My children are fed up with OS :(

arkonite_babe

Like the sound of that one HOLsale, might be worth looking up

Penny-Pincher!!

Hi

My dd sometimes plays up with her food, but havent been true OS for long (about 12 months properly cooking from scratch 99% of time) and before this we had take aways 4 times a week, sometimes more. So she has come on a long way.

I, like you, cook wholesome food and she likes the majority of it-toad in hole, shepards pie and roasts are her fav. The only thing she doesnt like is stews, she will eat it all seperately but not together

Getting them involved is good idea as they normally want to taste what theyve helped with.

DD now knows that if she dont eat her tea, she doesnt get anything else till the next meal/morning. Sounds harsh, but we dont ask alot and only ask her to eat 1-2 portions of veg a day and the other 3/4 is fruit.

Good Luck

PP
xx

Pooky

HOLsale wrote:

you would probably appreciate a copy of a book my dh got me for christmas

Great Lies to Tell Small Kids
Andy Riley ISBN 0340834056

one of my favourites from the books is 'mice eat our dandruff as cornflakes for breakfast' :rotfl:

I've got that - I was in tears first time I read it - I like the "milk feels pain" and the one that says "wine makes mummy clever"....so true!

Mrs_Miggins_2

I can only sympathise - my 2 (4 and 6) are similar. I have worked out though that they are more likely to eat deconstructed food - ie everything served seperately - bowl of pasta, bowl of tom sauce, bowl of meat, bowl of cheese - instead of spaghetti bolognese. I don't know if they're suspicious of what I might try to sneak in! They also don't like anything "wet" - so stews with gravy etc are refused - I have watched my youngest drying the components of a casserole with kitchen paper when she realised it was that or nothing!
I agree that the only way is to starve them into it - we had some success with a sausage casserole the other day (with rice soaking up the wetness). They'll thank us when they're older...
I remember moaning all my childhood about only getting organic home grown in season veg and fruit...
Hang on in there

HOLsale

Pooky wrote:

I've got that - I was in tears first time I read it - I like the "milk feels pain" and the one that says "wine makes mummy clever"....so true!

dh loves the 'milk feels pain' one too... i think it's the look on the girls face :rotfl:

the book actually reminds me of this yarn i spun when i was about 15 and my cousin joe was 9...

where we lived we were near the toll road (this was indiana, usa) off the toll road there were these huge conical shapped buildings where they kept the road salt

i managed to convince my cousin that they were TeePee's on an indian reservation! I told him that the indians were very poor until they made a deal with car manufacturers that they would spread salt on the roads in the winter. everyone was happy because they knew the salt melted the ice and they were safer driving but the real plan was for the salt to rust away the cars and thus insure that people would buy new cars! i explained that the 'teepee's' were cleverly hiding all this salt (and said they put extra salt out when no one was looking so the cars would rust faster!)

he bought it hook line and sinker and his dad was laughing so hard he nearly wrecked the car! :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

HOLsale

Mrs_Miggins wrote:

They also don't like anything "wet" - so stews with gravy etc are refused - I have watched my youngest drying the components of a casserole with kitchen paper when she realised it was that or nothing!

:rotfl: :rotfl: :T :rotfl: :rotfl:

this made me laugh so hard i cried! :T

my daughter (4) also has 'issues' with 'wet' things. she's not a sauce person. she'll eat condiments like ketchup that's fine but dont' pour sauce on something.

she's perhaps the only child i've ever known that doesn't like pizza or mac and cheese :eek: she likes the pasta, likes cheese but it's sauce issues

she'll pick the bits off the pizza and even lick the sauce off but won't eat it all together!

but she will eat soup, sometimes but she prefers it pureed... perhaps that gets over the 'lumpy things with sauce on them' issue as it's ALL SAUCE then i suppose

as a kid i hated peas (mom only fed us tinned peas) but loved pea soup
hated oatmeal (porridge) but was happy to eat oatmeal cookies
hated green beans (again tinned) but happily ate green bean casserole

i was actually a good eater and very adventurous eater (still am) but everyone has their idiosyncracies... course when they're really young they'll really expand on those idiosyncracies if allowed to so best to nip it in the bud and just give in on the few things you know they genuinely don't like

for dd it's mushrooms and cantelope... the mushrooms is like blasphemy in this household but to each their own and more for me

Sofa_Sogood

black-saturn wrote:

My children are fed up with Old Style meals and me cooking everything from scratch. I've tried burgers, chicken nuggets, pizzas etc etc home made but they turn their noses up at it. I cant get them to eat anything from the slow cooker without them moaning about it all the way through. So tonight I've resorted to frozen fish fingers, frozen garlic bread, frozen chips and frozen onion rings. In the past I would have made all those myself but I'm fed up :rolleyes:

This is really going to go against the grain of OS, but I've read this time and time again.

