Not quite sure what you were hoping to accomplish with this comment. My kid mainly eats broccoli, tomatoes, berries, rice, eggs, carrots, tofu, beets, beans, fish, and spinach. We’ve recently convinced him to eat french fries, chicken nuggets, pepperoni, and noodles. We knew pickiness was possible so we very carefully chose which foods to expose him to from a very young age so his default comfort zone was healthy food. If he has trouble trying new french fries I think it’s reasonable to accept that he has a legitimate aversion that he doesn’t control.
I’d also think the fact that the new food isn’t ‘healthy’ is also a double whammy.
Being forced to eat your spinnach sucks because its NOT fatty and delicious.
Eating new unhealthy food when you dont want to Sucks because it can mentally feel like you’re poisoning yourself AND you don’t want to.
Honestly the win is getting your kid to try new things. No problem if they really dont like it and they are eating healthily. Becoming an adult is being able to eat all food as sustenance and not just pleasure. They’re a kid. No way they can understand that.
Instead focus on the lesson that trying new things can ‘suck’ and having a ‘bad’ outcome after trying something new is entirely acceptable (within bounds)
Not quite sure what you were hoping to accomplish with this comment. My kid mainly eats broccoli, tomatoes, berries, rice, eggs, carrots, tofu, beets, beans, fish, and spinach. We’ve recently convinced him to eat french fries, chicken nuggets, pepperoni, and noodles. We knew pickiness was possible so we very carefully chose which foods to expose him to from a very young age so his default comfort zone was healthy food. If he has trouble trying new french fries I think it’s reasonable to accept that he has a legitimate aversion that he doesn’t control.
I’d also think the fact that the new food isn’t ‘healthy’ is also a double whammy.
Being forced to eat your spinnach sucks because its NOT fatty and delicious.
Eating new unhealthy food when you dont want to Sucks because it can mentally feel like you’re poisoning yourself AND you don’t want to.
Honestly the win is getting your kid to try new things. No problem if they really dont like it and they are eating healthily. Becoming an adult is being able to eat all food as sustenance and not just pleasure. They’re a kid. No way they can understand that.
Instead focus on the lesson that trying new things can ‘suck’ and having a ‘bad’ outcome after trying something new is entirely acceptable (within bounds)