I’m a friend of food. I assumed that my kids would befriend food too. This was not the case.
Even though my kids ate healthy foods from the moment they were born, I’ve struggled – like most parents – with picky eating. You can read about our struggle in this post, which documents our ordeal in all of its shameful glory. In order to overcome this challenge, I decided to introduce 100 new foods to our kids. If you can get past the incident with the ghost pepper, these are their entertaining / funny / confusing / sweet / endearing / maddening / inspirational stories. And yes, they’re better eaters now.
Abate Fetel pears
Acorn squash
Alfalfa sprouts
Asian pear
Asparagus
Baby peppers
Bean sprouts
Beets
Bitter Melon
Black radish
Blood oranges
Broccoli rabe
Broccolini
Cactus pear
Canary melon
Cherimoya squash
Chinese lychee
Clementines
Coconut
Collard greens
Cuke-asaurus (really, that’s what it’s called)
Dandelions
Dates
Dragon fruit
Dried apricots
Edible flowers
Endive
Fava beans
Fennel
Figs
Ghost pepper
Golden beets
Golden raspberries
Grapefruit
Green cabbage
Green leaf lettuce
Guava
Guineps
Husk cherries
Indigo Rose tomatoes
Jicama
Kiwi
Kiwiberries
Kohlrabi
Kumquats
Leeks
Mangosteen
Micro greens
Mushrooms
Napa cabbage
Okra
Orange cauliflower
Parsnips
Passion fruit
Pattypan squash
Pea shoots
Pepino melon
Persimmon
Pomegranate
Pomelo
Pumpkin seeds
Purple sweet potatoes
Purple tritan radish
Radishes
Rambutan
Ramps
Red bananas
Red cabbage
Red lentils
Red mustard greens
Rhubarb
Romanesco
Rutabaga
Satsuma oranges
Sea beans
Spaghetti squash
Spinach
Starfruit
Starkrimson pear
Sugar baby watermelon
Summer Kiss melon
Sumo mandarins
Sunchokes
Sunflower microgreens
Ugli fruit
Watercress
Watermelon radish
Yams
Yellow Doll watermelon
Yellow lentils
Yellow squash
Yellow wax beans
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