If you had a kid, how would you try to prevent them from becoming a picky eater?

My diet was horrific growing up and it caused my nutrient deficiencies

The issue was my parents being ignorant. They didnt know how to make healthy food taste good. also their diet beliefs were meme tier
I have studied diet and nutrition autistically for years. It's not their fault that they had no idea, they didn't grow up with internet and the government advice is horrendous

You just have to form the diet around tastes & preferences. And if certain nutrients are still missing, suppement

Go chug some gutter oil, cheng.

It's not about taste, they can barely taste. it's about the stuff that make up the food that sedates their body. You then grow a taste for it. it's tastey, but it's not as good as your brain thinks it is.

>they can barely taste
It's the opposite. They have more taste buds and taste more things

give a baby a jalapeno, see what happens. they don't taste

Force them to try a little bit of everything and introduce them to a lot of variety when they are young.

>they don't taste
Doesnt make sense. why are they picky eaters then? It is because they are picky when it comes to tastes

>why are they picky eaters then?
chemical dependency. they associate a few foods with good feelings because they are so simple minded.

I don't think this is an opinion based on science, but rather an attempt to feel superior for your own varied and diverse tastes in fooda

What do you say to a fully grown adult whose favorite food is mac n cheese?

keeeeeeeeeeeeek where did this come from, lad?

100% accurate. Faggots who think they're special because they eat more memes are so repulsive.

>What do you say to a fully grown adult whose favorite food is mac n cheese?
I would question their intelligence level, mac n cheese is good, but mac n cheese with cut up pieces of ham is great.

I love ham but i don't think adding it to mac n cheese improves the taste at all
Box mac n cheese is utter shit though

The bacteria in your gut have the most influence over what foods you enjoy. Those bacteria change depending on the food you eat. If you force yourself to eat something you don't like, in 2-3 weeks you will start tolerating it, in 2-3 months you will actually enjoy it.

There's an opinion based on science user, do with it what you wish.

>If you force yourself to eat something you don't like, in 2-3 weeks you will start tolerating it, in 2-3 months you will actually enjoy it.
Odd. i used to drink beer daily for weeks and it never tasted good to me. Ever

I think this is psuedoscience

it's not all about taste, kiddo. that's how you get to 600lbs

They will eat what I put on their plate or go to bed hungry.

>it's not all about taste, kiddo. that's how you get to 600lbs
I agree. If i ate only based on taste i would be morbidly obese

I eat healthy. However i dont lie to myself and pretend like cheesy pasta isn't the best tasting food. I acknowledge that it is and that i also need to restrain myself

When i said "favorite food" i meant "favorite tasting food"

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All i eat are hot pockets and water. Am I ok. Sometimes i get lean pockets too.

They surprisingly have a lot of protein so you might be fine

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This was me. My parents tried everything but I was faggot loser toddler and kid who would eat chicken nuggets and mac and cheese and hot dogs and I hated things being mixed. Took until I was 20 before I started getting very diverse with my eating habits. What did it for me was travelling and I was embarrassed eating basic food while going around. You quickly change your eating habits when you aren't at home and you feel like you're being judged. So glad I tried new stuff though, food is fucking amazing.

Literally do what my parents did, and say that you either eat or go to bed hungry or sit down until you've eaten everything (because yyou'll have nothing but fruits until evening), and not let the kid live on fucking 'Donalds his/hers first 10 years.

I was considered a picky eater for wanting to eat healthy food. The rest of the family just ate cake, cookies, pop, chips, marshmallows, etc and I did too until I got a bit older and learned about nutrition. Then I was called "picky" and their food "wasn't good enough for me" , and "I'm too good for them, I need special food". So they're all dead now and had diabetes and obesity while I suffered from chronic tooth decay and other problems, but I'm skinny now. They would always use the argument "You ate it before, you must like it". Then they'd spend all the money on junk food and I'd have no choice but to eat it. They would also point back to times when I was a toddler and say "But you never wanted to eat broccoli." No shit when you're offered pancakes and gummy candies and cookies as an option and have no concept of nutrition yet. They held those decisions against me for years as an excuse not to buy healthy, real food.

My vision is terrible, I wear glasses but I don't know if it was so bad because of nutrition or what. Contact prescription was "-4.50 left and -4.25 right". Nowadays I eat lots of meat, vegetables and a little fruit with occasional snack food.

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Don't let them eat what they choose to. If they refuse to eat the three meals provided, they don't get to pick what they have instead. If they're hungry, they'll eat what they're given.
If they genuinely hate the taste of something then I'll find replacements, but I'm not having my kid tell me it isn't easy spaghetti Bolognese because it wants a pepperoni pizza.

I wonder if it really is that easy. I'm sure a lot of parents try this but they eventually give in. You might need a strong authoritarian will to be a good parent.

Half true. When they're super young, before they're cunning, work out what they don't like and stop offering it immediately before they learn that refusal can work.

