/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>13556178
A guy I work with mentioned he doesn't like chickpeas today

Is there anything that can be done to cure picky eating in adults? I have a roommate that doesn't like any fish, mushrooms, onions and loads of other stuff. Makes eating with them really annoying.

Also how can I prevent it in my future child? I would feel so ashamed if I raised a picky eater. I've even read stories of people raising their kids and feeding them tons of different foods early but they still end up picky eaters.

>>13556248
I've looked into it and it seems sorta pretentious tricky even now. It seems doing the whole "eat what's on your plate or not at all" can work, but also don't force it too much. I'd say not introducing them to any sugary foods for a while, or keep it strictly for special occasions. We have high sense of taste while young, and pretty much all vegetables have some sort of bitterness. So they'll likely taste that and try to avoid eating it. Especially if they already know how sweet some things can be. Vegetables really are an acquired taste, but for most it happens while young so they don't think about it. Some people do have more taste buds than others so they might end up being picky because they can pick up more flavors, meaning more of a possibility of finding a flavor they don't like. It's not common though.

>>13556273
>eat what's on your plate or not at all
My mom tried this with me when I was a kid and all it did was make me learn to be cool with not eating. I still to this day have trouble sometimes keeping up with meals every day because it's so easy just to stay in bed and not bother eating.
>>13556248
> I have a roommate that doesn't like any fish, mushrooms, onions and loads of other stuff. Makes eating with them really annoying.
Why do you eat with them then? I don't get why you'd want to eat with anyone as opposed to eating comfortably by yourself honestly. It's not like having friends around makes eating more enjoyable. That's barely a step above wanting to shit with other people in the bathroom instead of alone. Doesn't make any sense.

>>13556248
Like most things when it comes to parenting, don't take the easy road because it's quieter/less hassle. Whatever behavior you're giving in on, it's guaranteed to escalate as they grow up and it's a bitch to reverse.

As far as food-specific advice, here's a few things: always encourage them to try new things, get them involved in the kitchen so they see how it's done, let them know there's no replacement for things they don't like, and rotate between making things you know they enjoy with dishes or meals that push their boundaries and get them trying new things.

>>13556302
>always eat alone because otherwise it's like shitting in the same room
This is so autistic it hurts.

>>13556178
My sister orders the most expensive steak on the menu, orders it cooked medium well, and then cuts it into square pieces and squirts A1 sauce on her plate and then submerges each piece in the sauce before eating.

>>13556178
Psst. I have a secret to tell you. Your friends are autismos.

Brandi is not related.

>>13556302
Don't girls like to go to the bathroom together? They want to talk even when shitting.

I unironically enjoy my wedge salad more than the steak when I go to a steakhouse

>>13556178
My brother in law won't eat any vegetables except mashed potatoes. He only orders burgers and chips or steak in a restaurant. Steak is well done, no sauce, no onions or mushrooms etc burger has to made without onions in the patty and just ketchup on the bun. Haven't seen him eat anything else

>>13556273
>It seems doing the whole "eat what's on your plate or not at all" can work, but also don't force it too much
I've heard enough stories from people whose parents did this to know that it's just as likely to hinder as it is to help. I think your point about sweet things is good though. Sugary stuff can fuck up adults eating styles never mind childrens.

>>13556302
>I don't get why you'd want to eat with anyone as opposed to eating comfortably by yourself honestly. It's not like having friends around makes eating more enjoyable.
I mean for one thing, economies of scale and sharing the cooking. Also if they're people you actually like then it's enjoyable.

>>13556308
Seems like the best advice. Letting them know what they're eating and how it's made lets them tailor foods to their tastes as well rather than just letting them think it's something that they won't like no matter what.

>>13556182
Chick pee is a weird fetish. You're the weird one

>>13556315
I didn't say I always eat alone. I said I don't understand why anyone would prefer having other people eating around you.

>>13556248
>adults
>roommate

>>13556358
>burger has to made without onions in the patty
Based. Apart from that he's the quintessential pleb. Always wonder how these people just get through life, must be so stressful when they go out somewhere and have to embarrass themselves every single time. Or maybe they just don't have any shame.

>>13556178
>>suggests barbeque is the best food of all time
its pretty good, though, you must admit
carolina style, ideally

>>13556374
Yeah the burger one isn't too bad, I don't really mind but I do put them in when making my own. They've served his steak to him forgetting he asked for no sauce and he either has to scrape the sauce off or his wife tells the waiter for him.

