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[Caren Kirk <quirky@videotron.ca>]

Ginda,

 

My first son would eat anything when he was young and had to; he had extreme food allergies.  For his second birthday, he had zucchini cookies, olives and a mixed berry summer pudding for his cake! Over the last 2 years he got steadily fussier and fussier. He's going to be 7 this summer and I can't wait for it to end!  Luckily I've got 2 other sons, so what he won't eat the others usually will!  Or I guess until they reach the age of 5!!

 

Caren

Quebec

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From: Ginda Fisher

To: North American Fruit Explorers

Sent: Saturday, April 04, 2009 7:27 AM

Subject: Re: [NAFEX] picky eaters

In my experience kids will eat anything at age 2 or 3, but get very suspicious of new foods, and picky about foods in general at about age 5.  Mine went to nursery school (and ate lunch there), so that wasn't when they started school.  

I suspect that back in hunter-gatherer days, five-year-olds were old enough to wander off on their own, but not old enough to have learned what is safe to eat, so a built-in suspicion of anything unfamiliar or strongly flavored was a good thing.

We made a joke of it and said that five-year-olds are allowed to be picky eaters, but at six they have to start tasting everything we served again.  That worked very well - both teens have some food dislikes, but both are willing to try new things and neither is a picky eater.  In particular, both are happy to try new fruits, and graze from my garden.  But there must be something wrong with my son - he doesn't like raspberries!

Ginda

On Apr 4, 2009, at 12:19 AM, Naomi Counides wrote:

I was once told that children will be adventurous eaters (if that is the home situation) till they go to school.  That was my experience with my son.  Tough at 3 he rejected a raw mushroom.  But generally.. anything.  Then school and he wanted tater tots and corn dogs.  However when he was 12 we sent him to visit with my sister in Boston.  He came back a food “sophisticate” and interested in adventure again.

Naomi

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From: nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Kieran &/or Donna
Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 10:02 PM
To: North American Fruit Explorers
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] free fruit

I used to take a half gallon of cherry tomatoes to work where the 3-4 young women who worked with me would demolish them by 5 pm.  A time or two I took in strawberries and the same thing happened.   But where I work now, the owner and her mother don't like raw tomatoes and another employee doesn't like cherry tomatoes, and the other 3 don't seem interested.  I sure didn't have any trouble giving away Ayers pears last year!  So it varies.  But my experience verifies one comment, that children will eat fruit and leaves and veggies, especially outdoors if either encouraged or simply allowed.  Many parents who have lost all sense of adventure and especially any link to their own body's wants and needs will prevent or at least fail to encourage children to eat natural foods.  I think it was Dr. Jarvis, the famous Vermont dr who listed some 30 kinds of leaves, many of them tree leaves, eaten by local children who learned it from older children who probably learned it from native children.  Donna

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