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Guess what? She will choose not to eat dinner at all rather than eat something as simple as a tomato or carrot. She won't even eat Mac-n-cheese. (Homemade or Annie's)

Does it bother me, sure. But she will grow out of it. She continues to be exposed to stuff and I'm confident that one day her palate will expand.

Stop judging parents and realize that some kids are just picky!

absc17 at 2:14PM on 07/29/08

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My brother and I thought that this was the best thing about the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum. I bought it a few years back for his birthday.

absc17 at 12:05PM on 04/04/08

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Serious Easter Artisanal Chocolate Egg Giveaway

Jellybeans stolen from my brother's Easter basket when I was 8!

absc17 at 11:39AM on 03/18/08

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Seriously Delicious Holiday Giveaway: Two Peter Luger Steaks

also the ribeye, medium rare

absc17 at 12:11PM on 12/14/07

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I do not have kids of my own, but I can speak for myself when I was a kid. Both my parents are from "old school" Europe, they eat all sorts of weird shit when I grew up and I ate it with them. It was when I got older that I got picky.

pjracz10 at 5:09PM on 08/03/08

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Eyeballs? Now that's a stretch I can't even picture. What adventurous kids! I have a 2 year old niece and I'd say she's pretty adventurous. She likes to try new things, the problem is my brother and sister-in-law only expose her to so much (not that that's a bad thing) but I think, if allowed, a kid will want to try whatever they can at such a young age!

Hillary
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Chew on That at 4:50PM on 07/30/08

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I think the thing I am most impressed about is that both of the girls will eat anything. My sister and I are close in age, (23 and 20), and while I was and still am happy to try anything, she was and still is always very very picky. My boyfriend's cousin's daughters are the same way. Their grandmother asks me all the time about restaurant recommendations so the older girl can have something basic but the younger can have an adventure. Be thankful that they aren't pulling you both ways! I want my kids to eat everything!

agk685 at 1:47PM on 07/30/08

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My 5-year-old son is a little on the picky side, partly because his time is shared between my house and his dad's house where, apparently, his stepmother is a terrible cook. But he has to at least try most things and his tastes are gradually expanding. The weird thing? I can convince him to try just about anything if I put lots of garlic in it.

buffy at 12:51AM on 07/30/08

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My niece is four and eats very well. She loves all manner of food. I cracked up when she discovered kimchi and wanted a bit of kimchi with every forkful of food. When we went out for pho, she tucked into her bowl, only coming up for air to declare, "it's good mom" her cheeks rosy from the steaming bowl of broth and noodles.
I had leftover grilled salmon one day and she dug into the "pink fish" with gusto...declaring I've never had pink fish before!
Tofu is "square chicken" but she prefers it in soon duboo jigae when it's all smooshed.
She'll request broccoli for dinner because as she puts it, "I feel a little too pink today." She loves salads, chomping on rings of red onion like they're candy. She eats all the veggies and then points out that Daddy doesn't like vegetables. At the grocery store, she'll see a pile of mangos or a display of strawberries and tell you how much she loves mangos or strawberries or grapes or watermelon or papaya or...you get the idea.
When she was smaller she went through a couple of food phases. First thing was refusing to eat anything green. Then it was refusing to eat anything that was "baby food." Then it was refusing to be fed, she wanted to feed herself...what a mess...and I really don't know if she was getting enought sustenance during her learning curve.
The only thing she can't have is peanuts and much to her Dad's discomfort she blithely tells people of the time she had to go to the emergency room because Dad bought her a PB&J from Panera. Passing any Panera will trigger the story.

Kids are funny and you never know what will occur to them.

wookie at 9:34PM on 07/29/08

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Mini Foodies

I don't think parents are the whole picture when it comes to creating picky eaters, but a kid with fewer food experiences may have more trouble adjusting to new foods. Even today, my FIL says that he "doesn't like" foods that he didn't have when he was growing up. He has branched out a tiny bit, but he's still very very cautious when exposed to something new. He expects to dislike it, instead of expecting to like it.

I like to think that I was an adventuous eater when I was a kid, but I can remember a moment where I decided I didn't like cheese, which I loved before. Someone gave me a taste of cheese, I didn't like it, and I decided that I disliked ALL cheese. Eventually, I got back to eating cheese.

Another time, I saw something on TV about birds hatching from eggs, and I went through a period where fried eggs creeped me out.

Seems to me there's something about how kids learn, where they go through different phases where they generalize things, then they discriminate. And it repeats. Over and over.

I was apparently stuck in the generalizing mode when I tried the yukky cheese. On the other hand, some kids might be stuck in the discriminating phase where they decide that they only thing they like is Skippy peanut butter on whole wheat with the crusts cut off.