>>13556372
Based

>>13556391
That's extremely cringe. At least his wife isn't disgusted by him I guess

My brother is genuinely autistic and the fussiest eater I know

> Covers almost every plate of food with ketchup before eating
> won't eat any green vegetables, pretty much only eats carrots and sweetcorn.
> will only eat certain brands of food like frozen pizza, and sauces, like sweet and sour sauce has to be uncle bens
> complains about anything mildy spicy, says the brand of sweet chilli sauce (which barely even has a kick) i use is too spicy
> complains if a meal doesn't have meat in it
> will eat salad but only if it consists of mostly pasta and is drowned in mayonnaise and salad cream
>will only eat thin fries, won't touch thick cut ones
>cuts the crust off his sandwiches
>only fruit he will eat is bananas

faggot. picky eaters need to die. It's natural selection.

>>13556418
>picky eaters need to die. It's natural selection.
If it was natural selection you wouldn't be seeing them.

>>13556418
>complains if a meal doesn't have meat in it

B A S E D

>>13556418
I mean for being literally autistic that's not terrible. I know otherwise """neurotypical""" adults that are way pickier than that. It probably just grates on you because you;re around him a lot

>>13556302
>>13556362
I should have been a bit more clear on that part. What I meant is it either seems to help or make matters worse in the West. One way to turn someone off of something is to give them a negative experience attached to it, but for others might see the situation different. Japan seems to follow this style, I hear the schools only give one option a day, and they don't seem to be picky. But there's a lot of reasons I that I can see where it only works for Japan and not many others, especially the West.
My parents use to do this, but somewhere along the line, probably due to stress and four kids, they caved in and stopped. Dinners had to be something everyone ate. I ended up being a picky eater myself, and would say I still am. I've been working on it for the past 6-7 years and have been able to make significant progress.

>>13556308
This is good. This is more of what I wanted to suggest. You can't just say "Oh you didn't like that? Here's some nuggets." Let them have their likes and dislikes, but don't let them just hate everything besides chicken nuggets and mac and cheese.

>>13556178
Most of this list is cringe but barbecue is a perfectly acceptable favorite food

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1TWvXwgKr0
this guy only eats mac and cheese. it's funny cause he seems like a pretty decent dude otherwise but literally won't eat anything else

>>13556480
>Refuses to use another pan for risk of it tasting different
Feel bad for the guy obviously has some psychosis going on

>>13556248
Cook good food.

>>13556335
I could have told you that.

>>13556248
>>13556273
>>13556302
>>13556308
>>13556362
Not introducing sugary stuff is correct, and helps a lot. Soda should be something they don't know the taste of until they're like 8 at least, and avoid juices because they're just as bad.

As for
>eat what's on your plate or not at all
My advice is doing what my parents did to me. They allowed me to choose how big of an overall portion I got so I learned how much I could actually handle eating, didn't overeat when I was hungry, and wasn't given an unreasonable task when they made me eat all of it. I chose the portion size, but they kept the ratio of foods on the plate consistent between all of ours, so I couldn't avoid eating something I wasn't a fan of just by taking a tiny bit. You don't offer the kid an option not to eat, that's abusive to refuse to let them eat later when they made a shitty decision earlier when they weren't hungry. But what you /can/ do is not let them leave the table until they've finished everything on their plate. They have to eat all of the food they took before they can get up, even if that means they're sitting there crying for half an hour while you do something else. It will show them that hot food is better, and you eat what you're given if you were hungry enough to eat.

>>13556565
Also, it's important to give them a diverse palate early on. I grew up in New England so we ate a lot of seafood, but nobody I know as an adult will even consider eating anything besides fish sticks, meanwhile I suck down oysters rockafeller like nobody's business. My brother is a sperg who pitched fits about anything that wasn't pizza, hamburgers, Mac and cheese, mozzarella sticks, or chicken. My mom made him a separate side dish for every meal of his life because they figured it wasn't worth the screaming battle that would ensue otherwise.

Nowadays I'm 22 and I'll try anything at least once, think I have a pretty good palate, and have overall good food habits. My brother is 18 and has ordered a cheeseburger at every restaurant we've been to for 10 years, and before that it was mac and cheese every time. We literally cannot go to a restaurant that doesn't have a burger in the menu. Nice seafood restaurant? Burger. French restaurant? Burger. Mexican place? Burger. Chinese? Burger. It's infuriating. It's so limiting and I'm embarrassed for and by him.

