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[ajm200]

Why is it that little ones seem to love certain foods until

 

1. You buy an overpriced plate of the stuff when your out

2. You're with relatives and just proudly announced 'they'll eat anything'

3. You are having a really awful day but decide to make them their favourite

 

We're doing option 3 today it seems... I've had very little sleep, am full of cold and would love to take to my bed with a hot water bottle but can't.. so

I decided to make my son his favourite lunch.. macaroni cheese with a proper cheese sauce... as he always eats it and the smell of it might give me an appetite..

 

He look one look at it and politely refused to eat. Requesting some toast instead. Hope hubbies hungry tonight

 

Isn't it infuriating!

 

Rant over

[buffie]

Moved for you and deleted your last post

 

BBx

[BeckyBoo]

Poor you, they always time EVERYTHING perfectly as well don't they? Hope you feel better soon. My children grew up on Annabel Karmel, I had ice cube trays full of pureed this that and the other, now one will eat mash potatoes, one will only eat roast, one eats baked beans, the other hates them and only eats tinned spaghetti, one eats chicken skin but not the meat, the other only eats the meat but they won't share a piece of chicken the smallest boy won't be helped at dinner time but can't use a knife and fork properly yet so gives up half way through and eats with his fingers. He likes tinned spaghetti too - cue bright orange face, hands, t shirts, floor, table, it looks like he's been tangoed by the end!

I have to stand back nearly every meal time, take a deep breath and say, they won't starve, they won't starve, they won't starve.....and try VERY hard not to end up cooking three different meals every day (plus of course the meal for OH and I )

 

Mrs Bertie

[Snowy]

Why is it that little ones seem to love certain foods until

 

1. You buy an overpriced plate of the stuff when your out

2. You're with relatives and just proudly announced 'they'll eat anything'

3. You are having a really awful day but decide to make them their favourite

 

We're doing option 3 today it seems... I've had very little sleep, am full of cold and would love to take to my bed with a hot water bottle but can't.. so

I decided to make my son his favourite lunch.. macaroni cheese with a proper cheese sauce... as he always eats it and the smell of it might give me an appetite..

 

He look one look at it and politely refused to eat. Requesting some toast instead. Hope hubbies hungry tonight

 

Isn't it infuriating!

 

Rant over

 

Extremely!!!

 

love 'em to bits but they drive me bananas over food. I seem to spend all morning feeding my 3 year old. He's just gone to nursery but so far he's eaten:

cornflakes for breakfast,

a punnet of strawberries, a bowl of grapes, half a banana, a cheese string, a blueberry muffin throughout the morning;

I stopped giving him anything at 11am, then he spent the next hour complaining he was hungry until I caved in and gave him a round of tuna sandwiches for lunch at 11.45.

 

He probably won't eat any tea though

 

I have wormed him recently, honest!

 

Whereas the 5 year old won't eat anything but honey sandwiches and tinned spaghetti

[Mel (& Paul)]

the 5 year old won't eat anything but honey sandwiches and tinned spaghetti

 

 

together????????

[Seagazer]

I used Annabel Karmel for my last two kids. The eldest is so fussy, doesn't like chicken, lamb, sausages, rice. Only likes white bread, only carrots, maybe a few french beans etc. I don't know how he's grown to be nearly six foot but he is very frustrating. I do my own macaroni for him as he loves it - well last time he hardly ate any of it. He's gone off it apparently.

 

Trouble is YS is now starting to copy him although he has had a fantastic appetite.

 

We were never allowed to be fussy when I was younger, this is the trouble I think we let them get away with it now. I still dish up things I know they're probably not going to eat. You never know when they're going to like it again. Plus I know that come christmas I can get them to eat brussels sprouts! For some reason they eat them then but not the rest of the year.

[Lesley]

We were never allowed to be fussy when I was younger, this is the trouble I think we let them get away with it now.

 

I think you may have a point there!

I only had two choices - my children only had two choices - and I now only give Lauren and Jake two choices.......

 

"Eat it or leave it "......... and I put up with the consequences - the tantrums don't last long.........

[Tiggy]

step son now 17 will not eat anything red, except pizza topping, I asked him recently why, he's not allergic , his reply 'because I'm a pain in the a***e'

[ajm200]

step son now 17 will not eat anything red, except pizza topping, I asked him recently why, he's not allergic , his reply 'because I'm a pain in the a***e'

 

 

At least he's honest about it

[The Dogmother]

We were never allowed to be fussy when I was younger, this is the trouble I think we let them get away with it now.

 

I think you may have a point there!

I only had two choices - my children only had two choices - and I now only give Lauren and Jake two choices.......

 

"Eat it or leave it "......... and I put up with the consequences - the tantrums don't last long.........

 

I had the same, and so did Rosie. As you know Lesley, she eats virtually anything. If she won't eat what I have prepared (usually having told me the day before that she loves it ) then she goes without - she's sturdy enough not to starve if she misses a meal.

[BarbaraJ]

lol 95% of the problem is parents give them the choice.

