https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sat, 09 May 2026 17:17:46 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/were-you-a-picky-eater-as-a-child-and-are-you-a-picky-eater-now/page/2#post-616627 Wed, 06 Mar 2013 08:40:30 +0000 immabeetoo 616627@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes and no. For me I think it was a control thing when I was little - I was just testing my limits and being defiant. As an adult I clearly have grown up haha and try a lot more! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/were-you-a-picky-eater-as-a-child-and-are-you-a-picky-eater-now/page/2#post-616622 Wed, 06 Mar 2013 08:33:20 +0000 MrsSCB 616622@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>No and no :-) I will eat almost anything except cilantro. I CANNOT eat cilantro, I think I have that genetic predisposition to hate it! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/were-you-a-picky-eater-as-a-child-and-are-you-a-picky-eater-now/page/2#post-616603 Wed, 06 Mar 2013 08:24:41 +0000 Mrs. Pickle 616603@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I wasn't a picky eater as a kid and I'm not picky now. There are a couple things I never liked ( mayo and cauliflower) and I don't think I ever will. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/were-you-a-picky-eater-as-a-child-and-are-you-a-picky-eater-now/page/2#post-616547 Wed, 06 Mar 2013 07:55:15 +0000 yellowbird 616547@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I was extremely picky as a child and I remember my parents trying to make me stay at the able until I finished, but I never would! </p> <p>I eat everything now, not picky at all. There are several meals I refuse though. Anything with gravy, some cuts and types of meat: I'll eat any vegetable though! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/were-you-a-picky-eater-as-a-child-and-are-you-a-picky-eater-now/page/2#post-616542 Wed, 06 Mar 2013 07:52:57 +0000 MrsH 616542@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Wasn't picky as a kid. Eat all types of foods now. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/were-you-a-picky-eater-as-a-child-and-are-you-a-picky-eater-now/page/2#post-616201 Tue, 05 Mar 2013 22:29:59 +0000 tysonja 616201@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I don't think there is anything edible that I don't like, and have been like that since I was little. We always ate lots of different foods and flavours growing up. </p> <p>I wonder if there is any kind of medical procedure or help of some sort to help those who have major aversions to different kinds of tastes/textures etc -- I can just imagine that having those aversions would make social situations etc kind of stressful at times, and that is not fun :( </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/were-you-a-picky-eater-as-a-child-and-are-you-a-picky-eater-now/page/2#post-616180 Tue, 05 Mar 2013 22:21:27 +0000 marionberry 616180@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I was a super picky eater as a child and have gotten better as an adult, but am still picky about certain things. With our child we will purposely introduce lots of different foods so that perhaps he/she won't be so picky...but in the end, there's not much you can do about it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/were-you-a-picky-eater-as-a-child-and-are-you-a-picky-eater-now/page/2#post-616179 Tue, 05 Mar 2013 22:21:20 +0000 brownie 616179@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@sarac: I didn't have ear infections but it seems likely I may have some autistic tendencies which cause my food issues. Or maybe a super taster I don't know. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/were-you-a-picky-eater-as-a-child-and-are-you-a-picky-eater-now/page/2#post-616169 Tue, 05 Mar 2013 22:18:21 +0000 brownie 616169@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I am extremely picky as a child and even now. I eat like a 5 year old at the oldest. I am very careful about textures and even call anything that changes the texture "goobers". I am very picky about the brands of food and actually taste the difference. Eating can be a very anxious time for me as I worry about what might be in or on the food.</p> <p>When I was 9 I went to girl scout camp and you have to try everything in order to have desert. I wanted desert so badly so I tried a bell pepper. I puked after trying it and didn't end up getting desert anyway. </p> <p>Luckily my son is not picky at all and we have worked hard to make good food associations for him. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/were-you-a-picky-eater-as-a-child-and-are-you-a-picky-eater-now/page/2#post-616152 Tue, 05 Mar 2013 22:11:57 +0000 Maysprout 616152@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I was a lot more sensitive to bitter tastes when I was younger. I threw up a little when we did the taste test in school for bitter (when you taste sweet, sour, etc). I guess I grew out of it because I'm not very picky now. I do have an eating style but if I'm a guest in someones house served family style I'll eat and try everything.</p> <p>I did an eating study when LO was first born and they really stressed not filling kids plates and then forcing them to eat everything, that it builds bad habits and associations with foods. