Ever since I was younger, I was known as my family’s picky eater. I would only eat a handful of foods which made my life a little more difficult at a young age. My parents often had to make a separate meal just so I could eat. I would usually eat before going to the gathering knowing that the food that was going to be served, I would have not liked it. My parents would make me try new foods trying to make me expand the foods that I would eat. A food that I have grown to like is Enfrijoladas which is a Mexican dish made of corn tortillas covered in a flavorful bean sauce. When I was younger, I did not like this dish. The bean sauce would make me not want to eat it. The taste was just not appealing. The brown color and the actual bean chunks made me feel uncomfortable to eat it.
Spitting out “moldy” noodles onto the ground, then 11-year-old Sr. Aby Rosema vowed to never touch noodles again. Though she didn’t realize they weren’t moldy, it was an experience that left her traumatized. Since then, she’s faced her fear of noodles, and now it’s a food she can’t live without. What about WO? Everyone has that one food they hated as a child that now they love. What foods did WO grow to love?
Being picky is not fun. Ordering something different than others at a restaurant just because one doesn’t like the food that they’re eating is something people just don’t want to do. No one wants to be picky with their food. Sometimes they can’t help it. Some people try to change that about themselves. Everyone has a food that they dislike in some sort of way. A question that some people ask is if they can outgrow their dislike of a certain food and if they will ever begin to like it. Many people can grow to like a food that they once disliked. There are steps one can take to overcome a dislike of food.“Noodles! I hated them when I was younger to the point that they made me gag. Slowly, as I began to get older, I started to love mac and cheese, Alfredo, and certain kinds of pasta too. I have a family who loves noodles. They made me try a couple of different varieties of noodles until they were able to find one that I liked. Now I’m okay with eating most kinds of noodles. They still aren’t my favorite but I definitely will order them at a restaurant if they look or sound good”-Sr. Rosma said.
There are many ways one can overcome their dislike of a certain food. One can overcome a dislike for food by trying to mix them in a food you like that can go well with. Some people just eat it until they like it. These methods work for some people but not for others. Everyone takes a different amount of time getting used to a certain food. For Senior Rosma, she started by trying many different kinds of noodles until she began to acquire a taste for them. Taking small steps and trying different varieties can help you to like that food you once disliked.
Some people don’t take these steps, they realize that their taste buds have changed all of a sudden. For Reitzel, this has happened. She explained that as she grew older and matured, her liking for asparagus changed “A food I’ve grown to like is lowkey asparagus. I’ve always hated it and I had to eat it with water and like choke it down but now that I’ve matured more it’s my favorite,” Soph. Maddie Reitzel said. She has grown to like it after not liking it for years
Some people like asparagus and some don’t. Just like Reitze, Sr. Mireya Sosa grew to like it as well! “I was very picky with vegetables. I never liked carrots, broccoli and etc. But when I grew up, my sister tried her best to make me food with it but I never liked any of it. It was a sensory thing on why I didn’t like some vegetables. Until I found out about asparagus, at first I was suspicious. The moment I took a bite of it, I enjoyed eating it with mashed potatoes. I still love it to this day,” Sosa said. We could see that she wasn’t the only one who grew to love asparagus. The tastes grew on her just like they did with Reitzel but in different ways. It is important to try other ways and strategies to develop a liking for a certain food. There is no right or wrong way.
