My children are fed up with OS :(

HOLsale

MATH wrote:

That'll be the McHaunted then!;) :rotfl: I actually enjoy a maccyD's - does that make me bad?

well i enjoy a good whopper from bk once in awhile or a filet tower meal from kfc..

but having done vast quantities of fast food mystery shopping in my past i gave up doing them as it really became foul!

HOLsale

barjam wrote:

my kids like most kids like the rubbishy foods ie mac donalds etc (so do i) but kids also love meals that are home made ie soup, lasagnes,sunday roasts with veggies etc... i have never ever forced it onto them they just appreciate it ages are from 8yrs up to 20yrs and my 9yr old son will always try anything even if it looks awful he will still have a taste:D

ahh hunger, the ultimate in persuasion tools :rotfl:

i don't think i've ever met a 9 year old that wasn't constantly hungry!

that's brilliant though that he will try things so willingly

i tend to try a slew of new things on dd when she's on a growth spurt as she's so hungry she'll try everything without complaint. i then try to reintroduce foods she's rejected before

we've had great success with this as she now thinks that broccoli (trees!) are the best veg ever... in fact yesterday she picked out 5 heads (i put 3 back, i don't like it that much!) and then at home she asked for it raw and ate it! now that's brave, i don't even like it raw due to the texture :T

she now admits things are tasty and asks for them so i think we're getting there!

VickyA_2

My OH claims that he began to eat more food when he wouldn't eat apple crumble one day. His dad told him that if he didn't eat it, then he'd get it for breakfast. OH didn't eat it................. and in the morning, his breakfast was apple crumble (and nothing else). OH still didn't want it, so he was told that if he didn't eat it, then he'd get it for lunch. OH didn't eat it.............. and it was brought out at lunchtime. OH ate it then!!!!

THIRZAH

Ive found that since we've gone to cooking virtually everything from scratch that we don't like processed food anymore- not that we ever ate much of it. I had a chinese takeaway at my Dad's last week and it was really hard to eat enough of it to be polite. I used to buy the bottled pasta sauces occasionally- mainly to leave for DDs if I had to go out but now can't stand the smell of them.

OS is good for the health and the purse but can make it difficult when eating out or visiting.

Queenie

Sofa_Sogood wrote:

... 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 ....

:think: Oh I don't know ... serving up Pigs Trotters certainly puts a new spin on "This L'il Piggy Went to Market (and *that* l'il Piggy would have been better off staying at home!" ...

... and a Sheep's Head on a platter now and again to the rendition of "What d'ya wanna make those eyes at me for ... ?" is hugely entertaining.

They only really complain when I send them up the chimney (with no supper) as punishment for not eating up their Bread & Pullit

Seriously though ... what do you think we're feeding our families (as Old Stylers)? My boys don't think they're being treated cruelly .. well, maybe when they tell their mates about the beetroot in choccy muffins they might begin to think that way - but that would just be them bowing to peer pressure

Mr P - good old compo rations, eh! :rotfl:

larmy16

Many years ago I remember my ds now 19 going through not wanting to eat proper meals etc. So I went on strike, without really saying so, got in a load of crisps and sweets and junk etc. I just stopped cooking and told him if he was hungry to help himself to the junk, though I never called it that.

After a couple of days he was begging for a proper meal, which I made out was really too much hassle and I wasn't really into cooking anymore and it was easier just for him to eat the crisps etc.

Who says mental and physical torture is always bad for your child ??

PS I did start cooking again

Ticklemouse

HOLsale wrote:

but having done vast quantities of fast food mystery shopping in my past i gave up doing them as it really became foul!

I too did lots of this and gave it up as a bad job. I don't like 'fast food' nowadays - in fact when we went to Maccy D's the other w/e (we were waiting to go somewhere, DS1 only ate half and DS2 didn't touch as much as a morsel of salt (that was money wasted )

I feed my next door neighbour's sons every night and they love it, esp the ever hungry 13yo. Today he told me that he'd had cookery (or whatever the 'new' name for it is.) They'd had to make sausage rolls - and HAD to use bought pastry. He even said that once when being 'taught' how to make pizzas, a girl had brought in HM pizza base and HM tomato sauce, which she'd made with her dad the night before - she was marked down as they had been instructed to bring in shop bought bases and tomato puree. Now, you can imagine MY thoughts on such a matter (red rag and bull xome to mind) - and 13yo agreed with me. He now says "why be told how to feed yourself junk which is full of additives when you can make your own which is better and cheaper?"

Now- if I can just get my 3yo to eat, all my problems will be solved

rainbowkanga

I've got three kids and think its perfectly normal that they have fads and moans about food - I guess for children its one of their ways of taking control/exerting influence. I think the trick is - as much as their is one- is to try to keep calm, firm, and not let it get you down - knowing that that it will pass. I think also its worth looking at their diet over a month rather than letting one particular moany meal time get you down. I don't think its anything to do with OS myself, I think all kids do it. Also not sure before I came across this site what OS was! To me its just normal cooking!
Chin up!

mattt44

Ticklemouse wrote:

Today he told me that he'd had cookery (or whatever the 'new' name for it is.) They'd had to make sausage rolls - and HAD to use bought pastry. He even said that once when being 'taught' how to make pizzas, a girl had brought in HM pizza base and HM tomato sauce, which she'd made with her dad the night before - she was marked down as they had been instructed to bring in shop bought bases and tomato puree.
Now- if I can just get my 3yo to eat, all my problems will be solved

That is abolutely BONKERS!

What is the world coming to etc

<goes and has a lie down>

thriftlady_2

My thoughts exactly,that just makes me furious.I'd be up at the school demanding an explanation.