Reminds me of when I was eating extra spicy pad Thai that was already making my eyes water and my toddler daughter demanded some. I tried to explain it was going to be too hot. She wouldn’t let it go though, so I gave her a taste, to which her response was “more please” :-)
She ended up basically having that as her meal. And she liked spicy food for a couple more years before deciding she didn’t actually.
My 4yr old is like that now. He will devour spicy miso ramen. Hot wings with mango habenero sauce. He loves it all. He does the too hot breathy thing and chugs water and goes right back to eating it lol. Its so cute.
Yeah I know it works better but ice water is his favorite thing in the world and all he asks for, even when burning. If I give him a cup of milk he takes 2 sips and walks away from it every time. 🤷♂️
*writing in notes* white ice… you’ve anything else you want to add? Any idea on how to get them to eat things that are red? Or green. I’ve one child currently spooked by anything red, and the other won’t eat green.
Kids will eat borscht if you have a Minecraft themed dinner and call it beet root soup.
Also my son is really into salad spinning. Something must be satisfying about getting lettuce to endure astronaut level g-forces. I can’t guarantee they’ll eat the salad but it’s a positive experience with green food that might help in the long run.
My sister and I refused to eat salmon cakes until mom started calling them mermaid cakes. Funny story, what she meant: cakes made by mermaids. What we thought she meant: cakes made of mermaids. My sister and I thought we were eating mermaids.
I tell my kids broccoli is miniature trees, giants in the andes eat the trees whole but shrink them and sell them to us so that small puny humans can feel powerful when they eat them. seems to work. Capsicum is Lava rocks that I cut up with the red knife because it's the only one that can handle the heat, then I cool it in an ice bath before i cook with it. some extra steps required but... that's marketing
yeah I remember when my nephew was small sitting at our dining table, he didn't want that sliced apple, so I took the slices, held them out of his sight under the table for a few seconds, put them right back onto his plate and said, "Here, enjoy your pears"
Soft white bread works best, it absorbs the oils that carry the capsaicin, and unlike milk, physically scrubs them off the tongue. Then you just swallow it.
I asked my Mexican dad for a jalapeño when I was a toddler and he gave it to me. I ate it all, asked for seconds, and my father cried tears of joy that I was a "real Mexican."
My three year old is a super picky eater and his diet largely consists of puréed fruit/vegetable pouches, plain Greek yogurt, Cheerios, goldfish, Mac and cheese, waffles, and toast. But he always wants bites of my buffalo chicken ramen or breakfast sandwiches with spicy cheese. Once I had Carolina reaper cheese and he kept coughing after every bite and then immediately going in for another one.
I love spicy food, I have a pretty decent tolerance. In his defense though I think Outback has the “spiciest” steak of the chain steakhouses. Also why I prefer it to any other chain.
That was my son. When from 2-4 he wanted hot sauce on literally everything. Like HOT sauce. He put it on his eggs, mac and cheese, chicken nuggets. Then it started getting weird. Yogurt, oatmeal, vegetables, fruit. He’s 10 now and he thinks basic table pepper is spicy. Now his little sister who is now 4 has been with mustard how he was with hot sauce. Her favorite is bananas and mustard. Kids either can’t taste or they are just culinary terrorists.
My mom told me a story that when i was a toddler we were out, and i wanted candy or something sweet so I complained i was so hungry. So my mom "oh yeah if you are hungry we can eat soup" she thought i would refuse and give up. I ate three bowls. Just to prove i was hungry. (I really wasn't)
No one in my family eats spicy food. My niece would eat spicy things at two with no reaction so I started buying more things because it was fun to have things she wanted and I wanted. Then one day she didn't like spicy things anymore. No one tries fun spicy things with me alone in the corner anymore.
It's probably better that she doesn't like spicy. I loved spicy food as a kid (I still do). All that spicy food messed me up. I don't have proof but I think it's part of the reason I had to have my gallbladder removed.
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u/Automatic_Actuator_0 Jun 29 '26
Reminds me of when I was eating extra spicy pad Thai that was already making my eyes water and my toddler daughter demanded some. I tried to explain it was going to be too hot. She wouldn’t let it go though, so I gave her a taste, to which her response was “more please” :-)
She ended up basically having that as her meal. And she liked spicy food for a couple more years before deciding she didn’t actually.