Your Mature Tastebuds

[Merika]

When I was a kid I was sort of a picky eater. I didn't like a whole bunch of things and my parents made me eat it anyway. This did not expand my tastebuds, it simply made me hate mealtime on some occasions. Then, as I got older, my tastes changed and I eat alot of things now that I didn't eat as a kid.

With my own kids, I never forced them to eat anything. As they got older, sure enough, their tastebuds matured (I guess that is the right term for it) and they began eating different kinds of foods. However, they don't always like the same thing.

I was wondering if your tastes also changed as you grew older and if you keep this in mind when you raise your own kids? Do you make them eat foods they don't particularly like or not?

[Star]

i would make my kids taste everything i put in front of them. if they didn't like something, they had to take at least one or two bites because your taste buds are forever changing. I did this especially with vegetables. they might not of liked broccoli when they were 5 but loved it at 6 or 7.

I know that some of the foods i liked as a kid i can't stomach now and vice versa.

[Luba]

My taste buds have grown and so have I (rounder, I mean)! Growing up poor, we kind of ate the same things over and over (Mom sure knew how to stretch or make a meal on practically nothing)....so I have gone hog wild trying a few things...

I think because of that way of growing up, we made our boys eat was in front of them like we were raised. I see now how WRONG THAT was!