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> >. But I'm more interested in knowing what kind of fussiness
> >the rest of you may have to deal with...
>
> My wife's 35-year-old brother is digusting. He still doesn't eat ANY
> vegetables, has to special-order everything (no onions, no pickles, no
> sausage, no this, no that).
>
> On Thanksgiving we made a delicious sage stuffing with apples and
> sausage. His mommy brought along a pot of Stove Top Stuffing so that
> her honey would have something he likes.
>
> GAG!
>
> My wife and I love to cook, we eat a large variety of things, and
> expose our kids (7 and 8) to those things. Yet they remain fussy
> eaters....to the point that more often than not, they go to bed hungry
> because they simply refuse to eat what we make.
>
> We finally got sick of either making 2 meals or making "kid" food.
> Now we make good food that we consider normal fare, and if they don't
> like it, too bad.
>
> When I was a kid my mom NEVER made us something else like chicken
> nuggets or fish sticks just because we "didn't like" what she made.
>
> Side note: Our friends have the opposite problem. They raised their
> kids to eat everything very early on, and now every time they go out
> the kids want lobster and steamed mussels. :-)

My sister brought up her kids the same way. This can be a very
dangerous thing for the pocket book. I can remember their great uncle
taking them to dinner and being a bit shocked when the oldest (10-12
yr?) started with escargot and proceeded down the menu from there.