>>13556329
you need to ask her politely yet firmly to leave

>>13556248
you can kinda "hide" mushrooms and onions by cutting them very finely and overpowering the dish with spices I guess?
why do you have to cook for your roomate?

>>13556460
No its not, literally a step above ready made dinners.

>>13556248
Gotta teach them that youre super squarely 'on their side ' when they're babies and make sure they knew you hate eating some things too but you do it because it makes you big and strong and then you explain how body maintenance works
Fuck damn this world's so big and babies don't know anything.
You'll fucking ruin them if you don't teach them when they're tiny.
Can't fix adults.

>>13556616
I would honestly watch a show of fatties treating vegetables like it was fear factor

>>13556248
Make sure your kid is hungry before eating. Lots of kids snack on shit like cookies and chips and other junk food before dinner and spoil their appetite. I was always active as a kid and was growing so I was always hungry and as a result basically ate anything in front of me. My brother was never hungry and barely ate and as a result because way more of a pickey eater, he also only grew to 5'9 while I'm 6'2

>no spice
>no cheese that isn't on pizza
>nothing bitter
>nothing sour
>nothing too bland
>no cold meat
This is my close friends pickiness more or less. The only problem I am seeing in this thread is a bunch of whiny bitches worrying about what other people eat. Unless they throw a fit at you for not having what they want to eat, there is literally no problem.

>>13556576
Oysters rockafeller is delicious to be fair

>>13556626
Someone needs to put that on TLC

>>13556178
>can only eat heinz brand ketchup
do you eat hunts or some shit? I'll eat walmart ketchup but it's a copy of heinz

>>13556248
make your kid eat shit and they'll eat it. your roommate is an adult now and they're obviously a failed human bean so you might as well cut your losses with them. hopefully they never have children because god knows they would be even worse

I was a picky eater growing up but I've been actively trying to reverse it in the past few years. I think I had some childhood trauma relating to food or something in my past because when I was growing up it was like I had an actually phobia for trying new foods. It terrified me. I've expanded my diet but it is still limited, and I still get afraid about trying something new, but it has gotten easier the more I've thrown myself into it

>>13556248
booze and just introducing the right things
i was picky most of my life. now after a few beers there isnt much i wont eat

>>13556182

Chickpeas are objectively the shittiest bean and only good in specific dishes built to utilize them

>>13556182
I prefer gamergirl pee myself.

>>13556248
When I was a tiny thing I ate anything and everything but as I got older I got really picky and I'm not sure why. I used to scoff down prawns like a vaccuum cleaner - me and my brothers got banned from eating at the seafood section of a chinese buffet when we were on holiday in Florida one time, go figure, also we used to wander round the supermarket eating pickled mussels out the jar.

Then I suddenly didn't like seafood or broccoli, cauliflower, anything green really. Eventually I got over that shit, but it was because I enjoyed cooking shows and gradually expanded my palate by growing more curious of how the beautiful food must have tasted.

So I think that it might be a good idea to be as adventurous with your cooking as you'd like to be and include your kid or your flatmate or whoever during the whole process - and be positive and excited about it. Make it desireable and they'll probably want to try it. Make it a fun experience and they'll want it to be fun.

>>13556888
Holy shit you are a pussy.

>>13556418
that's not autism
it's retardation

>>13556178
>tfw im the person who orders chicken tenders at decent dining restaurants

>>13557735
Explain yourself

>>13556178
>>13556616
I am assuming this is american, what is the story behind this? is it some sort of documentary?

>>13557873
Amerifats can't eat anything that isn't deep fried and pumped full of corn syrup, what more "story" do you need?

>>13556182
Chickpeas left whole are pretty shit with the texture of half digested vomit chunks, my man. The only half-eatable whole chickpeas are in Indian curries and even then it's arguable if they provide anything to the dish or are just a tasteless vessel for the rest. Hummus is awesome though.

>>13557943
>Flyovers can't eat anything...
Fixed that for you

>>13557869
I have the pallet of a child, tenders and well done steaks

>>13558017
You spell like a child too

>>13556248
No.Those people usually have shitty parents that let them eat whatever they wanted as a kid and now is impossible to change their disgusting habits.

