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Originally Posted by MysticCat
The rule in my house was you had to eat one bite of everything without making a face. If you made a face or complained, you had to eat a second bite. After that one bite, you could leave the rest on the plate.
My mother finally gave up on olives, beets and tomato aspic for me. Those were impossible. But I l ove liver. 
We have, and he is getting better. The things that are proving the hardest are what he would call "slimey" (this includes mac and cheese) and "mixed" foods, like casseroles. |
My mother never gave up on any of it. She insisted that if I kept eating things I would eventually like them. I am a VERY picky eater and now have severe restrictions due to Crohn's on top of that pickiness.
I don't blame him on the casseroles. I can't stand different food groups to be mixed together.. it's my OCD quirk. I have lots of strange food "rules" for myself. It makes me squeamish to eat two different color m&m's at the same time. Yes, I know they taste the same and I wouldn't know if I didn't see them, but it makes me really anxious to do it..lol. But for him, it's simply a matter of too many different tactile stimuli hitting the mouth at once as well as different flavors all at the same time. It's so overstimulating to the CNS. I kind of miss my old career sometimes.