones. Anyone who claims that canned tomatoes are inherently bad just demonstrates that they know absolutely nothing about cooking.

You are awesome! Bookmarked your recipe. It looks so much like my mom's process.

Something she used to do when making meatballs was to put raisins in the meatball mix, and leave the sugar out of the tomato sauce. When the meatballs cook in the sauce, they add the sweetness the recipe needs to balance the acid. The raisins plump up but lose all their sweetness to the overall recipe, so just become a slight texture change within the meatballs themselves. One of my childhood favorites!

Thanks again for posting this!

Sure! You know what, I’ll paste it here. Just as easy!

So I don’t have exact amounts, but just play around a bit and it’ll be fine. Also I’m a veggie, but you can add meat of course if you want to.

1. I prefer red onions. And not just one - I use like 4 or 5, chopped up. Heat up olive oil (some table spoons - may be quite a lot with the amounts mentioned here). Simmer with ground pepper, stir regularly. Lower the heat and let it simmer until they’re getting soft and mushy. If you want that lovely ‘my Italian grandmother is cooking us a wholesome meal’ smell in the kitchen, add 2-3 tablespoons of dried oregano right from the beginning (this is one of those herbs that taste better if you heat them right away).

2. Add a lot of chopped garlic, like 6-7 cloves. I prefer to chop them small instead of using a press, this allegedly enhances the taste. Make sure these, too, simmer long and not on too much heat.

3. Then add the veggies (I usually go for what’s cheap, where I live that’s zucchini and bell peppers). Stir regularly and make sure they get all soft and glazy (not mushy).

4. Then add a small can of tomato purée and make sure it’s heated through to soften the tartness.

5. Add a couple of cans of diced tomatoes (I usually do 3-4 of 400 grams). Flavor with balsamic vinegar (I recommend to try little amounts and add more. For me, this lifts the ‘heaviness’ of a usual pasta sauce into a lighter taste), honey (to battle the tartness of the tomatoes and vinegar), Italian herb mix (handful), salt and pepper to taste and, if you’re a sucker for extra savory like me, some ve-tsin.

6. Now we wait. A loooong time. Stir regularly (scraping the bottom) until the sauce is ‘cooking in’. This may take well up to an hour depending on the amount you’ve made, but this will create what Italians call ‘stracotto’, a lovely dense savory sauce.

7. I sometimes add leftover olives at the end, and freshly cut basil leaves.

Can be frozen for later use (this is my go-to meal prep). Let it cool in the container and then cling a bit of cling foil to the sauce, covering it entirely, before closing the lid. This prevents that distasteful frozen landscape on your food upon thawing it.

Let me know if you discover a way to improve it 😁

And as a ‘bis’ here’s another banger that I’ve recently discovered, of which the origins are to be attributed to Ottlenghi. I’ve added the step of blending it, as nothing grosses me out like tough curled up tomato peels in my food...

It’s extremely satisfying, like a comforting hug from a compassionate mother.

1. Slice 4-5 cloves of garlic really thin. Simmer them on low heat in quite a lot of olive oil and make sure they get lightish brown on both sides but not too much.

2. Add 1 kilogram of cherry tomatoes that are cut in half. Preferably a sweet kind, or that has had enough time to sweeten at home.

3. Directly add 1 teaspoon of sugar, half a teaspoon of salt, two chopped up chili peppers and 200 milliliters of water. (Original recipe says ancho pepper but I couldn’t find that anywhere).

4. Stir on medium to high heat for about 4-5 minutes until the tomatoes start falling apart.

5. Then turn the heat down a bit and let it all simmer for about an hour. Stir every now and then.

6. Blend the sauce.

7. Add 20 chopped fresh basil leaves.

8. Serve with spaghetti and Parmesan cheese.

9. Happily drift off to food heaven.

I’ve shared it as a response here, not sure how to direct..?

Actually, this one I did learn from an Italian cook, although they usually use a bit of sugar or grated carrots. Putting sweet in there to battle the sour is quite common.

A friend of mine is the same way with tomatoes! He's a really good cook, too it drives me crazy he can't enjoy them.

Oh man, just googled Balut. Super proud of you! Big nope for me haha

Can't eat pineapples at all, love pineapple juice. It's like the only reason I oppose pineapple pizza. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

cottage cheese is a garbage food and you’re right to never doubt that

For some reason I can't do avocado. And I don't know if it's even the texture, the tiniest bit in something like sushi will start making me gag. Like my mouth can pick out avocado as the worst substance ever and I'll just be sitting there like Why the fuck can't I eat this sushi

Oof, yeah, raw onion is still one of those I’m just not a fan of. Much prefer them cooked down or even pickled. (ACV + rice vinegar + red onion = yum!)

