Fussy eating habits............?!
Fussy eating habits............?
Hi I would just like to know is there anyone out there who knows where you can go for help if you're a fussy eater. I've only eaten 4 different meals for dinner and tea since I was two.
People say I need help, but I don't know what to do. Has anyone else been in the same situation??
Thank you very much in advance xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
And no stupid answers please x
Answers:
Are you relatively healthy (not obese or overweight?) Does your doctor say that you look fine? Then don't worry. Stick to what you like to eat.
get a life and try other food there are millions of children who would love to eat anything and drink clean water.
Volunteer for feed the children
do an intern to Darfur or any place in Africa as a cook.
two days of starving will allow you to eat so many bugs and local "food"
No more fussy.
How old r u? What r the meals that u only eat? how about seafood, can't go wrong w/a broiled seafood platter.
How old are you? part of the problem rests on your parents who for whatever reason only fed you 4 different meals for dinner....Now it is up to you....you don't need help yet. what you need to do is just try new things....I grew up in a meat and potatoes kind of environment and was a bit older before I was able to try other foods....now my favorite foods are Chinese, Indian, Mexican just to name a few.....
Trying something new is never easy, but you can do it if you really want to. There are so many interesting and delicious foods out there!
Why not test the water by gradually adding to or changing what you eat. For example, if you lived on Cheddar, Chips and Cadburys Dairy Milk, you could try different types of cheese like Red Leicester etc and get a bit more adventurous as time goes on. Or try different vegetables starting with potatoes in different forms eg roasted, boiled, mashed and working up to Sweet potatoes and on to other veg. Even going from Dairy Milk to Mars Bars would be a step forward...
Maybe you could have a "food of the week/month" that you try in various forms, over a set period of time and when you find one you like, you keep it in your diet and keep on trying other stuff. Taking the Chips example, you could have a week of cooking sweet potatoes in different ways either replacing or alongside the ordinary potatoes once you'd got used to them in different forms, then go for parsnips and other root veg before branching out, as it were, into squashes, sweetcorn and even greens. If you've spent a week trying to like mushrooms and still don't whether they're fried in garlic butter
or boiled in water or anything in between, move on to the next thing for a week and perhaps come back to mushrooms further down the line if you come across a recipe that looks interesting.
In your case, you could also depending on exactly what you eat try breaking the ice by using the same ingredients in other ways. If your standard lunch is cheese sandwiches, and dinner is ham salad, why not have Cheese on toast, or Croque Monsieur (cooked cheese and ham sandwich - tastes better than it sounds!)? You could also swap and have ham (salad) sandwich for lunch and cheese and biscuits with salad on the side for dinner.
Introduce snacks into your diet. I'm not saying you should force yourself to wolf down handfuls of chocolate and crisps, but maybe if you keep a pot of fresh fruit, or dried fruit, nut and seed mix on your desk to dip into you can find bits you like and start adding them into the stuff you eat at home.
Sometimes a change in environment makes it less threatening to try something new. I do voluntary work with 10-14 year olds, and when we go on a residential trip we get whole lists from their parents of things they don't eat at home, but you'd be amazed what they'll try if it's put in front of them. Why not go on a half-board holiday or weekend break and try new stuff while you're away. Staying with a friend or relative is another option but might be more stressful if they think they're "helping" by not letting you go at your own pace.
On a smaller scale now summer's ?here?, how about adding veggie sticks with or without dip to your lunchbox, maybe swapping that sandwich for a wrap, pitta bread, pasty or sausage roll and having a mini-picnic on a park bench? Or "accidentally" leave your lunch somewhere and buy something interesting from your local sandwich shop.
So long as you're healthy and happy it's up to you what you eat. But with all that stuff out there to taste, why not give it a go? You won't lose anything by it except the odd inhibition here and there.
Best of luck!