You can't force kids to eat an OS way of cooking or eating. They'll eat what they want and when they want.

When I took mine to the doctors about their eating habits, he said, more or less, "so what - at least they're eating" even though it was crisps and sweets.

Sometimes I find the whole OS way of living a bit cruel ... why put your kids through what your Grandparents went through type of thing ....

Other times I think it's a great way to live. But it's up to you and what you can afford and what you want your kids to eat.

Good luck

Curry_Queen

Reading through this thread has had me in stitches, so much so, I've almost woke the boys up with my laughing :rotfl:

My current "food battle" is with my eldest two boys (17 & 20) as youngest DS has been used to my OS cooking for quite some time now and will happily turn his nose up at pre-made processed food, although he's taken a recent dislike to stews which is one of my favourite meals to cook! :rolleyes:

My main problem is finding something they will all eat as I refuse to cook separate meals for everyone, although this is where having extra meal portions in the freezer comes in handy so if they don't like what's on offer then can re-heat something else themselves. I made spag bol the other night, usually a firm favourite, and DS2 said "I'm not eating that it's got peppers and mushrooms in!" :rolleyes: ... well tough, go without then :mad: ... he did, and had a chicken sandwich instead :rotfl:

He used to eat my cooking no problem when he was younger but I think he's been fed a diet of junk/processed food the last couple of years so has forgotten what real food tastes like! He only eats with us 2-3 times a week though so not a great problem, but I'm going to make sure he gets some proper food when he's here LOL!

Eldest isn't too bad and is reasonably happy to try my HM meals, although given an option he'd eat junk too, but he certainly needs some lessons in OS me thinks after coming back from the shop with tins of Heinz sponge pudding last night :eek: ... told him I could have made half a dozen for what that cost and in the time it took him to go to the shop, open the tin and heat it up! :rolleyes:

I think some serious meal-planning is on the cards, along with a list of likes and dislikes so I can start to re-introduce new foods, especially veggies (or at least hide them in meals! ) ... it's like having toddlers in the house again LOL! :rolleyes:

mattt44

Sofa_Sogood wrote:

This is really going to go against the grain of OS, but I've read this time and time again.

You can't force kids to eat an OS way of cooking or eating. They'll eat what they want and when they want.

When I took mine to the doctors about their eating habits, he said, more or less, "so what - at least they're eating" even though it was crisps and sweets.

Sometimes I find the whole OS way of living a bit cruel ... why put your kids through what your Grandparents went through type of thing ....

Other times I think it's a great way to live. But it's up to you and what you can afford and what you want your kids to eat.

Good luck

An old style way of cooking, is mostly just good cooking isn't it? And far from being cruel you are giving them a better start in life than the kids who get chips and pizza everyday.

This is an issue thats bothering me as well. My two year old had suddenly started not wanting to eat alot of foods, which bugged me as I've always eaten anything my whole life, I started to get annoyed and tried to make her eat the food, which made it worse.
So I changed tack and tried to make mealtimes more fun and started eating my food in a funny way and she copied. Result!

Won't work on older kids though

MATH

Sofa_Sogood wrote:

You can't force kids to eat an OS way of cooking or eating. They'll eat what they want and when they want.

Sometimes I find the whole OS way of living a bit cruel ... why put your kids through what your Grandparents went through type of thing ....

Good luck

Thanks for a post that offers another perspective Sofa Sogood.

I agree that force is not the best way to train our children in healthy eating and a lot of the earlier posts (mine included) are tongue in cheek. But we have to remember that they are children and we are adults - the responsibility ensuring they are eating a healthy, balanced diet which will give them the very best start in life is ours not theirs. If we do not train them to eat well and they grow up to have weight, health and nutrition issues the blame will be laid at our door not theirs.

The comment about what our grandparents went through I do not understand.

Now: Overprocessed, chemical laden food with little nutrition and causing blood sugar spikes and hyper activity.

Then: Fresh produce full of vitamins, no colours, no chemicals.

I'm very lucky that my kids have had a healthy diet from birth and beg me to make stew and dumplings and love cabbage (they do - really) they also love Maccy D's but understand that this is a treat (yes I'm guilty of making junk a treat too:o ) I can understand that it would be much harder to steer a child away from a junk food diet if that is what they have been used to.