Curtis Stone's opinion on picky eaters may irk you

by

Sara McGinnis

posted in Celebrities

Curtis Stone is letting his opinion on picky eaters be known, and I fear his words are going to be tough for some parents out there to swallow.

“Your kid is going to embrace whatever you expose them to, right, that’s just a fact of life,” the father of two recently said while promoting his cookbook Good Food, Good Life. “People tell you, ‘no, no my kid likes this or my kid likes that’. My opinion is, that’s just not accurate.”

For the record, the celebrity chefs says his kids eat a wide variety of foods including lots of fruit and vegetables, snails, foie gras and caviar. Pinkies up.

The 39-year-old husband of Lindsay Prince went on to say, “Someone said to me on a TV show in America ‘But how do you stop your kid from eating hotdogs?’ I’m like that’s pretty easy, my kid has never eaten a hotdog because it’s full of sh**.

“I don’t want him to have all the nitrates and crap that’s in a hotdog. Of course one day he will be invited to a party at a fast food restaurant and I’m not going to say no, you can live a life of course, but you are in charge of his day to day.”

Now I'm partially inclined to agree with Mr. Curtis Stone, because I think what you present to your children can make a big difference in their diets, but I also know a whole heck of a lot of healthy-eating parents who struggle mightily with picky eaters. As a matter of fact, one of my longtime friends (who goes so far as to make their family's bread in addition to cooking from scratch nearly all the time) was venting about her 9-year-old son not liking hardly anything.

A second friend of mine went the whole route of making her own baby food and never introducing her son to the 'crap' out there, but the boy was so stubborn about it he just wouldn't eat anything. It got to the point the doctor was concerned about his weight and advised her to feed him anything he would actually eat!

I get that if you've successfully turned out a not-picky eater or two (thankfully my two boys are fairly well-rounded) it's easy to think logically about the situation. Unfortunately I've seen parents try their very best and the battle become so much more complicated than that.

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