Rhetorical question in the title, of course 😁 Share your stories, please, about how your child real…

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Rhetorical question in the title, of course 😁 Share your stories, please, about how your child really struggled to eat until a certain age, and then suddenly started!) In the last year, things haven't been too bad: he's started trying cutlets (but only if I spread them with ketchup 😁), eats pork shashlik, and sometimes nibbles on chicken schnitzel. Goulash, roasts, sauces like bolognese, and chicken, fried or baked – all a no-go. He only accepts white fish fillet in batter, and even then, only occasionally. Soups only with croutons, but that's not a problem – I'm always drying them, so they're always at home. If you ask him what he wants, 95% of the time it's sausages with pasta. This situation just got me thinking while he was at kindergarten: the kids were cutting their own food during speech therapy and then eating vinaigrette. All the children loved it, and they sent photos. My son was thrilled and will be cooking at home tomorrow too. But he won't eat it 😂 We agreed on one spoonful, and then – if he likes it. But I'm sure it won't go further 🤷🏼️
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Tanya
I just cook different things all the time and offer them. There have been times (and still are) when the kids refuse to eat certain foods. Like meat. But that doesn't mean I stop cooking it. Just yesterday, my son decided to try pumpkin for the first time. He ate half a piece. Said it was sweet and tasty, but he was full. Before that, he wouldn't even try it.
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Novikova Veronika
Tanya So today I was cutting myself a salad with napa cabbage and cucumber. He eats cucumbers. They gave homework at kindergarten on the theme of "vegetables," and inspired by that, I told him, "Go look at this crunchy, juicy cabbage, try it with a cucumber." He looked, sniffed, tried a spoonful—said it was cool and crunchy, but he wouldn't eat it because it's cabbage 😂
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Tanya
Tanya Oh well. It won't happen now. Later, a piece will turn up somewhere and they'll eat it. I usually cut vegetables into pieces and leave them on the table. Kids grab them as a snack. Like carrots, cabbage, celery. And cooking together is super! The child sees what the food looks like and what needs to be done with it. And they get used to daily life.
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Lyudmila
Does she eat well in the garden or is she still picky?
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Novikova Veronika
Tanya Yeah, he likes to help me cook, but I don't always have time for it. I always want to get things done faster, and if I bring him along, the little one is right there too, and everything turns into chaos)) But sometimes I try to make time.
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Tanya
Tanya I get it 😁. What can you do? Sometimes, let the chaos be. But it's exactly what the kids need right now. It won't be relevant later.
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Novikova Veronika
Lyudmila It's the same at daycare. For example, if he doesn't eat a casserole at home, he won't eat it at daycare either. The only exception is some porridges – he eats them at daycare, but none at home.
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Marina
We've started eating ostrich, camel, and Scandinavian duck... 🤣🤣🤣 It's the only way we can get him to eat anything besides potatoes (and pasta, any kind, is out lately) and hot dogs! Oh, and after fishing, the only soup he eats with pleasure and even asks for is kulesh.
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Novikova Veronika
Marina I don't think he'll fall for exotic animals 😂 but I'll try)
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Novikova Veronika
Marina I Googled 'kulesh' but didn't find anything with fish. How do you make it, what's in your soup?
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Olga Makarova
Sausages are one thing, but usually, they only ask for side dishes 😂 My kids are vegetarians. I don't push it too much, but every now and then, they'll eat something with meat. I usually try to make soup with a meat broth. As for unusual preferences, my daughter started eating olives by the time she was 8! I only started liking them myself at 25)
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Marina
Marina The main thing is to present it deliciously and as a rare treat!) That's how I was fed 25 years ago. I was staying at my grandpa's, and he woke me up in the morning saying, "Little one, I ran to the market and snagged the last piece of shark meat. I cooked it, let's eat now, or we might never get to try it again." So there I was, eating this shark meat, and it was so delicious to me, until the moment the neighbor came over and asked grandpa if he had already stewed the udder 🤣
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Marina
Marina This is a hiking soup made with stewed meat, millet, onion, and carrots (if available)
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Novikova Veronika
Olga Makarova I've been through the plain food stage too. I couldn't even look at it, like, what kind of food is that? 😂 Sometimes he'd ask for a cucumber with his rice, and for the whole day, the only food might be that rice with cucumber and plain pasta.
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