I vowed I'd never force my children to eat anything, because I was forced to eat the unacceptable when I was at school, rice pudding and mashed potato with massive lumps and milk which I still can't drink neat till this day. I don't consider that I was a fussy eater, but there were a few things, like everyone, that I gagged on. I did allow my children to leave what they personally found unpalatable, fine with my first, he ate practically anything, my second was an incredibly fussy eater, spat out all the homemade food I'd prepared when I started to wean him and that continued through childhood, objected to anything green. He sorted himself out somewhere along the line, eats most stuff now with a penchant for South East Asian cuisine, I wonder now if he'd have spit out Pak Choi for for example or Kimichi if he'd been started off on those, probably because they are an acquired taste that he developed along with a more appreciative palate. As an adult has moved on considerably from peanut butter and fish fingers, which were among the handful of foods he found acceptable.
