Main meals - do your kids eat what you do?

oystercatcher

When we booked our wedding reception a few years ago we had a set menu consisting of either chicken or salmon and all the extras, there was a starter and dessert etc etc . There were 25 adults and 3 children. The wedding organiser kept on and on...what are the children going to have ? She couldn't seem to grasp the fact that they were having the same as everyone else !!

I couldn't invite my family to a wedding and then feed their children on chicken nuggets and beans. This wedding organiser in a fairly posh hotel seemed to think that was the norm !

The children came , they ate the same as everyone else and were fine. They're not a different species after all.

Oystercatcher

Krystaltips

We mostly have the same things although DD sometimes goes through phases eg, for a while she wouldn't eat anything in gravy, now she does... For a while she wouldn't eat tomato pasta now she does... Currently she doesn't like things in white sauces (although she tried something on Sat for the first time so hopefully we're coming to the end of that) She is however one of the only 4yo in the country that won't eat pizza, sausages, anything battered or anything in breadcrumbs so that rules out most childrens menus... She does love salad though so if we're out I tend to order her a side salad or jacket potato... On the times when we want pizza or something in a white sauce... Or hubbies going to be really late and we want to eat together then I do her jacket potato with tuna mayo... It's her fave and she'd eat it every day given half a chance!

Becles

oystercatcher wrote: »

I couldn't invite my family to a wedding and then feed their children on chicken nuggets and beans. This wedding organiser in a fairly posh hotel seemed to think that was the norm !

We had that too, but I insisted the children had the same meal as the adults, and they all cleared their plates.

If the childrens menu is the standard junk food offerings, I usually ask if the children can either have a smaller portion from the adult menu or they have a starter as a main course. My parents were quite shocked when they looked after the boys one weekend and took them to the pub, and my youngest told them the childrens menu was nutritionally poor, so he would have king prawns with a chilli dip off the starter menu :rotfl:

3under3

Our children generally eat the same as us, although the twins aged 17 months have allergies which makes this more difficult. One of them is a real fuss pot and the other will eat anything but I refuse to pander to the fussiness - it's up to her if she want to pick at her dinner as no alternatives will be provided!

Eating out is really difficult with allergies and the safest thing the twins can have is chips, this is a shame as I feel they are really missing out but hopefully they'll outgrow this in a few years.

Emily_Hall08

Poppy9 wrote: »

I wish my family would make suggestions as I'm fed up with the answer "anything" when I ask what they fancy for food that evening/tomorrow! Then when I cook anything it's not what they want!!!

Try suggesting they make/help you make something new? They'll soon get ideas.

Emily_Hall08

tiamai_d wrote: »

Got to add this...

does anyone else feel there is a 'stigma' attatched to having a dining table in yoru livingroom (if its small)? I felt it was very Pauline from Eastenders!

But I have changed my mind.

maybe we could start a trend, dining tables in the small livingroom are cool?! (honestly) LOL! :rotfl:

That's what we have and it's fine! To be honest if it was in the kitchen I wouldn't like sitting at it so much, because I don't like the kitchen!

morganb

Our two eat the same as us and we all sit down together every morning and every night. The only thing I will relent on is mushrooms; they genuinely don't like them (although I can't understand that at all, they are the GREATEST veg in the world in my opinion) so I just stick them in to whatever I'm cooking after I've dished up their portion (much less painful than picking them out bit by bit!!)

We're lucky in that we have a separate dining room so there are no other distractions. Last night I pretended I was a mad waitress serving up their dinner and they thought it was hilarious. Incidentally, they prepped dinner last night (pesto wrapped chicken parcels) and it was DELICIOUS.

Krystaltips

Morgan, DD dislikes mushrooms too and will pick out big lumps herself now... But I tend to chop a couple really small and mix them into the sauce of whatever we're having so she gets them unwittingly... I think it's a texture thing with her, mushrooms can be a bit slimy sometimes...

Emily_Hall08

I think with most people who don't like mushrooms, which sadly seems to be quite a few people, it's usually the texture. I can't understand it either, they're amazing!

morganb

Krystaltips wrote: »

Morgan, DD dislikes mushrooms too and will pick out big lumps herself now... But I tend to chop a couple really small and mix them into the sauce of whatever we're having so she gets them unwittingly... I think it's a texture thing with her, mushrooms can be a bit slimy sometimes...

Believe me, I've chopped as tiny as my little hands will let me, they can spot them a mile off and I'd rather give in and not put them in their meals than endure 45 minutes of them inspecting every mouthful.