picky parents make picky children?

Just curious as to what people's thoughts are on parent's eating habits affecting children?

My DH who i love to bits has all sorts of things he won't eat. Mostly i just live with it, other times it really winds me up. the last thing i want to have is children who are picky eaters too! i eat basically everything, which adds to the fustration

so yeh, wondering if there is a correlation? and also any advice! DH doesn't eat chicken, cheese, fish/seafood, and all manner of odd things like ham steaks, celery, various fruit, berries, mushrooms.... i know it is early to be thinking about these things, but wondering how to warm him up to the idea that i won't be pandering to his every wish when i am trying to cook for a family? i am keen to try BLW so not wanting to faff around making him different meals to me and baby!

thanks in advance!

Fil will not touch vegies... Neither will DP! Dd won't touch her dinner unless she eats the same as us!

Ugh I hope not! DH is a terribly picky eater - no veges, certain meats, not on the bone . . . painful! So far DS hasn't gone that way, so here's hoping he takes after me!

DH eats most things but what I find annoying is when he makes the 'ew, *insert various types of veges*' comments to DD even if he will eat and even likes it himself. She immediately picks up on that and stops eating it.
Kids do pick up on their parents attitude to food and eating IMO - his mum once told me she never made the kids eat what she wouldnt herself. All well and good in theory but shes not a big vege eater either so there was a lot that DH hadnt tried when we moved in together. That has since changed

Im a bit more strict with that sort of thing - dinner will be served up and if you dont want it, you go hungry (although I am happy to be flexible on that depending on child age and other factors). Seems to work, DD for the most part is a good eater

There is tonnes of research which shows a correlation between the mother's diet during pregnancy and a child's acceptance of a wide range of food - so as you're not a picky eater, your baby is already getting exposure to a wide variety of tastes which is great. I would totally recommend BLW, I only started with my daughter at about 8 months but I would absolutely do it from the start with the next baby. Even if your DH is picky (and is probably unlikely to change, from my experience!) I would just make sure that he and you don't talk about his picky food habits at family mealtimes, don't make a fuss about what he doesn't like/won't eat and ensure that your baby's experience of food is always positive and fun. Enjoy the rest of your pregnancy :)

When I first met DH he was an incredibly fussy eater. I just never bought into it and continued to make the meals I wanted and he actually grew to like them (He will quite happily eat it unless I ask and of course then has to complain that he doesn't like it)
He was brought up in a home where dinner was very basic, meat and 3 veg (all boiled) so a lot of the stuff I made him he had never even tried. And I think just like a child the more you expose them to it the more they get used to the taste.

Even now we are probably still a wee bit fussy, I hate eating meat off the bone. Certain vegies we just don't go there, corgette, onion, cucumber (although funny enough my girls love cucumber).... And I really struggle eating fruit.

Our Girls have both been through their fussy stages and there are some foods they just don't like, which is understandable. Generally though, they are very good eaters and often their favourites are the things I don't like because when ever they get it (bananas etc.) its a real special treat!
I think the key has been not to make a big deal out of food, food is food, if we are hungry we eat.

My sister got her DP finally eating healthy food by pointing out exactly that - if he modelled a crap diet, not only was it bad for his health, but he was not doing his daughter's health any favours either. I'd be pushing that kind of angle. Sounds like he's fussy to the point of being unhealthy to me.

My DH isn't much of a fruit eater - I'm thinking his useless parents brought him up on crap snacks - but I still eat it and share it with DD. And I try and have the limited fruit that DH will eat available so he's at least eating some fruit, even if he's dodging so much good stuff! DD hasn't seemed to have picked up that DH isn't eating much variety - she's smart enough to happily enjoy her cherries/apples/grapefruit etc while he has yet another banana

Interesting topic. I am not a fussy eater at all but DH is. He was worse when I met him but over the years I have worn him down and changed his palate a little bit I guess. His father is also fussy and prefers plain old meat and potato type dinners.
So... I thought that it was a learnt behaviour and over my dead body would my children be fussy! DH was banned from expressing any negative emotions or thoughts about food around the kids right from the start.

Child #1 popped out and was a screaming colic and reflux baby- after a journey of food elimination for me, we found he was intolerant of citrus, tomato and dairy through my breast milk. When we started him on solids I was obviously careful not to introduce allergen foods too early but did try him on plenty of stuff. Texture was a major thing for him and he gagged and choked until about 12 months & some foods he refluxed back up. He was a very fussy, sensitive eater and refused many foods regardless of my insistent retrying (even resorted to force feeding vege soup once to my shame, even though we didn't get past the first mouthful :( ).
His acceptable foods over the years were very narrow and in the end it became a matter of going with the flow so we could get some food into him with out him listlessly withering away. I tried food therapy- letting him play with food, help me cook, letting his choose dinner, explaining ingredients, tested for coeliacs, deficiencies etc ... Anyway, I stopped forcing but kept trying and offering... age 9.5yrs now and he is still picky but he is willing to try new stuff and we have had some cool breakthroughs of new found favourites. He loves to read cooking books and loves to bake, I explain my cooking and get him to smell stuff like ginger, basil, garlic etc. His food repertoire is expanding and its awesome to see him enjoying food rather than it being functional to him.

His sister was a good eater without his problems... but did eventually pick up on his behaviour (grrrr)- hers was learnt behaviour most certainly.

The point of my rant? well... the years have changed my opinions- There is some research that points to that some peoples taste buds could be more sensitive meaning that taste and textures can be more intense and therefore creating "picky" eaters- these super taste buds may have a genetic component to them so you need to be careful about blaming nurture exclusively over nature (I'm sure nurture can and does play a role sometimes). There is also something called "selective eating disorder" which is worth reading about if you have an usually picky eater and have tried everything you can and want to understand the behaviour better.

I am fussy DP is less so and since I cook DD gets what I make and eat generally speaking. But I do offer her other things so long as there is someone else around to eat it if she doesn't like it lol. So if DP is round then he gets to eat a few things he didn't intend to :) I don't eat mince but she does, and sausages and things, she is going through a bit of a fussy stage in terms of vege and so we are just offering her what she likes to eat. Although she turned her nose up at broccoli the other day after asking for it over and over again a week earlier

No fussiness in this house.

We all eat everything. Im big on trying new foods or reintroducing foods that i didnt like just so DD has the chance to try new stuff.

I must be a real meany lol i tell DP he will eat what i dish up. I cook 24/7 and if it was up to him he would live off deep fried crap. Sometimes on occasion he will say he isnt eating it but he always does. He needs to lead by example.

So far DD eats everything. She never hesitates to try new foods either. She isnt too keen on meat but im not really bothered about that.

Now at nearly 3 DD will eat whatever we have. Curry, spicy food anything. We always eat dinner together and have the same thing.