 

mine are 21, 18 and 17 and they still get , well ths is what we are havng tonight, its that or go without. while i pay for food they aren't cooking themselves something else unless they miss the meal, i do save them some if they ask though!

No kid will starve themselves the unhealthy ones are usually the ones eating what they like, rubbish!

[ajm200]

I feel guilty now as I've just worked out why DS won't eat. He's got new two bottom molars coming through. He's not making a fuss but his mouth must be very sore...

 

He normally eats just about anything so I should have guessed

[abwsco]

We were never allowed to be fussy when I was younger, this is the trouble I think we let them get away with it now.

 

I think you may have a point there!

I only had two choices - my children only had two choices - and I now only give Lauren and Jake two choices.......

 

"Eat it or leave it "......... and I put up with the consequences - the tantrums don't last long.........

 

Same here as well Lesley Infact my daughters friends aged 15/16/17 are also made to eat veg if we're having it when they come here - lol No veg, no meal.

[BarbaraJ]

Programme on itv tonight 9pm, fussy eaters!

[Snowy]

Sorry if I gave the impression that mine are offered a lot of choice, they really aren't! They will eat half a meal, demand pudding (but I am very strict and refuse pud if they don't eat their tea)*, then an hour later start demanding honey sandwiches (Dad thinks these are a suitable breakfast, hence his liking for them ) or tins of spaghetti.

 

After saying little one wouldn't eat any tea, he polished off a full dish of pasta in tomato sauce with sausages and another punnet of strawberries

 

*this has started backfiring on me now - they look at whats on the plate for maincourse then state 'I don't want any pudding' and leave the table!!!

[BarbaraJ]

lol then they wouldnt get anything till morning here!

[Helen&Lee]

We were never allowed to be fussy when I was younger, this is the trouble I think we let them get away with it now.

 

I think you may have a point there!

I only had two choices - my children only had two choices - and I now only give Lauren and Jake two choices.......

 

"Eat it or leave it "......... and I put up with the consequences - the tantrums don't last long.........

 

When I was little my only choice given was to eat what was put in front of me.

My mums cooked veg was pressure cooked to within an inch of its life - not something I liked. Many a Sunday I was still at the table at 3pm with a plate of cold soggy veg in front of me, increasingly cross parents and it normally ended in tears.

Raw veg on the other hand I loved. My mum did give me other food during the week so I wasn't tortured with meat and two veg every night, I remember cod roe or pilchards on toast.

It wasn't until my twenties that I started eating VERY lightly cooked veg, even today Lee sometimes moans about the cauliflower being 'not quite cooked dear'

 

Helen

[BarbaraJ]

lol i remember being made to sit and eat runner beans for hours it seemed , still don't like them now.

Didn't do that to my kids but no pud unless dinner eaten!

[The Dogmother]

My nephew was very indulged as a smallster, and now he only eats about 4 or 5 things. And very little of that too.

[Egluntyne]

I've just watched a programme about children who are afraid to eat.

 

Scary stuff.

 

My dad used to say that when you were the youngest of ten you didn't say "I don't like" because nine others would snatch the item away before you had finished the sentence.

 

There might be something in it.

[Lesley]

*this has started backfiring on me now - they look at whats on the plate for maincourse then state 'I don't want any pudding' and leave the table!!!

 

Jake is a bit of a terror for this as well My - and my daughter's - problem is that Daddy (my SIL) tends to give in later on when Jake is 'starving' ........... and so the cycle goes on.......

[Egluntyne]

My mums cooked veg was pressure cooked to within an inch of its life

 

Same here!

 

It was practically a puree.

 

MIL used to put about a tablespoonful of soda " to keep the green's green"

 

Destroyed all taste and vitamin content.

 

They were cooked within an inch of their life too.

 

It is a wonder they didn't all die of Scurvy.

[Rhapsody]

I remember going to friends house for Xmas day and his mum put the sprouts on to boil same time she put the turkey in the oven (ie 3am).

I dont buy into fussy eating, Elder Son can be difficult but I just ignore it, but Younger Son is the amazing Salad Eating Boy, maybe I should put him up for the next sreies of Britains Got Talent

Can I just say the whole 'no pudding thing' I do not get. Apart from festivals and dinner parties, in my house there is the fruit bowl. I cant see the point of negotiating with a reluctant or faddy eater with more food as the currency.

[Christian]

My gran has a way of boiling veg so that it just keeps its shape. As soon as you put it in your mouth it turns to mush

 

I was told eat that or go hungry. Probably why I am so thin

 

I have vivid memories of sitting at the table on my own with a plate of sliced liver and green peppers The only meal they ever made me eat. In the end I cut the liver up and swallowed it with water :vom:

 

Haven't eaten liver or peppers since.

 

Scarred for life.

 

 

[The Dogmother]

Oooo, I lurve liver

 

My mother (for an Italian) hates cooking and cooks with a grudge - everything is boiled or cooked to within an inch of it's life and is totally tasetless. She just isn't interested in food at all except as fuel. My grandfolks were both very good cooks though.