>>13556248
for your child, cant you just give them a variety of different things and adjust the flavours a bit until they get used to them?
eg start with blandish stuff, mashed/sauted/baked potatoes, mashed carrots
start advancing by adding spices and things to change the flavour,try other more flavourful things
if theyre think its not sweet enough you can do a stirfry with a sweet sauce
dishes like brussel sprouts with bacon in a cream sauce etc
dont just force them to eat random roasted vegetables try to slowly build up to it over time

I hate pickles and cilantro

>>13556605
>he eats things he hates
how about you learn how to cook good tasting food instead retard

>>13561445
>good tasting
>healthy
Everyone knows that things can’t be healthy AND taste good anon, don’t be silly

>>13556248
On the vein of cartoons, don’t let your children use the internet or television, i absolutely implore you to watch the television you’re going to show your children first so you can realize how absolutely awful it is

>>13561475
get lost kiddie palate

>>13557873
It's a TLC show called Freaky Eaters where they showcase people with extreme and bizarre eating disorders

The bitch from OP's pic literally only ate potatoes (90% french fries) and cheese sauce, nothing else

>>13556178

>one refuses to eat any fruit that isn't an apple and won't touch most vegetables especially green ones

Not really much of a milestone anymore. I don't eat fruit cause I guess I'm not a fan of it. I'm not into sweet produce; plus, vegetables are better for you than fruits.

>>13556578

That's only if they order their steak well done.

The point of anon's post was so that she would piss off the staff as much as humanely possible WITHOUT having to cross that line.

>>13561503
It was a joke, mouth-breather

>>13561535
your cooking skill is a joke

>>13556248
make sure to beat your child every once in a while. picky eaters exist solely due to people being coddled too much.

>>13561545
Woah, you got me!
Haha thanks for the laffs, pal!

I just can't stand raisins, licorice, selleri and fish eggs. Otherwise just weird shit like eyeballs, tongues, chicken feet, heavily fermented fish and such.

Some really plain processed meat would also make me hesitate but I'm sure proper hunger would have me drop all preferences.

>>13556565
>avoid juices
You mean artificial or natural?

>>13557154
Fuck off, at least he actively tries to improve himself. And he got trips.

>>13561572
nice spelling

>>13556591
You might be in the minority with that belief anon. Im not sayin its god tier,but you must of had some terrible bbq to think its anywhere near ready made dinners

>>13556248
>Is there anything that can be done to cure picky eating in adults?
A bullet to the head.

>>13557069
That kinda sucks,opposite for me. Plain hamburgers as a kid,now il eat damn near everything. I figure its out there,why not try it.

>>13561513
Obviously shes unhealthy as shit,but its weird the body can actually live of of potatos n cheeze

>>13557873
CHEESY POTATOES

>>13561513
CHEESY POTATOES

>>13557986
>Muh texture

Fucking texture fags.

>>13561515
I'm with you my man. I don't into fruit either but love vegetables. If I'm served fruit I'll eat it and enjoy it but I'm not going to take a peach or some shit out of a fruit bowl and just eat it. Have been tempted to make Jamie Oliver's peach and bourbon pork chops though.

only thing i wont eat is eggplant and its because im allergic too it. i cant imagine how boring life must bc if all i could "handle" was mac and cheese and chicken nugs. id probably kill myself. i swear theyre just addicted to sugar, salt, and fat. Do Europeans have this picky eater pandemic? Barring low function severe autism there is literally no excuse to eat like a four year old into your adult years. My roommate is like this he's gonna die of scurvy one day i swear. He's also 5'6.

>>13556178
the burden of being an amerimutt...

>>13556591
you're missing out bigtime. i bet the bbq you tried was prepared by someone who doesn't know how to cook.

>>13556704
>no cheese that isn't on pizza
Weird but okay
>no spice
>nothing too bland
???????

>>13562305
as long as you consume protein and fat you will live. You'll be nutritionally deficient but you'll live.

>>13556329
Get fucked faggot.

>>13561522
Please leave immediately.

>>13556178
I'm not picky in general, but for some reason I cannot stand tomatoes or ketchup, I once had a salad and ate one of the tomato slices just to be sure that I didn't like them, and I had that awful sensation where I would burp and could taste vomit with hints of tomato.

>>13556182
Cutie italian's called Bonazza
Bonazza literally translates to qt