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Food and eating what's put in front of you

TheCatWoman

When I was a child you ate what was put in front of you, if you were lucky there wouldn't be to much that you didn't like or you found ways to get around it, like, I'd eat my brussels sprouts first so as I'd have the rest of the dinner to take the taste away. This was a common experience for my age group growing up, there wasn't much in the way of convienience food, fish finger and sausages, but pretty much everything else had to be cooked from scratch.

Jump forward 20 years and there was loads more convienence foods and people not only didn't cook much, but allowed children to choose what food they'd eat and the parents would get in a terrible flap when the children wouldn't eat. I tried this for a bit with my kids and then got fed up and allowed them to each choose 5 things they really didn't like and I wouldn't serve them, but everything else they had to eat and new things were up for disucssion.

Jump forward another 20 years and I was often told that I was cruel for not allowing my children to eat what they wanted when they wanted and for making them sit at the table. But they really enjoyed sitting at the table, they enjoued real vegetables and real food. After my son came home of rxmas after his first uni term, he was disgusted that there were people older than him who would only eat pizza and breakfast cereal and drink coke.

I know htat for many ND food is difficult, things taste and feel different to us and many of us want a beige diet. But do you feel that you would of been better off if youd' been made to eat what was in front of you or be hungry until you were served something you did like. Hwo do your childhood experiences of food and eating effect you now? DO you eat a wide range of foods or are youn very selective?

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  • As a child I was very picky with food and up to about eight years of age I was not really interested in eating at all, there seemed much more interesting things to do than sit at a table eating. Even now I can switch off my appetite completely if I want to. I have gone up to seven days without solid food (this was during flare ups of diverticular disease) with no real problems concerning craving food.

    In later childhood and my teenage years I became much more interested in food and more open to eating a wide range of different types of food. Now I eat a wide variety and will generally eat things, like carrots, that I am not very keen on. I make a lot of curries from scratch, especially South Indian curries like rasam. I tend to like dishes with a sauce, I'm less keen on plainer foods like steak or Sunday roast. I like fish and seafood, but again I will tend to make a sauce to go with the fish. I recently did halibut fillet poached in white wine, with samphire and a white wine sauce flavoured with anise.

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  • As a child I was very picky with food and up to about eight years of age I was not really interested in eating at all, there seemed much more interesting things to do than sit at a table eating. Even now I can switch off my appetite completely if I want to. I have gone up to seven days without solid food (this was during flare ups of diverticular disease) with no real problems concerning craving food.

    In later childhood and my teenage years I became much more interested in food and more open to eating a wide range of different types of food. Now I eat a wide variety and will generally eat things, like carrots, that I am not very keen on. I make a lot of curries from scratch, especially South Indian curries like rasam. I tend to like dishes with a sauce, I'm less keen on plainer foods like steak or Sunday roast. I like fish and seafood, but again I will tend to make a sauce to go with the fish. I recently did halibut fillet poached in white wine, with samphire and a white wine sauce flavoured with anise.

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