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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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  • When I was a child there was no distinction between childrens foods and adults food, children just ate a smaller portion of adult foods. Where does this idea that children should eat "special" foods come from?

    I'm not a fan of dry dinners either, or bland things like roasts. I love Indian food and food of the Levant, but not Chinese or South East Asian, theres just something about it that puts me off, people keep trying to take me to "good" restuarants in an attempt to get me to like it and I just don't. I think with a lot of it the flavour just seems to sit on top or the food and theres no depth to the flavours.

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    TheCatWoman said:
    Where does this idea that children should eat "special" foods come from?

    Where? Companies marketing products that solve problems that never existed, often as a way to promote the brand, rather than the products.

    A good example is "follow-on milk" aimed at children over 1 year old. The reason it exists is that many jurisdictions prohibit the advertising of infant milk formula, but 1-year-olds are not considered infants. The company gets to put their name in front of parents who may have infant children, as the advertising sidesteps the law. The product itself is completely unnecessary. The company probably don't even care if the product makes a profit.

    All these 0.0% beers are a similar ruse. We've had those beers under different brand names since forever, but only now, with limitations on advertising alcoholic drinks, do we start to see the big alcoholic brand names used to promote the non-alcoholic products. Again, the companies don't care how unsuccessful these products are, as long as they get to put out their name and sidestep the law.

    A major restriction on the promotion of junk food will see big brands start to promote some healthy foods under their own name, just to remind everyone that their junk food is still available.

    God, I've become so cynical in my old age!

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    TheCatWoman said:
    Where does this idea that children should eat "special" foods come from?

    Where? Companies marketing products that solve problems that never existed, often as a way to promote the brand, rather than the products.

    A good example is "follow-on milk" aimed at children over 1 year old. The reason it exists is that many jurisdictions prohibit the advertising of infant milk formula, but 1-year-olds are not considered infants. The company gets to put their name in front of parents who may have infant children, as the advertising sidesteps the law. The product itself is completely unnecessary. The company probably don't even care if the product makes a profit.

    All these 0.0% beers are a similar ruse. We've had those beers under different brand names since forever, but only now, with limitations on advertising alcoholic drinks, do we start to see the big alcoholic brand names used to promote the non-alcoholic products. Again, the companies don't care how unsuccessful these products are, as long as they get to put out their name and sidestep the law.

    A major restriction on the promotion of junk food will see big brands start to promote some healthy foods under their own name, just to remind everyone that their junk food is still available.

    God, I've become so cynical in my old age!

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