ON behalf of the picky eaters, it has been the curse of my life. ALl I wish is that people would go eat what they want to eat, and not worry about what I am eating. I will take care of myself, I certainly don't expect anyone else to. I was told by lots of people "your children will eat just like you" and it isn't true, they all love veggies and fruits, and I fed them very well balanced diets or they would not have grown into the healthy giants that they are. The only thing I know for sure is I never made them eat anything they were against, offered healthy choices, and if they didn't like it, they were allowed a different choice of something that was easily prepared.
That was not the case between my Mother and me, and she never understood, that I literally couldn't swallow it, my throat would feel like it was full of needles at the thought of it. We had food wars, where I sat and sat and saw it for breakfast and for lunch and for dinner until I lost weight and a Doctor saved me by telling her to STOP and make sure I took supplements. It had gone on for years, and might very well have to do with why even to this day, a great deal of foods sicken me just to look at them. THey tried to trick me, they tried everything. IT isnt' any fun to be the picky eater, is isn't any fun to live with a picky eater,. there are two sides to everything. Just please if it is a child, don't make a war out of it, the damage will go on for a lifetime, where if allowed to be a phase, it just might pass. I gain a new food about a year. Several I ended up being severally allergic to and have always wondered if that was why they smelled so awful to me, like strawberries. ONe tiny piece in one spoonful of icecream just about finished me off.