Are you a fussy eater? or any of your family members?
I don’t believe I am, my son is an extremely fussy eater, drives me silly at times.
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No I am not fussy at all, due entirely to an upbringing just after the war when parents didn’t ‘pander’ to their offspring. Dinner was what it was on the day, adequate and it was usually the same on the menu the same day of each week. That was dinner that day, I was told "if you don’t like it then that’s tough and if you don’t eat it being too ‘fussy’ then you will sit there until you do’. If that failed then that same meal would be dished up again the next day. That was a sure way to teach that food at that time, just having finished being rationed, was not something to be wasted.
Today’s families of perhaps four for instance, all expecting different meals, is way beyond what is reasonable I reckon. Does nobody ever think of all the extra effort and work in cooking and pandering to each individual’s requirements? No, that I reckon is very unfair and just not on.
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I agree with you this time Baz,
I have been known to have the same meal 3 days on the trot,…I guess it’s down to all that variety out there ,that we didn’t really have did we?
We had set meals every week the butcher called with the meat my mother would cook, we hardly had any puddings, she made bread pudding, luckily I liked it, if we didn’t eat it then we went without.
That upbringing made me appreciate food and try never to waste it.
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Barry’s got his pen out again…
…thanks Barry.
My children were told from a very early age that what they were fed they were expected to eat. We did realise that it was inevitable that there were some foods they would find unpalatable as we did ourselves so we did our best to avoid them in any quantity. Fast food outlets have in a way contributed to a lot of children being so called “fussy“.
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Yes I can be, some things make me sick others I can’t abide the feel of it in my mouth, again with the being sick. Drove my mother mad, and her way was eat it or go without anything. I missed a lot of meals back then. 
I remember getting a good smacking one time when I argued about going without, I told her “you don’t like fish but you get something else when we have it” She was not amused. 
But as I make the meals it doesn’t matter, I simply don’t make what I don’t like. Sometimes we have different meals. 
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Once we were old enough (and table manners good enough) for us to eat with the adults then we had whatever was on that day’s menu and accepted it without question.
We were brought up to at least try things - if there were parts of a meal that we really did not like - sprouts, for instance - then we could leave them but were not offered a substitute. None of us would have dreamed of refusing an entire meal.
I had the same upbringing when I was a child.
You get what you’re given and you had better eat it or else. Luckily we had a dog. 
Another thing I’d do is fill my mouth with food and go to the bathroom and dump it down the toilet. Some food my mom cooked, like shepherds pie literally made me sick. I don’t think my mom took off the grease from the minced beef and it would go straight through me but my parents made me sit there until I finished it.
I’m celiac so need to eat certain foods and I don’t tolerate dairy well although I love it. Then again I love glutinous foods also but can’t digest them properly. I’ve got two metabolic disorders that prevent me from eating anything in front of me.
Lobster, scallops, shrimp, clams, squid 
mussels and such? Nope! I like sea fish but not all this stuff.
Call me spoiled and fussy…… I don’t really care.
After age 10 I was making most of my meals anyway and left when I was 16✌️
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An agreement this time 
That’s possibly as we think similarly on this one this time. 
Yes, if that’s directed to me Pauline then your are correct, the pen is out and my strict but fair upbringing is quoted. In all honesty I can say that did me no harm, in fact that set me up for life and to showing my own offspring the ‘right way’ in life.
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I would not call that being a fussy eater, Bratti, just very practical. You have recognised food intolerances and avoid those foods.
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I’ll eat practically anything with the exception of Italian food (pasta) I can’t watch anyone put it in their mouth it turns my stomach oh aye and broccli …YUCK
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I am fussy, I rarely eat meat and prefer my own food to that of anyone else. My son and grandchildren brought up on BLW (baby led weaning) messy but effective eat anything and everything . I fed my son that way before it had a name.
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I wasn’t a fussy eater up to the age of 55, let’s say, nor was my twin brother. But then he had a stroke and was devastated. After a thorough check-up the doctors asked us why we didn’t change our diet for our vessels and liver were obviously in need of it. So we did which makes us a bit fussy about eating meat and anything fatty.
For my daughters it’s part of an urban lifestyle to follow certain dietary trends like eating sugar-free and being a veggie. So when we meet we agree on what should be bought and cooked and they might bring some extra food for themselves. No big deal.
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Well, I am not sure, I certainly don’t eat yucky things like green vegetables (except peas) but I don’t think that is being fussy. I tend to avoid vegetables altogether but peas, carrots and corn are acceptable.
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I eat most things, I’m the human dustbin 
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I think that the reality, Baz, might be that, having gone through the bad years, we might well have congratulated ourselves on having been able to give our own offspring freedom of choice.
That idea might have come back and bitten our bums?
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Yes, possibly to a degree and by way of choice in food that we have today Tedc. Freedom of choice though, in my book, doesn’t mean indulging your offspring, giving them everything they ask for and almost expect. That is what I often see, parents struggling sometimes to enable their offspring ‘to keep up with the Jones’s children’. In some cases youngsters are not seeing the old-fashioned value of having to work for what you get, instead just ask and expect and you will get it. Plus when that is out of fashion you will get the next, latest one. Slightly off topic I know, but that’s where all this leads I reckon.
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Yes, I don’t eat a lot of things. When I was growing up, I ate whatever was served, but it made me sick a lot. It was like I was a sickly child. I wasn’t. I just wasn’t able to tolerate some foods. My parents did get me tested for allergies, but those didn’t detect things like lactose intolerance at the time.
Now there are a lot of things I don’t eat, and I feel much better than I did then. So yes, I’m picky about the things that go in my body because I know they can have a bad reaction.
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No Baz, not you, I meant Barry has just tagged another one of my topics“ again” I was just teasing Barry,…I’ve nicknamed him Mr Pen,
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In such circumstances, Baz, I very much doubt there will be much actual cooking done - ‘ping’ dinners being the order of the day.
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