Kids that generalize about things they like and discriminate about things they don't like are probably going to be more willing to try new stuff that kids who generalize about what they don't like and discriminate about what they do like.

dbcurrie at 5:41PM on 07/29/08

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Taylor is 10 and will eat damn near anything. Her fave was guacamole at 13 months. I ask that she only take one bite of something she thinks she hates and if she still hates it, okay. 90% of the time, she likes it.

I do not now, nor will I ever, condone idiot parents who only offer toddlers chicken fingers, fries and pb&j then bitch about it 3 years later because their kids are so picky. WHAT THE EFF? Reap what you sow.

ChelleyD01 at 5:08PM on 07/29/08

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@absc17 and embolini9: Until I was 5, I would eat anything put in front of me. My parents loved that I would eat what they would eat. Then, all of a sudden, I couldn't stand the texture of a lot of foods (bananas and yogurt especially). They kept trying to get me to eat like I used to, but, like abc's daughter, I would rather have gone hungry than eat. I grew out of it in my own time, but it is not always the parents.

pbisNOTmyname at 3:42PM on 07/29/08

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@absc17 - I agree, it's usually not the parents' fault. My mom always made me try everything once, and if I still didn't like it, she'd accomodate me from then on, making me a separate, not extravagent meal whenever my parents ate something I didn't like. I don't think that's too indulgent. I grew out of a lot of my pickiness, but there are some things, like fish, that I just can't touch. Everybody's tastes are different, and kids' palates just aren't usually as developed as adults'. If every parent of a picky eater were a "bad parent," we'd be overrun with bad parents.

embolini9 at 2:27PM on 07/29/08

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my nieces( 2 1/2 & 6 ) are similar. Their palates are varied and can even order for themselves in a Thai restaurant. (This shocked and awed me the first time I saw it!) Part of it is their mom's insistence on the fact that the girls try everything once and that they don't eat "kid foods" and are served what we are eating. This is wildly different than my BF's son (being raised by his former girlfriend & her family) Oh my goodness...all that boy will eat is boxed pastas, sweets & breads-anything else he spits out (sigh...me shaking head, making healthy food for him anyway when he visits, and praying he will grow out of it)

bisbee at 2:24PM on 07/29/08

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Ice Cream That's Out of This World

I took my mom to the Omni Theatre yesterday for Mother's Day, and I'm happy to report - the museum shop STILL SELLS astronaut ice cream! I was incredibly tempted to buy some, but settled for a rock candy pop instead.

embolini9 at 10:24AM on 05/12/08

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Ice Cream That's Out of This World

YES! This was totally the best part of the Museum of Science! I completely agree. I looked forward to the astronaut ice cream so much. My dad also ws very disappointed in my science acumen.

selizara at 10:38PM on 04/04/08

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Ice Cream That's Out of This World

Oooooo...I totally forgot about that stuff! It was the highlight of our 5th grade trip to Smithsonian Air & Space Museum. It was almost at urban legend status for all of us on the way (think Greyhound bus with 40 5th graders driving from Nashville to Washington D.C.).

I wonder if they sell it at Kennedy Space Center?

jcrisco at 2:37PM on 04/04/08

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Ice Cream That's Out of This World

Since I went to Space Academy Levels 1 and 2, (space camp for older kids). I too, enjoy the astronaut ice cream! They usually sell it at places like REI and other camping stores if people are really craving it!

They even make a version of it (with I think less sugar) for dogs!

bobcatsteph3 at 1:35PM on 04/04/08

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Ice Cream That's Out of This World

For those of you in the New York City area, you can get your immediate fix of astronaut food at Mars 2002, where my almost five year old just received his first sampling. He was probably as thrilled as you were when you were seven.. Killjoy that i am, I had to read all of the awful articial ingredients in the package and only allow him to eat a small amount.
http://izzyeats.blogspot.com/2008/02/truly-alien-universe-izzy-attends-party.html

izzy's mama at 1:28PM on 04/04/08

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Oh my goodness, I totally did the same thing at the Space Museum...I LOVED that stuff! It's been years...maybe I should copy you and order some online.

Hillary
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Chew on That at 12:36PM on 04/04/08

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Ice Cream That's Out of This World

How funny! I was just talking about the museum of science and my love of the astronaut's freeze dried ice cream to my boyfriend! I'm stuck in Atlanta these days and I was going on and on about how much I miss Boston (for a variety of reasons). That stuff was great to suck on, I loved the weird texture and the flavor was great. My parents never understood what I saw in it though. :-)

sylphon at 12:20PM on 04/04/08

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damn, I was so excited to get some astronaut ice cream from this site and try and see how disgusting the chicken and beef dinners probably are =D but minimum $15 for shipping! I'll just go to the Natural History Museum in Manhattan, they've got the ice cream hookup there. Or maybe I can get people to chip in...

methodp at 12:19PM on 04/04/08

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