I.e. My boy near-vommed eating peas. So I didn't give them to him. He ate everything else and I never spent a single minute trying to force the peas on him and he never learned that resistance was possible.

What my parents did to me. Don't like the food on the plate then don't eat.

.>i only eat things that are the same color as me

>If you had a kid, how would you try to prevent them from becoming a picky eater?
Same method we used at home.
>give kid food.
>He refuses, put a tantrum
>Ask him if he wanna eat
>Kid say no
>Leave table without eating
>at next meal, present him the same food.
Kids are weak, they'll break in before the food start rotting away.
Worst case, they can hold 2 days at most.

>kids menus

The whole idea of a kids' menu is weird. When I was growing up in France, there was no such thing as a kids' menu, just a kids' portion size.
Children ate what the adults ate. The idea that the child would eat something different (after he learned to eat solid food) just never came up.

Actually, no. Kids' food would often have less spice, since children don't always tolerate pepper.

But the point is, no one became a picky eater.

In the US, children get their cheeseburgers, cheese pizza, or chicken fingers because it's the only way the parents can go out to a nice restaurant without risking the child throwing a tantrum over a roasted brussels sprout.

Who are you quoting, anoon?

Billy Blindboy

The other thing that helps is just realizing that not everything is the basic everyday crap your busy parents made. I hated tuna until I was about 25 when this weeb I knew persuaded me to try sashimi. I was blown away, I just never realized that not everything is that crappy canned "chicken of the sea" garbage that my dad would make tuna casserole from.

>roasted brussels sprout.
>Implying adults amerilard don't throw a tantrum for that.

I think I read somewhere that if you since Kid's stuff usually has more sugar/salt, it messes with their how they feel taste, they get so used to the strong stuff that they can't stand eating a Lettuce or something like that. It literally feels worse to them than to someone who is used to eating it because they are so used to much junk food that anything else is just too bland.

One of my cousins, which is morbidly obese, has a son. Their eating habits are so bad that the kid, which just turned 9 years old, has cholesterol problems. The kid is not even fat. It is so bad that said cousin of mine had a stroke some months ago and still living the same lifestyle. I feel bad for the kid.

I was the opposite of a picky eater.

I even ate fucking lemons when I was like fucking 3. I cried, but I still ate them.

Get on my level pussies.

Well, the adult Amerilard is expected to try/enjoy vegetables once he becomes an adult.
If all he's ever known is high-sugar, high-salt, high-fat foods, a vegetable will taste like bland shit.

I think I saw somewhere that broccoli is commonly eaten with a sort of nacho cheese sauce in the US.

I'd slap his shit.

Mate, I was eating sand and insects. Almost died eating some wild berries even.
Wild childhood is best childhood.

Whenever I see those lumps of fat on their obese scooter I only have disdain and can't actually believe anyone has any expectations for those beasts.

And for this nacho stuff, eating maybe 50g of broccolis drowned into 200g of cheese ain't good either if I base myself on the only reference I've ever heard about that (that one episode of the powerpuff girls)

Stop being a pussy excuse of a parent. Tell them off when they don't eat what is put in front of them and don't give them anything else. It is that fucking simple. Just don't give them any other food other than what you have made for them for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

It's what my parents did with me. All the kids who had shit behaviour and poor eating had really weak and liberal parents who were scared of being 'authoritarian'.

This.

>One of my cousins...
I have a similar problem. He comes to visit and his parents bring food for him because there's nothing like that in my house.

>Uncle user, I'm hungry
OK, let's make lunch. How about some lentils and sausage? Have you ever tried that?
>What's a lentil?
It's sort of like a bean...
>No, I don't want that

So I make it anyway, because he promised he'd eat the sausage at least, but it turns out that the sausage was cooked in the same pot as the lentils and that was that. He chose to go hungry.

When you have a situation like this, I have found a way to get them to try new food is to involve them in food preparation.

They feel like they have some control over what they eat and they can be assured there's no surprises.

"I don't want to use the vegetables when we make this"
Well, the recipe needs them, so let's use a little less and we'll chop them up really small so you won't get big chunks of them.

>eating fish and carrots actually does help your vision

Mom was right all along.

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sports, long trips hiking, any kind of physical exhaustion. any food starts to look tasty when you NEED calories. then hit'em with them vegetables and meat or fish they've been refusing.

they can't do this because it would make pringles toxic at high amounts.

>any food starts to look tasty when you NEED calories.
This. Starving guys on desert islands or lost in the wild have reported that dirty bugs and roots and stuff were positively delicious when they had to eat them out of desperation.

Teenage implies min age 13, at this age you should be able to google/research what the fuck a nutrition is plus possible middle school or high school courses may have already went over this (healthy active living, physical education, gym etc)

Both the parents and the kid are retarded in this case. But up to age 10, i say child obesity is child abuse

By being a better cook than my mother was. I didn't know that not all veg had to mushy until cooked it for myself.

He was 17. Orig