Comments on: Catering for Fussy Eaters http://adultpickyeatersuk.wordpress.com/2008/07/10/catering-for-fussy-eaters/ For Picky-Eating Adults in the UK and worldwide Mon, 14 Dec 2009 10:02:42 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: DoulbleL http://adultpickyeatersuk.wordpress.com/2008/07/10/catering-for-fussy-eaters/#comment-1907 DoulbleL Mon, 14 Jul 2008 19:39:55 +0000 http://adultpickyeatersuk.wordpress.com/?p=87#comment-1907 I have become a wiz at eating in front of peole and getting away with being picky. I think, being a picky eater, it's a skill you have to aquire. But I too hate when people try and accomodate my eating habits. It just highlights what I am slightly embarassed about already. I can find something most everywhere and if not I use, "oh, I ate before I came, I'm sorry". It's not perfect but people can't really argue. Potatoes, bread, chicken (nothing fancy, but no bones either), and definately no "surprise" dishes where you can't tell what it is. I have become a wiz at eating in front of peole and getting away with being picky. I think, being a picky eater, it’s a skill you have to aquire. But I too hate when people try and accomodate my eating habits. It just highlights what I am slightly embarassed about already. I can find something most everywhere and if not I use, “oh, I ate before I came, I’m sorry”. It’s not perfect but people can’t really argue.

Potatoes, bread, chicken (nothing fancy, but no bones either), and definately no “surprise” dishes where you can’t tell what it is.

]]> By: Jack http://adultpickyeatersuk.wordpress.com/2008/07/10/catering-for-fussy-eaters/#comment-1906 Jack Mon, 14 Jul 2008 18:57:07 +0000 http://adultpickyeatersuk.wordpress.com/?p=87#comment-1906 Claire, Wow, you and I are very insync on all points: * Plain, Plain, Plain, textures, flavors and smells. No bits, chunks, surprises or secret sauces. * Simple, separable and no mixes....love the breads and pastries but keep them simple. Don't want to find any hidden surprises in my bread. * Love the potatoes, but keep them simple, no sauces, creams or gravy unless its on the side. *** Yes, yes, yes - no attention please. I do not want a special meal. Please do not go out of your way for me because chances are I won't like it anyway and you will be hurt. Universally safe foods for me is bread (love dark and whole grains) & potatoes (plain)..... Universally dangerous is anything with a strong smell like, corned beef, cabbage, and fish....those type dishes I find difficult to keep on my plate or even fake eating. thx jack Claire,
Wow, you and I are very insync on all points:

* Plain, Plain, Plain, textures, flavors and smells. No bits, chunks, surprises or secret sauces.

* Simple, separable and no mixes….love the breads and pastries but keep them simple. Don’t want to find any hidden surprises in my bread.

* Love the potatoes, but keep them simple, no sauces, creams or gravy unless its on the side.

*** Yes, yes, yes – no attention please. I do not want a special meal. Please do not go out of your way for me because chances are I won’t like it anyway and you will be hurt.

Universally safe foods for me is bread (love dark and whole grains) & potatoes (plain)…..

Universally dangerous is anything with a strong smell like, corned beef, cabbage, and fish….those type dishes I find difficult to keep on my plate or even fake eating.

thx
jack

]]> By: Z http://adultpickyeatersuk.wordpress.com/2008/07/10/catering-for-fussy-eaters/#comment-1904 Z Thu, 10 Jul 2008 22:28:53 +0000 http://adultpickyeatersuk.wordpress.com/?p=87#comment-1904 I have a friend who finds it difficult to eat anything but fruit and vegetables (yes, she is thin), but maybe you could share the bread. I think that the worst thing for a great many people is the prospect of an uneatable surprise in their food so I agree that sauces and bitty foods are the universally dangerous ones, as are unexpected combinations, like Sole Veronique (sole in a cream sauce with peeled grapes in, sorry). Fish is a bit tricky anyway, because of the prospect of unexpected bones. If I were in the worrying position of doing a buffet meal for a convention of fussy eaters, I'd do a great many small bowls of different foods so that none of them touched each other, with the vegetables at one end, the meat at the other and the bread, rice cakes etc (because many people won't touch wheat) in the middle so that they could choose what they liked without drawing attention to it. Do you think that people who say they are allergic to many foods are sometimes hiding the fact that they are picky eaters? When my daughter was in her teens, she became vegetarian for a few years because she only liked beef and pork and it was easier not to eat meat at all than to be fussy about it. I have a friend who finds it difficult to eat anything but fruit and vegetables (yes, she is thin), but maybe you could share the bread.

I think that the worst thing for a great many people is the prospect of an uneatable surprise in their food so I agree that sauces and bitty foods are the universally dangerous ones, as are unexpected combinations, like Sole Veronique (sole in a cream sauce with peeled grapes in, sorry). Fish is a bit tricky anyway, because of the prospect of unexpected bones.

If I were in the worrying position of doing a buffet meal for a convention of fussy eaters, I’d do a great many small bowls of different foods so that none of them touched each other, with the vegetables at one end, the meat at the other and the bread, rice cakes etc (because many people won’t touch wheat) in the middle so that they could choose what they liked without drawing attention to it.

Do you think that people who say they are allergic to many foods are sometimes hiding the fact that they are picky eaters? When my daughter was in her teens, she became vegetarian for a few years because she only liked beef and pork and it was easier not to eat meat at all than to be fussy about it.

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