When do you start training your children to eat spicy food? I totally love spicy food but haven't been able to 'enjoy' it much when i go out 'cos we always have to buy food which the kids can eat... Anyway, how do you mummies 'train' your kids to eat spicy food? Do you introduce it to them? Or do they request to try?

You can begin with trying out mild spices like; cinnamon, ginger, turmeric, asafoetida, turmeric. And later graduate to cumin, garlic, coriander, clove, chilly etc. While they are small, say, one-year-old, one has to start introducing them to mild spices. Once, they develop a taste of them eating them regularly, introduce them to other spices as well. Make their favourite dish and introduce the spices slowly and steadily. It is such a gradual process that you wouldn't even come to know how they developed the taste of spices. http://www.fieldsofflavor.com/taste-bud-development-in-infants/