What about eating issues?

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What about eating issues?
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Fri, 06-10-2005 - 2:24pm

We have debated sleeping issues to death once again....so what about another one of the issues of childhood....eating and/or not eating?


My kids eat just about anything and have a pretty well rounded diet.

PumpkinAngel

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Thu, 06-16-2005 - 8:23am
Trying to make sure there is adequate nice food for all parties, on the one menu plan, is difficult enough. Trying to make sure there is more than one menu plan - forget it. Thats what restaurants are for. At a dinner party, ensuring there is adequate food for all parties attending, in terms of these extreme individual food prefs, ammounts to more than one main course. I'm sorry, but any vegetarian can make do, I'm sure, without the meat component. Most times in my home, thats the main course. But I'd much rather he had a main course and he can provide it himself. I won't be doing it, just for him. And the stricter the preferences, the less likely the person is to find anything he/she can eat on my table. I once heard of someone who actually made up little labels for every dish, so everyone would know what was in them. No. Way.
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Thu, 06-16-2005 - 8:25am
Equally rare would be having a guest who is unable or unwilling, for medical or personal reasons, to eat anything but animal protein.
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Thu, 06-16-2005 - 8:28am
Actually, I think its more like you are preaching to the chior and even the chior isn't buying it.
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Thu, 06-16-2005 - 8:31am
Your panic and stress strategy is going to do more to predispose your family towards achieving hypertension and other stress related conditions than it is to avoid other things.
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Thu, 06-16-2005 - 8:34am

I'm sure the potatoes are different. And your point would be - what? That you can't live on them for years. Sure you can. But you have to eat the peels. Always did. Is that what you are debating? You DO need the peels.

Now, what was the average age attained by the Irish who lived on nothing but potatoes for years?

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Registered: 07-20-2004
Thu, 06-16-2005 - 8:38am

Well....the obvious response must be....do YOU cook?

Karen

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Thu, 06-16-2005 - 8:43am

It would be the height of folly for me to try to cook according to someone else's native cuisine. No one is suggesting that. I'm not sure why a Jewish guest in your home would have to have "birthday guest status" for you not to pick that particular night for your clambake.

"I wonder what people think is required of a good guest?" Politeness, just as is required for a good host. And that doesn't mean eating something against your dietary laws or principles, or something just gross to you, just because it's on the table, any more than having a vegetarian guest means that a family ought serve ALL vegetarian items. Politeness MAY mean having brought something you can eat along to supplement what your host has if your requirements are remotely hard to meet. Most aren't.

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Thu, 06-16-2005 - 8:52am
Nothing impolite at all about having a guest over and all going out for dinner. Edited to add that it would still be a bit odd to take a vegan to Morton's and it was a faux pas for one of my husband's former employers to have taken a Nigerian guest to an Ethiopian restaurant - the fellow correctly picked up on the assumption that had been made that Africa is monolithic in its cuisine.) Very impolite to have ONE guest over, whose dietary requirements are well known, and serve only foods that you know he isn't going to eat.


Edited 6/16/2005 9:47 am ET ET by dogma_2
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Thu, 06-16-2005 - 9:40am

So wait. Where are we. Do they have super sensitive tastebuds that are physiologically able to pick up more information the the average taste bud, and transmit that info to the brain, or do their brains process the same info any other brain gets from pretty much the same tastebud output - differntly? Or are you now suggesting a genetic link between brain adaptability and taste bud sensitivity? And where would this leave the extremely inflexible nonetheless food trotting fiend, pnj?

You know of course people have tastebuds and brains that very in terms of performance. The fact is not intersting. The point is, if the differenc were so critical that it justified an adult refusing to eat specific kinds of foods, legions of kids would starve to death when they ended up in like an asian culture that didn't cater to their predisposition to north american cuisine. Quite clearly - what is preferred in terms of taste, texture or anything else develops in response to what is offered early in life. And the ease with which what is accepted from the new, is accepted, is determined by the motivating factors. You'd eat just about anything, and without gagging, if you were starving. At any age. Short of that, as an adult, you get to choose whether or not you will apply other motivating factors for yourself, or not. Such as a desire to eat in a healthy way, or a desire to be able to fully enjoy a wider variety of social events invovling food. You decide to what extent you will be stressed by new food. Young kids not so much. That poison instinct. As an adult - you are past it. If you aren't past it, you do have some sort of phobia or disorder.

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Thu, 06-16-2005 - 10:05am

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