I don't know about your house but I have a picky eater for a husband. The word picky doesn't even begin to describe him. Even if it's a food he has been eating for years and he walks out into the kitchen and sees me making it and thinks I put something in it he "won't" like - all of a sudden he no longer likes that food. So the rule of thumb is if he is home while I am mixing the ingredients he can not come into the kitchen! I tried letting him fend for himself or stave once - but that was more bother than it was worth!
To compound this issue our eight year old took after her father in this area! Talk about a tag team in the kitchen! Enough to drive a person crazy. Our oldest daughter on the other hand loves eat all kinds of fruits and veggies and try new things. Nothing too too wild mind you but more adventurous than the other two. You know the surprising thing is every so often he gets in a mood to try something and always ends up liking it. These are far and few between but they do happen. Hummus was the result of one of those times when he wondered off the path to the dark side of tasting new foods and he LOVES it! Bar B Q chips were another item. I thought they were safe in the pantry one time when I went away and after 10 years of being together he tried them and can't get enough of them. He even texted me a photo of the empty bad that day! Good he did or if I had found it when I got home the poor dog would have been in trouble for eating them lol.
My two new kitchen helpers are the Vitamix and the Kitchen Aid Mixer. Today I made a Chocolate Chip Zucchini Cake w/ Chocolate Chips! Sounds yummy right? Well, last year he saw me make it and saw a tiny itsy bitsy piece of green fleck in the cake and you would have thought the man was poisoned. Well I have found my Vitamix is a way to add in ingredients and no one knows the difference! Check out the Food/Recipe page for how to make this yummy cake! Let me know if your picky eater likes it too!
