My kids are like this as well. One will eat anything with pasta and the other two act like I am making them eat something mysterious if I serve spaghetti, chicken casserole, or anything with pasta. They would rather eat a sandwich. I make them wait until everyone else has been served and then they can make their own dinner. It makes me crazy!

Daughter will eat anything but son can be quite fussy. And neither will eat peanut butter and jelly sandwiches! Go figure.

My 11 year old son is a picky eater. More precisely, he only likes processed food. it is discouraging. I serve him the same dinner as the rest of the family, and after we eat, if he did not like what we had, he is free to fix something else, usually pnut butter and jelly or ham sandwiches. Luckily, he will eat some select veggies and most fruit, so i always make sure to serve a fresh fruit and either steamed brocolli or raw baby carrots with every meal. In mt defence, I would like to state that he has been raised in the same house with his older sister, who eats any and every thing served to her and then gets seconds. Go figure...

"What's that, you don't want to eat that? Are you allergic? No? Religious reasons? No? Anything other than being a prat? No? Damn, sucks to be you, just sit there and watch.

I always go with this story... "Gee, you don't like it? It was your favorite when you were a baby!"

I know I was a picky eater when I was young, but tastes change and expand as you get older. But I definitely wasn't catered to.

12 is too old for that kind of behavior, and who in their right mind doesn't like spaghetti? I say--deal with it, kid!

We're pretty strict about meals around here. You eat what you're served,and you have 30 minutes to do so. You don't get "something else" if you don't like/want it, you wait until the next meal,and you won't be having any snacks either. Growl!

My kids live on chic nuggets and mac and cheese-
I basically just gave up trying-
However, they do eat pretty decent when we go to restuarants-
Just hoping they will develop better tastes as they age- especially since their father and I love to cook!

I didn't eat mustard or mayonaise until I was in my mid 20s (wish I had never tried mayo), so I don't complain much. I have found that visitors to our house will eat almost anything; my child is the picky one. He has gotten better and eats almost anything I cook now, mainly because I cook about twice a week. I think I created that monster, so I figure I have gotten what I deserve. I just look back to what I wouldn't eat until well into adulthood and then quit obsessing over it.

I've got one (male) that eats anything not nailed down. He's incredible... a living hoover. However, his twin sister is beyond picky. She has odd tastes and she's stuck with them for 14 years so I don't think she's going to change anytime soon. Pasta without sauce, if you please. Hot dogs and hamburgers... they are poison. Anything with sauce... way to scary to even try. But she'll eat any fruit or veggie, sushi, rice pilaf, steak, chicken, and even fish. Not all fish, but enough that I can claim she'll eat fish. This year, post bat mitzvah and now able to make her own kosher or no kosher choices, she's learned the joy of scallops and shrimp. We don't have it in the house, but she likes it. She'll eat vietnamese, thai, and chinese because they have lots of veggies. But she WILL NOT eat italian anything (OK, she eats pizza plain, nothing on it) because it has the dreaded sauce.

She cooks herself, so if she doesn't like somethng I make, she's capable of getting something else to eat. My feeling is, she's going to be a REALLY cheap date because the only restaurant food she orders are ceasar salads and grilled cheese. Oh well.

I have two girls that are REALLY picky. My oldest is 6 and when she was three she was more veg than anything, in fact we'd gotten her chicken nuggets on a road trip and I kept hearing her chirp in the back. Later discovered she was letting them fly out of the car so she wouldn't have to kill them. Today, she eats ribs, discovered them last month.
My youngest is 3 and she won't eat hot dogs at all. It doesn't matter if it has stuff on it, in a bun or not in a bun. They won't get ate. She loves fruit though.
My son, probably because we lived on this when he was younger. Cannot stand top ramon.
Myself, I can't drink kool-aid and have never been able to since I was four.

However, when I make a meal EVERYONE must eat.

*sigh* this is a path we seem so destined to go down. My daughter eats Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwiches, Pizza and Baked Chicken Nuggets and that is about it.

She loves all kinds of fruit and stuff like that and is willing to try anything like that, but "food" is a battle.

Yeah, I've blogged about this topic before it was driving me so crazy. It's a little better now, but they still won't eat fruit (other than pears) and any vegetables other than french fries. And ketchup, if that counts. (It doesn't count.)

I am from the take it or leave faction. No you do not get to go make something else later! There is a little something called manners and respect that goes along with having someone make your food for you. My kids can be picky and complain sometimes but if they really don't want to eat it, they will be hungry and they have been drilled up and down about *always* eating what is served at someone else's house! Rhianna has a little friend who hardly touches what I make for him. I get really frustrated with that especially when they do sit there and expect you to make something else! He isn't invited over for dinner anymore. Period! (whip crack!)*

At the Near Year's Eve potluck we went to yesterday, everybody was more concerned about my four-year-old not eating than I was! They kept wanting to get him something "special." My philosophy is, I'll offer you two things you can eat and if you don't want it, then you must not be that hungry.

They'll eat when they're hungry. No use trying to provide everything under the sun when they're not because they'll take 2 bites and say no more. Unless it's candy or other junk, of course! ARGH.

Oops. Still hungover. Should be New not Near. d'oh

Basically nothing noteworthy happening right now, but eh. Today was a complete loss. I haven't been up to much recently. I've pretty much been doing nothing worth mentioning.