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/were-you-a-picky-eater-as-a-child-and-are-you-a-picky-eater-now/page/2#post-615857 Tue, 05 Mar 2013 20:35:37 +0000 Mrs. Jacks 615857@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@sarac: It's kind of a cool trait to have! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/were-you-a-picky-eater-as-a-child-and-are-you-a-picky-eater-now/page/2#post-615473 Tue, 05 Mar 2013 18:09:48 +0000 sarac 615473@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Jacks: I am one! I've done the blue dye test. I think it all goes together to make eating really difficult for me. </p> <p>A little hope for all of you worried about raising a picky child - my daughter is ABSOLUTELY not like me. My husband and I have worked really hard to expose her to a wide variety of food, and she likes just about all of it. She doesn't have any of the pickiness that I had since birth. Now, I fully expect her to do the usual toddler/child food stuff, and I don't think she'll always be so good about it, at every moment. But she absolutely seems to lack my taste issues. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/were-you-a-picky-eater-as-a-child-and-are-you-a-picky-eater-now#post-615255 Tue, 05 Mar 2013 17:17:07 +0000 Mrs. Jacks 615255@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@sarac: There are also people who are super-tasters. Don't know if you are one, but apparently you can test the density of your taste buds with a dye and see if you are one.</p> <p>Mr Jacks and I joke that I'm a supertaster, but I haven't actually done the test. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/were-you-a-picky-eater-as-a-child-and-are-you-a-picky-eater-now#post-615242 Tue, 05 Mar 2013 17:13:25 +0000 MrsRcCar 615242@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I have never been a picky food person. DH on the other hand doesn't eat any veggies. It drives me crazy. Hopefully DS will be like me and not his daddy. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/were-you-a-picky-eater-as-a-child-and-are-you-a-picky-eater-now#post-615235 Tue, 05 Mar 2013 17:09:40 +0000 googly-eyes 615235@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I've never been a really picky eater, but we did eat a sort of limited menu at home when I was a kid, so there were a lot of things I didn't try until adulthood. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/were-you-a-picky-eater-as-a-child-and-are-you-a-picky-eater-now#post-615232 Tue, 05 Mar 2013 17:08:44 +0000 teamjse 615232@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm not a picky eater and still not. I was only picky when I was pregnant. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/were-you-a-picky-eater-as-a-child-and-are-you-a-picky-eater-now#post-615101 Tue, 05 Mar 2013 16:28:33 +0000 Sweet T 615101@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I've never been a picky eater. As a kid, I'd eat almost any vegetable. There are a few things that most people like that I never could make myself enjoy, like oatmeal. I hate the texture of it! I have to make myself eat it. Yuck! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/were-you-a-picky-eater-as-a-child-and-are-you-a-picky-eater-now#post-615070 Tue, 05 Mar 2013 16:22:14 +0000 littlek 615070@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I was a very picky eater as a child and I didn't eat much. I am kind of a picky eater now, but not as bad as some people. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/were-you-a-picky-eater-as-a-child-and-are-you-a-picky-eater-now#post-615041 Tue, 05 Mar 2013 16:16:06 +0000 Mrs. Bee 615041@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@sarac: that's really interesting! i don't know enough about the topic (the ear infections part is interesting!) but i agree with you. i think charlie had some sensory issues with food textures for the first two years, but seems to have largely outgrown it now. </p> <p>i can't imagine having most things taste bitter! and beer and wine... oh my! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/were-you-a-picky-eater-as-a-child-and-are-you-a-picky-eater-now#post-615037 Tue, 05 Mar 2013 16:14:55 +0000 Dandelion 615037@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Not picky at all...it's just food. Nothing to be scared of. I'm open to try anything. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/were-you-a-picky-eater-as-a-child-and-are-you-a-picky-eater-now#post-615029 Tue, 05 Mar 2013 16:12:49 +0000 Cole 615029@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I was very picky as a child, I am better now as an adult but I still am more picky than most adults. I am pretty well convinced that I have mild sensory issues between my food issues and a few other quirks that I have. I have definitely expanded the number of foods I will eat but the new things still seem to fit the categories that were acceptable to me as a kid for example-- I loved smooth, creamy things as a kid and now I will eat avocados; I wouldn't eat real mashed potatoes because they were lumpy, now I eat them but I usually use the tines of my fork to break up any big lumps.</p> <p>@sarac: That is so interesting to me! I am always reassured to hear that sometimes there are actual reasons for picky eating. