On Sun, 27 May 2007 16:36:46 +1200, Miche > wrote:

>I've no worries about
>her turning into a fussy eater, unless it's in the direction of holding
>out for the good stuff!

I never thought of myself as "fussy" (I'm the one who eats *anything*
except cooked endives) until I found myself in the hospital for 10
days and confronted with awful food. Now I know I have one kind of
fussiness: I just can't eat bad food. I survived on whatever I could
find that was edible on those trays (not much, vegetables were few and
invariably overcooked, meat and fish were bland, fruit were canned and
syrupy - blech) plus what I asked my SO and friends to bring (fresh
fruit, cherry tomatoes, Italian crackers, plain yogurts, OJ, and small
dry sausages). I lost a ton of weight during those 10 days (can't say
how much exactly since I had a broken leg and could not climb on
scales, but from my clothes when I got out, I'd say at least 4 kgs,
which is a lot for such a short time), faced with bad food, I just
lost my appetite. Oh, and I found out *why* I was so fussy and hated
vegetables so much when I was a kid: I just hate boiled vegetables.

Nathalie in Switzerland