My brother is the opposite and I’m convinced he’d eat an onion like an apple.

Yeah, that’s not a helpful thing to get good food competence. The discussion of food likes/dislikes really is dependent on being able to refuse foods. I’d suspect at this point that your issues might be psychologically rooted and therapy might help with the new food anxiety. You might also investigate sensory disorders as a possibility. That’s pretty common for people who carry pickiness into adulthood.

I've never had mushrooms but this for garlic.

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I can't stand fried or scrambled eggs. And until recently I felt the same about all egg based foods. Not stuff where the egg was mixed in, just where it was the main ingredient.

Then mum made some pea and mint mini fritattas from a WeightWatcher's recipe. Those did not last, they were too moreish.

I've since discovered that omelettes are delicious, as long as I make them myself and am therefore capable of spicing it to my liking. Certain quiches are also tolerable. And I've always loved eggy bread.

Don't give me Scotch eggs though. Those can fuck right off.

chicken periods

Ha! Thank you for brightening up my afternoon :) What's your opinion on duck periods?

For my part, the one thing I'm still picky about is cheese. First few bites on an empty stomach are good, but usually after a few more bites I want to throw up, so I tend to avoid it in general because I hate wasting food. But it's okay in certain contexts like pizza (although sometimes even that ends up being too much).

Weird thing is, I'm lactose intolerant but I love milk/ice cream/yogurt... it's only cheese that makes me want to vomit.

The cats. I grew up with cats. That smell. Ick.

Naw man, if someone is stupid enough to cook and eat a medium rare chicken "steak" that's on them.

Does... does he not know what a STEAK is?

Has he never played minecraft?(idk the year)

Which is a part of why you shouldn't force the issue.

Also why it is good to ask specifics and describe things. I have heard, for example, someone discovered they have a tomato allergy after they said "I hate tomatos because they're too spicy. Burns my mouth."

If a kid calls lima beans "bleh" they just hate them. If they say a random food "burns" or "feels itchy" it can be an allergy.

I love carrots but am allergic to raw carrots, I don't put them in ice water but I cook them for a very short period of time when I'm in the mood for raw carrots but will settle for cooked but still a little bit of crunch.

I enjoy raw broccoli, but you’re right it’s even better blanched.

I eat raw broccoli, it's nice and crunchy.

They sell shredded broccoli slaw with the bagged salads in most big grocery stores. It's amazing with cranberries, green onions, nuts, diced cheese and a poppyseed or honey mustard dressing. Add apples too. It's good for getting kids to eat more veggies.

And sunflower seeds, of course.

That sounds delicious (except the mushrooms lol). That’s awesome that he liked it and honestly there’s a whole lot of foods that have one or more of those ingredients as the base. He opened up a whole new world of dishes!

That sounds delicious. Any particular measurements or a season to taste type deal?

Did you know that the ability to smell asparagus in pee is genetic? Not everyone can smell it! I found that out because it's one of the results listed in the 23andme DNA analysis. I told my parents and my dad said, "Wow that's cool!" while my mom said, "Wait, you can smell asparagus in your pee???" Pretty obvious who I inherited it from lol!

Steak= 6 minutes per side that's it.

the burgers i had were cooked well done too. so these were just, so dang dry. had to douse them in ketchup to keep from coughing. which i loved to do.....until i found what nice medium cooked stuff was like. oh man.

The only way I have eaten Brussels sprouts that I could stand was sauteed with soy sauce.

Cooked cabbage I sort of actually like, especially with potatoes. And sauerkraut or rotkraut.

Roasting brings up the roasted veg my former housemates used to make, which included beets, turnips and parsnips. Which is how I found that I also loathe turnips and parsnips. The only thing that smells worse than a turnip is a rotten turnip.

this sounds awesome, saving it for later, thanks!! c:

It's white, so it doesn't stand out.

We had the talk about words not to say in public, especially school, and poop was one of them. I think he thinks it's a curse word but at home he'll say he has to poop or his butt smells like poop and and he doesnt get in trouble for it. Its just one of those words that always gets a groan from me so he likes to use it, lol.

What? This is literally a thread about getting kids to try new things.

It is also not better to stay a picky eater. There are many delicious foods out there.

You sound like a troll...

Gross