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/were-you-a-picky-eater-as-a-child-and-are-you-a-picky-eater-now#post-615005 Tue, 05 Mar 2013 16:06:37 +0000 JessiBee 615005@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes and somewhat. As a kid I hated almost all vegetables. Now, I'm miles ahead of my childhood self, but still ... "discerning?" Yeah, I'm still pretty picky. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/were-you-a-picky-eater-as-a-child-and-are-you-a-picky-eater-now#post-614996 Tue, 05 Mar 2013 16:05:05 +0000 Alivoo01 614996@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>No and no. If anything, I've become less "picky" as I got older trying out new things! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/were-you-a-picky-eater-as-a-child-and-are-you-a-picky-eater-now#post-614983 Tue, 05 Mar 2013 16:02:49 +0000 JennyLayneAZ 614983@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>No and no. I do enjoy foods now that I didn't as a kid, like onions, but I don't think the foods I didn't like as a child were uncommon for children to dislike.</p> <p>Two foods I still dislike are pineapple &amp; cucumbers (which I am actually allergic to, so it doesn't matter that I don't care for cucumbers!). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/were-you-a-picky-eater-as-a-child-and-are-you-a-picky-eater-now#post-614974 Tue, 05 Mar 2013 16:00:45 +0000 LittleFox 614974@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I was a super picky eater as a child, but I eat pretty normally now. I still have foods I really dislike and won't eat (squash and similar veggies because I hate the texture, pretty much all sea food), but it's no big deal. My mom was the same way growing up. </p> <p>To those of you who say they didn't have the chance to be picky, what do you mean? Is it that your folks would make you clean your plate? Or that you wouldn't get a special meal because you didn't like what was served? Both? </p> <p>I ask because those sorts of things didn't work on me. I was the kid who, if told to eat everything, would sit at the dinner table and stare at the plate for 4+ hours and just be hungry. Saving it in the fridge for later didn't work because I wouldn't eat it then, either. My mom never worried because she had been the same way as a kid and grew up to not be picky, but it drove my stepdad nuts. A few times he actually force fed me foods I didn't like. Those are all foods that I have such a strong aversion to today that they make me physically ill when I try them. It's sad, because many are things I hear are good (sweet potatoes, for example), but when I've given them honest chances I struggle to even keep them down. The tactics for getting me to eat things I disliked also affected my long term relationship with food. I think it's important for kids to try things, but if they are able to get proper nutrition otherwise I don't think it's okay to force them to eat something they think is gross. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/were-you-a-picky-eater-as-a-child-and-are-you-a-picky-eater-now#post-614854 Tue, 05 Mar 2013 15:34:23 +0000 vnvdvci 614854@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@sarac: Oddly enough, things that have an expected bitterness are ok for him--he likes beer and wine, though he does more genuinely enjoy the sweet drinks. But something like Brie, which everyone says is creamy and melty awesomeness he says has this bitter taste he can only describe as "death", lol. He gets it for other random foods and it makes me think he's tasting a chemical or something that others are not. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/were-you-a-picky-eater-as-a-child-and-are-you-a-picky-eater-now#post-614831 Tue, 05 Mar 2013 15:29:55 +0000 prettylizy 614831@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I was never a picky eater, but I did (do) have a few things that I don't like to this day. I still hate all fish and seafood, and I don't like canned peas though I can tolerate them now. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/were-you-a-picky-eater-as-a-child-and-are-you-a-picky-eater-now#post-614828 Tue, 05 Mar 2013 15:29:12 +0000 sarac 614828@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@vnvdvci: Yeah, I was really heartened to read that study. Most of the people I know just assume I could get over it if I 'really tried', which drives me crazy. I've been trying to appreciate beer and wine for a decade, and they continue to taste as awful and bitter as always. This is not something I have the power to change. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/were-you-a-picky-eater-as-a-child-and-are-you-a-picky-eater-now#post-614821 Tue, 05 Mar 2013 15:27:34 +0000 vnvdvci 614821@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@sarac: I agree, I definitely think there's some physical justification for picky eating. DH was an ultra-picky child and he's much better now, but still can't eat some things. He talks about how certain foods taste incredibly "bitter", when they don't taste bitter at all to anyone else. Come to think of it, he's had horrible ear infections in the past... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/were-you-a-picky-eater-as-a-child-and-are-you-a-picky-eater-now#post-614820 Tue, 05 Mar 2013 15:27:28 +0000 Mrs. Jacks 614820@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Honeybee: Yeah, I should totally be working but decided to take a 5 min mental health break! /&lt;hijack&gt; </p>