Feeding kid's friends real food

Anne_Marie_2

Loubee wrote:

apparently a certain part of the male pig's anatomy is also somewhat twisty, like a corkscrew :eek: :rotfl:

never knew that about male birds though-OS is proving very informative, on a wide range of subjects

:rotfl:
Can only agree with you, this board is wonderful in teaching you about things that you never ever wondered about, as well as all the things that you do need to know. Too much information sometimes, but surely no one can put a twizzler in their mouth anymore without thinking about it! Or what about those curly fries? :rotfl:
Sorry, should be ashamed of myself here!

loopy_lass

mmm and lets not even mention pork scratchings... now i know what they LOOK like, but i didnt think they circumsised pigs........ anyone need the sick bucket?

is it me?

loops

earthmother

I must admit, we have in the past been rather heavy handed in the use of processed food, but over the past months, we've worked hard to change that.

I have three boys - 5, almost 3 and almost 6 months, and when the smallest arrived I was determined not to feed him 'baby food' as we had the other two, but to have our meals good enough that he could eat off of our plates, and we have more or less done it.

A year ago (6 months even), eldest was very picky and would happily live on turkey dinosuars (eugh!) and peanut butter sandwiches with fruit shoots if allowed - now his favourite meal is when we pod our own peas and buy a piece of fish from the fishmongers, and he actually asks for water or fruit juice if we're out and he get's thirsty. Of course, middle son wants to do everything big brother wants (although he has always been better with his food anyway), and baby will never know different, so we've cracked it :j


And just so we could test our theory - at the request of the boys, and mainly for the Cars toys, we went to McDonalds last month for the first time in about a year (used to go as a treat every few months) - I am glad to say they came away having left most of the junk untouched, and asking for some proper food :rotfl: :j


One thing that has annoyed me though - everyone said 'send him for school dinners and he'll eat much more as he'll want to eat what his friends do' - well, after a term of school dinners last year, the only new thing he wants that has come from school dinners is tomato sauce (splatted on his plate by a dinner lady without asking him if he wanted it) - we have never put condiments of any type on the boys food, and I am still amazed that a school who make such a fuss of cooking everything on site from scratch has a bottle of Heinz on the table :mad:

Jay-Jay_4

***sneaks in and looks around uncertainly.... raises one hand a whispers ***

erm.... I use ketchup :eek:



ok ok.. I will hold my hand up high to this. It may contain sugar and salt BUT I buy organic ketchup and my DD2 is a fuss pot. I would rather she ate a home cooked casserole with ketchup (yes, even on casserole :rolleyes:) than junk food or go hungry. It's a compromise... I can do compromises

Smashing

Ain't no one taking away my ketchup.

earthmother

OK, so I was the ketchup kid - there were family jokes I'd have it on my cornflakes if I could, so I can't really talk - and we do have Organic at home now he's developed an interest, but the stuff they have at his school is the standard version - it's so annoying that just as we're improving his diet, they're adding junk into it again.

thriftlady_2

Ketchup is good for you especially if you are a bloke. Apparently it contains a lot of lycopene (?) which protects against prostate cancer. It's also brilliant for cleaning brass

Debt_Free_Chick

I use ketchup ....

but I make my own

thriftlady_2

You're going to have to share your recipe now DFC please

fesdufun

Janepig wrote:

I've found that the people who find it most amazing if you don't give your kids junk are health professionals!!! When DD was just coming up to her first birthday, she was admitted to hospital with a stomach bug, and because she was at it both ends, so to speak, I'd been told to give her Dioralyte which I was mixing with water. All the various nurses were expecting me to mix it with juice and were amazed when DD was drinking it with water, and looked at me as if I had six heads when I said she didn't have juice. And then I was made to feel like the cruellest mother ever when I was asked if I wanted to put a teletubbies video on and I said that she never watched tv (she does like the teletubbies now though). I thought what a way to encourage you to try and do the best for your kids!!


My youngest has been admitted to hospital on four occasions in the last two years and the food they offered was digusting.

I was expected to choose from the children's menu - chicken nuggets and chips, pizza and chips etc. for a 1 year old:eek: Breakfast was the healthiest option being a choice of cereal or toast but even then I was asked whether he wanted sugar on his weetabix. Also he was made to wait until 18.30 one day for his tea when at home it would have tea between 16.30 and 17.00. When I complained I was told that 1 hour or so wouldn't make a difference - they weren't the ones trying to console a ill, tired, hungry baby.