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Trying new things is hard. I completely understand this. I will be the first to admit that I hate change and I’m bad at trying new things. I love getting stuck in a routine or sticking to things that are familiar to me. The problem is I know that it can sometimes leave me limited. I don’t want my kids to live the boring changeless life that I live. I want them to know it’s okay to change something or try new things. How will you ever know if you like something if you don’t try it? What if it turned out you were really good at it too!
Food:
Gavin is super picky and down right refuses to try new things. He either has to be tricked into eating new things or see someone else eat it and pretend it’s better then anything in the world. Johnny use to be the same way. Now that he is 10 years old he has a bit more of an open mind. Well, more open then I am at 29. You basically have to shove new foods down my throat in order to get me to try them. I’ve tried to be more open minded though as a parent. I have noticed over the past 10 years I have tried new foods and not only liked them but added them into my regular foods! When I was younger I was even worse then I am now. Things I like now that I wouldn’t touch are foods such as peppers, mushrooms, coffee, and onions. I still can’t tolerate a raw onion but love cooked ones!
Johnny at 10 years old already eats more things then I do! He is usually willing to try almost anything once. Well, unless it’s southern grits or mushrooms. He even loves many things both his father and I don’t.
His bravery has also helped me in trying new foods. The most recent of my new loves?
Star Fruit and Celery! Both are great weight loss options too! I had grown up hating celery. I didn’t like the “strings” it had raw or the mush it had cooked. When the recent beef stew recipe I shared with you listed it as an ingredient I had planned on dropping it- until Johnny insisted! When I went to pick them out he insisted I try it. Surprisingly, as stated in the post it was good.
In school they had a fruit week and one of Johnny’s friends brought in a star fruit and he loved it. He knew our local grocery store carried them and again insisted I tried them. Of course my cautious self tried it at first by only agreeing to lick it and it was like a good combination of a pear and apple mushed in to one with a bit of sour tossed in.
So, next time someone tosses a new food your way don’t immediately assume you won’t like it based on it’s look or texture. You never know it could very well be something you end up loving!
I’m still not a celery fan, but I will try most foods!
I would like to say that I am open to trying new foods, but I think it depends on what the food looks like. I have tried and hate mushrooms and olives. I refuse to try some shellfish because they look gross.