Comments on: Eating Our Words: Our Attempts to Raise Foodie Kids

By: Jody

Jody — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:44:38 +0000

This sounds disturbingly familiar- except for the turnaround part where they start to eat real people food again. I’m still trying to feed a 7-year-old who would prefer KFC (or any kind of meat) to anything that has even come close to a vegetable at some point. Thank you for giving me hope that I may turn my daughter into a foodie yet! Then again, I’m still working on turning my husband into a foodie. I must be doing something wrong!

By: Tia

Tia — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 18:19:47 +0000

Thanks, Stephanie! Positive feedback is always appreciated. I’m so pleased that there are so many other food-folks who share the same goals and aspirations for passing on the food love. Maybe we can create an arranged marriage registry for foodies…keep the tastebuds pure.

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 08:38:02 +0000

I’m new to the site as a whole and I have to say I’m SUPER impressed with what I’m seeing so far!

Apart from being an awesomely well written article, I’m very glad to hear that the feat is indeed possible!!
Hooray and keep up the good work!!

By: Tia

Tia — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 23:41:46 +0000

Take heart, Karen. My friend who was just here this afternoon with her 4 year old has a similar situation – they are foodies, and they have raised their child to eat nearly anything. There were some rejection issues between 2 and 4 years, but it is getting better. Keep offering – eventually they’ll take it again! Yours in foodie solidarity…

By: Karen

Karen — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:29:00 +0000

Wow, aside from having a great laugh, I am now heartened that I am not alone in this struggle! We also were so proud that Alex ate everything put in front of him, but in recent weeks he has started rejecting things that do not involve soft bread and carb snacks like goldfish and teddy grahams. (Horror!) We also made all his own baby food with a wide variety of ingredients and so this is a big shock. We hope he swings back around the way yours did!

By: Tia

Tia — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:44:32 +0000

Good question. I was raised by people who loathed McDonalds, and as such, the first burger I ever had there was when I was 30. I was obscenely surprised that it didn’t taste like plague and death. With my kids, I’d hope that they they could go into a McDonalds and order something off the menu without having a panic attack (which was what my childhood was like) but can also discern that McDonalds is sub-par food, and are able to pick something better quality for themselves. So far, so good – they request sushi 9 times out of 10.

By: Malcolm

Malcolm — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:38:30 +0000

Jillian and I were just talking about this. Do you have weirdo kids that you forbid from having a hamburger from McDonald’s once in a while? Or do you continue the cycle of McDonald’s-fetishism that continues to plague me through my adult life? Or do you just kind of do the best you can?

By: Tia

Tia — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 23:26:46 +0000

I have faith that by continually exposing my kids to new foods and new eating experiences, that they too will be foodies. If nothing else, they’ll be able to eat out or at someone else’s house without having to have special menus prepared for them, and I consider that success. I realize that they’re not going to like everything – I certainly don’t, and I worship food – but I want them to like most things. In the immortal words of Jon Bon Jovi “we’ve gotta keep the faith!”

By: Lindi

Lindi — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 22:00:38 +0000

So – what your saying is. . . . . I’ve got a chance! We foodies, I think, must all be this idealistic.