Are you a picky eater?

once my 4 year old grandson announced that he was hungry, after doing battle with him about eating his lunch (he's a VERY picky eater...drives us crazy) ... so, after much whining from him, I said, eat a banana if you're hungry.. he said in that same whining voice "but I don't want a banana".. I said "tough, it's a banana or go hungry"...2 minutes later, he appeared, eating a banana...LOL

@booboo: I'm raising a boy who is now 9 years old and really picky, too. Fortunately he will eat many types of fruits and simple things like sandwiches. His problem is that he doesn't like most of the main and side dishes that I make, he did this to someone else to before he came here. He likes desserts and I made peach dumplings after he asked me to (I showed him a photo) and then he tried pulling the peaches out saying he wished they were apples....he eats peaches so it irritated me. I think the child was spoiled by his great-grandma and he mostly wants things like chicken nuggets or strips (doesn't want to eat chicken with bones in it), sandwiches, mac & cheese, crackers & other processed foods.

@cherokeepatti: geez Patti, that sounds like my grandkids!! I don't recall my kids ever complaining or picking at their food..we said, "this is what you get, like it or not"..."if you don't like it, you go hungry"

@cherokeepatti: we have to bribe or grandkids to eat what we fix them .... "eat your dinner and you can have some ice cream or m&m's" ... sheesh, it's ridiculous... and when we are at their house, the mom and dad are always asking what the kids want, like the kids in charge instead of the parents!!! That aggravates me to no end..they are raising narcissistic kids...i pity the next generation of adults...

@booboo: same when I was growing up and same with my daughter. I had a garden when my daughter was young and she ate everything but the hot peppers out of that garden. She would sit in her high chair and beg for more spinach. I don't think she ever met a veggie she didn't like, and she had some babysitters from other countries who would serve her artichokes and Brussels sprouts and she'd tell me how they cooked them and I'd make them at home. I just think it's how they are being raised now, I am telling this boy that eventually he's going to have to grow up and not be babied and when I make a meal he's going to try the food, at least try it and not screw his face up. Sometimes he makes a face before he even tastes something. And at school they don't have the same type of meals we had, we were given one more and no alternatives, they have three things to choose from and they can choose their own sides. That may be part of the problem there.

@cherokeepatti: yeah, they put the kid in charge way too much...

@booboo: His older sister is picky too, they'll want to go to a certain restaurant like Outback and then order chicken strips. The boy threw up as soon as we got out of the door. His great-grandmother said he had done it at other restaurants too.

And narcissist is right.

@cherokeepatti: SMH...you've got your work cut out for you Patti 😱

@booboo: I hate to see a day when there's a shortage of food here and people eat what they can find to eat, there's going to be a rude awakening. I wish all these kids would spend an entire summer on a farm growing or picking their own food.