People Are Sharing What A Common “Picky Eater Meal” Is In Their Country, And It’s Fascinating

"It's a type of cured meat with a sweet and savory flavor. It's often served with eggs and rice as a breakfast staple in The Philippines. You can substitute the pork for hot dogs, beef tapa (another type of cured meat), or boneless bangus (a delicious fish). Any type of fried protein, really." —u/time_significance

Recipe: Pork Tocino

"It's two slices of bread with hot ham and cheese in it. Also popular: gratin dauphinois (oven-baked sliced potatoes with lots of cream), quiche lorraine, quenelles (don’t really know how to explain this one but look it up, it’s delicious), hachis parmentier (Shepherd's pie but without vegetables), crepes, duck confit, and ratatouille." —u/flyingtwig

Recipe: Croque Monsieur

"You can think Ikea meatballs but homemade from better ingredients." —u/kermapyllyy99

Recipe: Finnish Meatballs

"When I lived in Ecuador as a kid, pretty much all I ate was salchipapas. It’s French fries with cut up hot dogs in it. Also popular in Colombia and Peru. Soooo good." —u/jebidiah95

Recipe: Salchipapas

"Congee is a popular food for Vietnamese kids but adults eat congee too, so there's really no concept of 'kids food' — except for liquid baby food. I grew up in Vietnam and as soon as I could chew properly, I just ate all the same food as the adults in my family." —u/lefrench75

Recipe: Chicken Congee

"It's a filet of chicken breast breaded and fried. To trick your kids into eating veggies alongside, you'd make them zucchini béchamel: imagine a lasagna but substitute the lasagna sheets for grilled long slices of zucchini. Tastes delicious actually, I loved it as a kid." —u/holyammo

Recipe: Chicken Pané

"Rice and masoor (red) lentils, onions, salt, pepper, turmeric powder, asafetida, all cooked in water until it makes a thick homogenous paste —u/[deleted]

Recipe: Masoor Lentil Dal with Rice

"Australian here. When I made spaghetti bolognese for my stepkids, who didn't like vegetables, I would finely chop broccoli, zucchini, cauliflower and whatever vegetable I had in the fridge. They had no idea." —u/sunsetsoiree

"Besides spaghetti bolognese, my picky eater also likes Jamie Oliver's hidden veggie sauce. I use it for pizza (obvs) but also pasta or anything that needs a tomato based sauce to boost the veg. I’m all about hiding the veg!" —u/cmac6470

Recipe: Spaghetti Bolognese

"Like chickpea, butterbean or cauliflower curries with coconut milk." —u/mrsgrayjohn

Recipe: Chickpea Curry

"In Korea, kids usually eat kimchi fried rice, kimchi soup with rice, and spicy stir-fried Korean rice cake (tteokbokki)." —u/bassguy69420

Recipe: Kimchi Fried Rice

"It's basically black kidney beans and rice. You can adjust the seasoning. It's so good." —u/metallicafan06

Recipe: Rajma Chawal

"Often made of leftover mashed potatoes and some flour. We’d have them with eggs and bacon. Not the healthiest but I used to really love it!" —u/fionnnnnnnn

Recipe: Irish Potato Pancakes (Boxty)

"White rice, fried egg on top, good squirt of ketchup on all of it. It's what I make when I don't really feel like cooking, though I'm willing to wait 20 minutes for rice." —2muchcaffeine4u

"The pinnacle of Cuban comfort food." —u/revolutionaryyam942

Recipe: Arroz La Cubana / Arroz Con Huevo Frito

"Meat patties or meat-filled pastries. Also, mackerel in tomato sauce with rice, and canned corned beef cooked in a pan with tomato sauce on rice, or mixed with mayo on hard dough bread." —u/saltporksuit

Recipe: Jamaican Beef Patties

"Israeli couscous is usually seen as a classic kids food. It's said kids are grown up when they start to prefer tahina over ketchup with their food." —u/rbrduk

Recipe: Ptitim (Israeli Couscous)

"It's essentially a meat and beer stew. It's eaten with french fries and apple sauce." —u/kuu_delka
Recipe: Stoofvlees

"My 2-year-old niece usually eats noodles with egg drop soup. Another common thing on family tables in China is “fried meals”, “fried in Chinese way”, a.k.a. “炒”. So kids eat 炒 food with rice or Mantou (Chinese bread)." —u/qian_yang

Recipe: Egg Drop Soup

"It's breaded thin meat (with beef or chicken) and you either shallow fry it or bake it. I think most kids love milanesas, and if you bake them it can be a healthy meal. We serve it with mashed potatoes." —u/art3mic

Recipe: Milanesas

"I'm from Northern Italy so I make a lot of risotto; my daughter loves it. She'll eat any veg if it's in a risotto. She loves it with fennel, or zucchini, or celery root, or peas. I occasionally also make it with pear and blue cheese — so good.

And all things pasta. Pesto is her favourite, which I always find amusing as it's green and quite complex flavour IMO. I always add extra veg to it, either zucchini, or green beans, or peas. Always a winner." —u/charliebobo82

Recipe: Classic Risotto