Food dislikes-as guest, but will politely eat

[shootingstar]

I warned my sons to watch how their girlfriends ate after each of them brought dates home who wouldn't eat right. One girlfriend came to my house for dinner and then ate nothing. (and then later, after she left my house she ate a box of cookies!). Another girl wouldn't eat good food because it was fattening. My son actually lived with her and her mother (who was the same way) for a while, and poor kid was starving. After all, it has been proven that pickiness is hereditary. Picky eaters bear picky eating children.

Taking mother's warnings to heart, both of my sons henceforth have brought home young women who like food. It's not a perfect system, for example, my new daughter in law is obsessed with bacon, but she'll try every veggie I serve and got excited when I bought some goat meat.
Everyone is entitled to a few dislikes (I don't like asparagus, thanks to a traumatic childhood experience with CANNED asparagus) and if someone tells me he's vegan and he's coming for dinner; I will make sure that at least rice or beans is on the table (in addition to lovely veggie dishes).
Reading this thread is mind blowing!

Generally speaking the spouses of siblings are pretty flexible. They each may have 2-3 types of foods they prefer not to have --like dearie who doesn't eat shrimp nor squid (triglycerides need control) and different levels of hot spicy tolerance, but overall potluck special occasion meals are opportunities for family members to cook and try dishes they normally don't have regularily.

Though there is junk food consumed at family events, they are food dishes that within our own extended family, people don't eat regularily. There is real appreciation and effort to prepare dishes that aren't overly rich/fattening nor too sugary. So no real need to "educate" an adult family member to be more health conscious or at least, semi-health conscious.


Jolt: I keep ketchup just for hamburger or hot dog..which i seem to have only 1-2 times annually. Seeing ketchup with scrambled eggs/omelet..on other plates just amazes me. Why cover up a lovely egg dish with that sugary stuff?

[Starfish]

Please don't feed me kidney pie, or put kidneys in the stew.