My children are fed up with OS :(

jcr16

i can fully understand how u feel.

my 2 yr old girl. used to eat everything. (never really liked carrots or brocili tho ) she loved spag bol ,pasta , roasts , etc etc. but now evening meals are a nightmare. if she could she would eat waffles and sausages every night.
but she does eat very well through day. for breakfast she has 1 slice of bread and jam , or toast . bowl of shreddies and couple pieces of fruit. she eats fruit all through out the day as a snack. has sandwich or noodles for lunch , a youghurt and again fruit. she drinks about 2 pints of whole milk a day. so i not really to bothered she not wanting an evening meal. but i wish she would just try the food. she never used to eat so much through the day. but i just think she is more of a snacky eater than a main meal person. she just says yuck to anything other than fruit.
but she did eat some chicken at lunch today with i was very pleased with.
we just don't make an issue of it . we give it to her and we all sit at dinning table and if she eats we really praise her and if she doesn;t then we don't make a deal out of it.

Spendless

On our way to school this morning DS (aged 5) asked to go on packed lunches instead of school dinners cos "they make him put things like salad on his plate to try":rolleyes: (his school has healthy eating status for their dinners). So I told him what my idea of a packed lunch would be like. Once he realised he would be getting things like water, fruit, and only very limited crisps and chocolate (ie not every day) he'd changed his mind by the time we got to the school gates which is 2 minutes from our house!:rotfl:

b-s- is it because you are doing a 'hm' alternative to junk food (pizzas, burgers etc)they are objecting. What about hm food where there isn't a 'take-away' equivalent, shepherds pie for example, or jacket potatoes where they can choose from a variety of toppings.

Not quite the weather yet, but do you have room to plant any veg/herbs? Could they help with that, and do you think they'd be more inclined to eat it if it was something they had seen start from scratch.

Good Luck

Mado

Spendless wrote:

b-s- is it because you are doing a 'hm' alternative to junk food (pizzas, burgers etc)they are objecting. What about hm food where there isn't a 'take-away' equivalent, shepherds pie for example, or jacket potatoes where they can choose from a variety of toppings.

You have a very good point there: Don't try to copy unhealthy styles because you will never add up the fat/salt and falvouring that they pile up.

Create your own and it generally goes down better.

My DD loves homemade chicken nuggets... while DS doesn't!!!! Sometimes you can't win.

mrcow

black-saturn wrote:

My children are fed up with Old Style meals and me cooking everything from scratch.

.................... I'm fed up :rolleyes:

Poor you!! I know how you feel. The more effort a meal takes to prepare, often the more likely you'll get a turned up nose towards it!

I agree, how about letting them cook or meal plan on a weekend?

I also find themed nights (ie. chinese with chopsticks/ build your own burgers / top your own pizza) always go down a treat.

How about buying your kiddies a cookbook between them, and getting them to do the whole thing from scratch? Might make them appreciate your efforts a little more?




.....or you can do what I usually resort to, and tell them that there are children tonight that have no food to eat at all, so "stop moaning and just eat it up". :rolleyes:

Sarahsaver

DS aged 5 made our coleslaw this evening, he was so proud of it:) I think children tend to try something more willingly if they have made it themselves. DD made pancake mixture yesterday - the most perfect I have ever seen. She too is fussy, but she still contributes, like picking the wild mushrooms which were with the pasta yesterday.

Becles

Do you know anybody really obese or unhealthy?

We know someone who is seriously overweight, simply because he's very lazy, doesn't work and lives on beer and junk food. Everytime mine complain about good food, I say "yeah, you eat all the junk you like, but don't come complaining to me when you end up fat like Steve". That shuts them up and makes makes them eat up

MATH

Stick with it Black Saturn and they will come round or die of starvation:p I always plan a junky meal on Saturday nights which we eat like sluts on trays in front of the telly. The rest of the week they eat what I cook, at the table, using cutlery and napkin correctly or go without.

TBH I don't have many complaints cos they have been fed OS since being weaned (oh how grateful I am that they have never known any different) If they do complain I explain that they have the option of starving to death and tell a tale of how people lost in the desert have drunk their own wee and eaten dead snake just to stay alive, then add the sinister threat that the next meal may not be as apertising as the one before them. hehehehe They soon tuck in!

Remeber you are the adult so behave like one and resort to emotional blackmail, threats, disception and tantrum throwing if necessary.

My action plan would be (in no perticular order):

1. Use plenty of the food stuffs you know they like.
2. Reduce the portion sizes, better to eat it and have seconds than struggle.
3. Adopt an 'am I bovvered' attitude - let the rugrats starve (they won't)
4. Always have a tasty OS pudding to follow to encourage them.
5. Have a junky night and throw caution and dietry sense out the window.
6. Think up funny names for HM dishes. "Roadkill stew" and "Morgue off cuts" are two of our favourite dishes. hehehehe
7. Remind them every day of the agonising labour you suffered just to bring them into the world, add realistic screams and some writhing if necessary.
8: Tell them you are cooking something foul (like tripe or braised gizzard) then appear to change you mind and offer the original dish you were cooking anyway.

Good luck

Bennifred

MATH wrote:

Remeber you are the adult so behave like one and resort to emotional blackmail, threats, disception and tantrum throwing if necessary.

Good luck

Works for me!:beer: :rotfl: :rotfl:

Skintmama

Black Saturn,
No advice I am afraid but it did remind me that our children don't always realize how well off they are.
DS apologised to his friend as he gave him one of my HM mince pies that his mum had made them, saying they were not as nice as bought ones. His friend ate it up said it was very nice and pronounced that his mum never made them, he didn't think she knew how. The look of astonishment on DS's face was worth a lot!
So that's it really, junk food is for those with no time or without the knowledge/skills to cook real food (and I don't judge anyone for that). You have the skills and make the effort to cook for them, they are blessed. But don't expect them to realize!

Rebob

MATH - That was good that!!!! Tears running down my face.