GoTravel

AHA! Found the site!

http://www.whollywholesome.com/

Their baked goods are out of this world!

angethereader

I have three kids - and I think it's both.
I have always shopped, and cooked. They always had to TRY whatever I made. I had one kid that ate broccoli and shrimp at age 2 and another that didn't even like macaroni and cheese.
The oldest was VERY picky, the middle would eat almost anything, and the youngest was somewhat picky.
However, as adults they are much more adventerous than most of their friends. I would not consider any but the oldest somewhat picky any more.

travel_addict

Thanks GoT - I have tried their pies, and other products and they are wonderful!

And Snowrooster - you're right - kids that try new foods are much easier to travel with. I have gone on trips with my sister and her family and they never want to try any local restaurants - only the national junk food chains they are comfortable with. It's really sad what they are missing out on.

lizziea06

GoT - LOL about blue cheese. I had a bite of my grandmother's salad with blue cheese dressing when I was about 6. I thought I was going to die. Now I like blue cheese, so I guess your taste buds really do change. Same with mustard. I didn't like it until I was a pre-teen, and now it's a must have condiment.

I was born in 1980, and I think my generation is probably among the first of the lunchables. Thankfully my parents raised me with adventurous and good eating habits, so there are very few things I won't try, and many, many things I love

I have so many friends who won't eat seafood, wheat bread, or any kind of ethnic food. What a shame.

CHOCOLATE_WATER_ICE

I am a picky eater. I don't know if I was born that way.

I like to try new foods. However, I have strong reactions to the things I am not able to eat/dislike strongly (think literal gag reflex).

Manners and eating preferences are very different things to me.

I don't throw a fit, tell anyone/everyone that I think the whatever served to me is bad (as in "I hate the fish") or even comment. I don't want attention or to get someone to do extras at their home.

I will ask for something to be left off if it is not pre made (like no onions on my whatever, please). I am also willing to make a meal of a plain baked potato (or something like it) when I dine away from home with others. I don't insist on eating at my favorite place. If there is anything I am able to eat, I will do so. I also am willing to skip a meal if someone else is desperate to have whatever - like lobster on the beach in Maine.

I wonder how many former (or present) members of the "clean plate people" have weight problems. I have read that eating everything a person is served training leads to overeating and over weight people as children and
later on. I know this is not the same as "please try one bite".

Congrats on having/raising flexible food preference kids. Are they flexible on other things, too?

I think that some people are easy going on lots of things and have that temperment. It is great for them. I believe it makes life easy to be comfortable with a great variety of foods/hotels/standards of whatever.

I think that people who are not that way are not necessairily spoiled brats (my words - not implying them on anyone else).

I try to have tolerance for people who are able to eat anything for thinking everyone is able to easily do the same. I am not.

lizziea06

I would also add Pirate's Booty to the list of must-have organic snack foods around the house!

snowrooster

It's really laughable! If you don't like this sort of thread (which I still feel IS somewhat travel related), why would you click on it, read it and then ADD to it (consequently sending it to the top)?!?

aossip

I think that if you have kids who are picky eaters you'll think they're born that way, but if your kids eat anything or you don't have kids you'll think it's because of the way they were raised. Most parents I know try to get their kids to eat different things with different degrees of success. My 3 kids have different eating habits and their tastes have changed (improved) over the years but are all much pickier than I ever was.

GoTravel

What is Pirate's Booty and do you have a link?

kswl

Personally, I'd rather read this than another dissection of the Rick Steves phenomenon.

Hooray, finally I have everyone beat in some area of Fodor's! I haven't travelled nearly as much as many of the posters, am not as well-read, can't cite train schedules and the best seats to nab on all planes, my kids aren't all geniuses or even completely well-behaved at all times, we've never had a family trip that didn't involve at least one major tantrum from somebody, DH and I are both (ahem) a bit over the ideal BMI, and I can't even agree graceully with people over on the US board about wedding gift registries.

But I DO have the child with the strangest eating habits:

When our oldest son was five, he decided (arbitrarily, it seemed to us) that he would not eat any food from Switzerland. He then expanded this boycott the next year to include any food from countries where people speak German.

We never figured this out.

CAPH52

Doesn't seem like a difficult concept, does it, snowrooster? But for some people, apparently it is.

CAPH52

If you happen to have a Trader Joe's nearby, they make their own, cheaper, version of Pirate's Booty.

lizziea06

Pirate's Booty are these rice and corn puffs flavored with white cheddar. Here is the link to the company:

http://www.robscape.com/

You can buy them at a lot grocery stores, and definitely Whole Foods. The serving size is huge, so you can eat a whole bunch and not feel bad!

snowrooster

There are lots of good points being made here. I've just been shocked as a mom of young kids who are just starting to eat w/friends how picky some of them are. Like one who won't eat yogurt unless it is the SPECIFIC brand of yogurt her mom buys. Another will ONLY drink apple juice. Another girl in my son's preschool class (where I volunteered once a month) refused the snack every single time - wouldn't even try ONE bit (drove the teachers crazy).

I do however have friends who are VERY picky eaters but are still willing to try things, so I guess it's not really all one or the other. I just hate to see young children being so close minded and developing bad habits that will likely stay w/them through life.

CAPH52

LOL, kswl!

No_name

LOVE pirates booty but the problem is it so good I will eat the whole bag!

snowrooster

Because WE aren't the ones whining!!! Do you really not have anything better to do w/your time? Why don't you try getting a job w/Fodor's so you can be in charge (as you clearly have a need to be). Until then, I think the Fodor's editors can make the call on what is or isn't appropriate without your assistance.

kswl

CAPH, it wasn't that funny at the time! You can imagine . . .

CAPH52

Actually, kswl, I though your whole post was funny!

But I can see that it wouldn't have been fun at the time! Where do kids come up with these ideas?!

travel_addict

Kswl - that's too funny. It reminds me of a phase my nephew went through where he would only eat foods that were white, yellow or brown and no other colors. Where do they get this from??