It's getting tough out there. Feeling the pinch?

Floss

YoungBlueEyes said:

Yep @Bluegreen143 sometimes these things are about how you approach them.

A few years ago I was at a different cousin's house, and his wee son (6 yo) was having a fit about not want to eat the sweetcorn his mum was prepping for dinner. So I took a cob and we sat and dismantled it. He reckoned they looked like the boils grandad's got on his ears. Me - well a whole one like this is called an ear so you're absolutely right. Him - so these are ear boils! Me - Yes they are!

Later on we're sat next to each other eating dinner he's nudging them round the plate, I squished some of mine (he's carefully watching) and ate a forkful. He suddenly shrieks "urgh you're eating ear boil pus!" Yeah I am, bet you daren't eat some too. And he did. Urgh you're eating ear boil pus too! No I'm not! Yes you did I saw you! And he's squealing with laughter. Problem solved.

Nobody else had a clue what we were on about! 

I know 2 30-something men who still call cauliflower & brocoli clouds & trees - when small they wouldn't eat it when given the proper names!

tooldle

Some people are really fighting against difficult odds particularly those who are neurodiverse

newlywed

We were brought up with… if you haven’t tried it then you can’t say you don’t like it.

seems pretty fair to me.

Every now and again we were prompted to just try it this time…tastes change.

used to hate aubergine in my teens but will happily eat it now

Floss

newlywed said:

…tastes change.

used to hate aubergine in my teens but will happily eat it now

I agree - I hated gin when first going out aged 17/18, but love it now! And back then I used to drink brandy & Babycham or sweet white wine 🤮

Pollycat

Floss said:

newlywed said:

…tastes change.

used to hate aubergine in my teens but will happily eat it now

I agree - I hated gin when first going out aged 17/18, but love it now! And back then I used to drink brandy & Babycham or sweet white wine 🤮

Blue Nun?
And Mateus rose.
🤮 indeed.

I too was brought up to eat what was put in front of me.
I think the only thing I didn't like was pearl barley. Even now I can smell it if it's in a soup that OH is eating (usually broth).

KxMx

My Mum always asked me and my brother to try things- if we didn't like it then we weren't expected to eat it/ get given it again, but we were expected to try.

My grandparents unfortunately had the attitude of their children had to clear their plates. Then turned around and put my Mum on a diet at age 5! Which led her to have a lifelong problem with food, she is obese, as her siblings are. While I understand why she has ended up the way she has, she takes no responsibility and has no willingness to make changes. Even as a type 2 diabetic she eats quite unhealthily in my opinion even taking into account another conflicting illness that she has.

I'm in my 30's and very proud that i've broken away from those habits and attitudes with regular exercise (despite health problems) and a 5 stone weight loss over the past several years. It comes off slow with me but it comes off and stays off because I have adopted better habits and healthier foods. I am aiming to lose another 2.2 stone.

Sadly with the cost of living it gets harder for people/parents/children to have a healthy diet which just stores up problems (and NHS expense) for the future. But with things so tight for many I completely understand the choices they are forced to make.

Bluegreen143

Interesting experiences all. I do agree DS and DD have very different tastes - DS is great with all snacks, fruit, salad veg, treats, breakfasts, cold lunches, wraps, burgers etc but funny with potatoes and more traditional meals. DD is great with stew/curry/risotto type meals but rubbish with sandwiches, salad or fruit. Even for breakfast she prefers porridge, DS prefers toast.

Toonie

When I was young I hated vegetables, would only eat carrots, cucumber and tomatoes. Nothing else. But there was a reason. My Mum used to boil the life out of things! Tinned peas and carrots would be cooked for over half an hour on a rolling boil. One Christmas, my Mum put the swede on to cook at the same time as the turkey "to make sure it would be done". As an adult I eat a lot of veg, but I only like it very lightly simmered or raw. The other problem I had as a child (which was worked out in adulthood) was food intolerances. Every time my Mum made goulash I would become really ill to the point that I utterly refused to eat it and so would just eat boiled potatoes when everyone else had goulash and potatoes. In later life I worked out it was the mushrooms which made me violently ill. I can't eat anything in the allium family either. As a child I couldn't explain it but I could say no to food. I wouldn't be given anything else.

However, because of of all those things I have learnt to cook, and I really enjoy it. You have to be creative when most recipes start with "take onion/garlic/etc". And learning to cook and discovering foods I enjoyed (but cooked differently to my Mum) means today I get to make my roast dinner leftovers into bubble and squeak for lunch and serve it with a friend egg.

RobM99

I know 2 30-something men who still call cauliflower & brocoli clouds & trees - when small they wouldn't eat it when given the proper names!

Well, in Rob Towers with Chinese food I have mice or poodles!

Elisheba

Toonie said:

When I was young I hated vegetables, would only eat carrots, cucumber and tomatoes. Nothing else. But there was a reason. My Mum used to boil the life out of things! Tinned peas and carrots would be cooked for over half an hour on a rolling boil. One Christmas, my Mum put the swede on to cook at the same time as the turkey "to make sure it would be done". 

I'm laughing my head off at this!  

I think this was an old fashioned thing, over cooking vegetables.  Mrs Beeton's original book has you cooking tomatoes for an hour or two iirc!  My Gran also would overcook veggies.  I think there may have been a myth about them being difficult to digest otherwise, although a lot of the wartime cookery books I have copies of do say not to overcook them, so I don't know for sure.