I was a very fussy eater as a child and I would say that I now eat about half of the foods I used to hate. I was odd in that I loved most vegetables, it was other things I couldn't tolerate like seafood, brown bread, soup with bits in.... my mum had a rule that I had to try food at least once, I wasn't allowed to say I didn't like it if I hadn't tried it, but after that, if I really didn't want to eat something she never made me. This was good, as it has turned out that a lot of the things I didn't like are actually bad for me as I cannot digest them properly.