Friday 29 July 2016

Teenage son is extremely fussy about which foods he chooses to eat.


My son is 15. He has always been quite fussy with regard to what he eats. He is very rigid about what brands he will eat and how meals need to be prepared and presented. If we try to save money by buying cheaper alternatives, it ends up being a false economy with as there is no fooling DS. He won't eat it something if it's not one of his preferred brands. We usually shop in Tesco, and he almost exclusively eats products that are organic or tesco finest, which are substantially more expensive than the regular or value ranges. He thinks food from Aldi and Lidl (these are discount supermarket chains in the UK) is "crap". He will also only eat organic fruit and vegetables, and he won't even drink regular milk because he says that the cows that produce it are "pumped full of chemicals". He also obsessively checks the labels of food to see if there are any ingredients he doesn't like. He knows the names of almost every food coloring, preservative and flavour enhancer and won't eat anything that has any of them in it.I am curious what types of food do your teens eat? Do they cook for themselves at all? Also, do you think my DS is being unreasonable with his preferences? via /r/Parenting http://ift.tt/2awxjXK

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