Help!!Ben,I can't find your new website!Tell us all what it is please..love hearing all these stories nearly as much as Bovril sandwiches!
Sarah

Hi Sarah,

the website address is:

www.fussy-eaters.com

see you there

Elissa

Hello everyone,
I too am a fussy eater, I have a real problem with eating meat that has an animal name e.g. I can't eat chicken, fish, lamb, duck but can eat sausage, bacon etc as it doesn't resemble an animals name. I'm not vegetarian as I don't really like veg and will only eat peas and carrots, it's something about the water content in veg.
Like others I can't pin point anything specific as to why I am fussy.
As many have said I also dread going out for meals especially at work as I quite often can't have anything off the menu and end up hungry but tell people I'm not hungry!
Is there anyone else out there like me??????

I knew this would end up runing another relationship of mine my boyfriend who i've been seeing for a month is a chef and now wants to cook me dinner...I can't actually tell him erm well you can if you're cook me chicken and chips becuase he will then find out i am a freak arrrrrrghh this bleeding thing hanging over my head is actually pushing me into depression. Any help?

Hey,

I've always found that the best policy is to be honest. If he doesn't understand then it's his problem not yours. I've found that by being honest people are more accepting about the problem, however there are still people that just don't get it.

Hope things go well, be assured your not the only "freak".

Elissa
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I agree with Elissa its best to be honest about your eating my boyfriend has turned out to be my biggest support . And you are not a freak it takes all sorts of people to make the world go round .

hi to john from the farm of fussy eaters i would just like to say i watched a few episodes and found it to be a lot of people out there have a fussy eating habit i have lived with john for over 11 years and he never wanted to try anything new it was very sad for us because as the years grew we grew very much in love our relationship began falling apart because of it and it has so broken my heart because i loved john so much and still do i really wished thing could be different as i think we could still be together i miss him so much even with a fussy eating habit john i wish you could read this right now and tell me you still love me too ........all my love to you forever lyn xxxxxxxx

Hey guys,
Have any of you seen 'Freaky Eaters' on BBC3?
Also another programme that offers help for this issue.

[link]

Ax

I am 15 years old and for as long as I can remember I have been a 'fussy eater' (I hate that term, it makes it sound as if we do this by choice). The prospect have trying new foods has been something that has constantly haunted me, along with the embarrassment and humiliation that comes when going to friends houses and their parents asking me what I want to eat. I feel so pathetic and isolated when I tell them that basically, all I eat is: chips, potatoes (baked potato has to be just the white bit, no skin. no mashed potatoes either), crisps, biscuits, cereals and toast. As well as some other things such as ice cream and dessert foods. I tend not to have a problem with breakfasts or desserts but infact main meals. This feels like it's beginning to take over my life, friends are constantly going out for meals and I just stay at home because there'll either be nothing on the menu that I will eat or I know just how embarrassed I'll feel when all I order is chips. It's getting to the point where I actually dread leaving the house incase I can't get anything to eat, I'm okay in town centres where there are places like McDonalds, but when it comes to restaurants and peoples houses, I freeze. I am due to go to my boyfriends house for tea tomorrow and I am absolutely dreading it. I've told him i'm a 'fussy eater' but I don't think he realises just how much of an extent it is; I think he thinks i'm just being picky (which I'm not). I don't know what I'm going to do without sounding pathetic or ending up embarrassed as I'm sure his parents will strike a conversation about my rather odd eating habits. But for me trying new food has always been a horrible experience, I find that I won't try anything if I find the smell odd or nasty and I have trouble with different textures and tastes. As yet I have not seen any doctors, physicians, dieticians etc. I think my mum just thinks it's a phase and I'll either break out of it or just carry on how I have been. I don't think she understands what a horrible experience this is for me.

It's been refreshing to say the least, reading some of these comments and knowing I'm not alone, I'm not isolated. I know it doesn't help my problem but it helps my heart. Can anyone tell me if I actually have a phobia of food? I know some of you mention having phobias of food as well as disorders. Any suggestions what this is for me?

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