Feeding kid's friends real food

elisebutt65

My 2 DS's are both sooo different.

Eldest DS is sooo fussy (he's slightly autistic) and would only eat pale food. Cheese, white bread, pasta and pizza with only cheese on, until recently . I have just gotten him onto having pizza with tom sauce(I can hide the veggies in that- lol). Had a minor breakthrough tonight as I popped into M & S this afternoon co I adore their taramasalata( I ain't even attempting to make that - lol) and he said he wanted a kids ready meal - I fell over - I never usually buy those things but he wanted fish!!!! OMG - I just had to buy the thing then and he ate it!!!!:eek: So guess I''' be going down the fishmongers and buying little bits of fish for him now and disguising it as M & S!! Also got him onto prawns and smoked salmon and roasties now as well, so I am getting there - slowly!

DS2 will eat anything as long as it's stopped moving!!!

I do have squash but like a previous poster said - it's Rock's Organic and they only have 1 cup a day with tea. Got them those plastic glasses with the straw wound around the cup from Whittards in the sale - lol. Otherwise it's milk with breakfast and water the rest of the time.


I came home the other day to find DS1 had brought home a mate from school (thanks for the warning) and he moaned cos there was nothing in my fridge apart from vegetables and champagne(thanks U-Switch):rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: He wouldn't even have a plain cheese sandwich in a baguette!!! Another one who wanted orange food. I did offer beans on toast but noooooo - had to be white bread only and I only had wholemeal and a baguette in. Sigh!!!

Becles

I'd put some beef in brown ale in the slow cooker. Later that day my son asked if his friend could stay for tea. I said it was the beef and brown ale, and I'd do some veg with it. The friend looked pleased and asked if I could mash the potatoes as they were his favourite, so I said yes.

The friend ate all his dinner and said he really enjoyed it, then piped up "and I don't feel wobbly at all". Turns out he was expecting to get drunk from the brown ale

Strepsy

Yeah, I must say I've found the opposite problem through the summer. Eldest especially had been invited to a few BBQs and has ended up having just some salad or a cheese slice on a roll. She won't eat sausages or burgers which seemed to be the staple for the ones she went to. Since the mad cow stuff I've never bought anything with cheap cuts in, they only have a small amount of lean meat so I did feel like we were being fussy. When one of them offered to get veggie burgers for her they got those ones stuck together with rice and they fell through the grates on the BBQ! She also didn't like the trifle at one because they'd used tinned fruit salad. I always seem to feel the need to use my own vegetarianism as the excuse of why they're 'strange' eaters, it's pathetic really...

I don't generally have many problems with friends coming for tea. If one of the kids asks for their friend to stay I will tell them what we're having and ask if they like it before agreeing. My youngest's bestfriend from next door paid me a lovely compliment last week after our HM cauliflower cheese and rice pudding with stewed apples and raisins, and said 'I wish I could have tea here every night'.

kiwichick

thriftlady wrote:

She asked me to keep a food diary for dd for a week and to bring it to the consultation.

Thats helped me out no end THRIFTLADY - THX!!! I've been trying to make amends for my childrens poor diet (processed junk) of late but am a bit despondent about the slow progress. I've decided I will keep a daily food diary for each child for the next week, just for me to see. Hopefully I will be able to see where I have made successful changes and identify things I need to work on. Will also REALLY help with the "5 a day" as I ashamed to admit that my eldest 2 very rarely eat 5 portions . DD2 on the other hand eats man size portions of everything going :A.

sophiesmum_2

elisebutt65 wrote:

My 2 DS's are both sooo different.

Eldest DS is sooo fussy (he's slightly autistic) and would only eat pale food. Cheese, white bread, pasta and pizza with only cheese on, until recently . I have just gotten him onto having pizza with tom sauce(I can hide the veggies in that- lol). Had a minor breakthrough tonight as I popped into M & S this afternoon co I adore their taramasalata( I ain't even attempting to make that - lol) and he said he wanted a kids ready meal - I fell over - I never usually buy those things but he wanted fish!!!! OMG - I just had to buy the thing then and he ate it!!!!:eek: So guess I''' be going down the fishmongers and buying little bits of fish for him now and disguising it as M & S!! Also got him onto prawns and smoked salmon and roasties now as well, so I am getting there - slowly!

You are doing really well with this, my second son now 19 is autistic and from ages 2 - 8 ate nothing at all except rice crispies with milk:eek: .Absolutely nothing else......not even sweets or anything. i had to add vitamin drops,and iron to his cereal and give him 5-6 meals of this daily. He never came to any harm though and has always had lovely skin,hair etc and in 19 years has never had a cold at all.He is now six feet two tall, the ideal weight for his height in really good health and will now eat cereals,mashed potatoes and chicken. In his whole life he has never eaten a fruit or vegetable,chocolate,sweets,biscuits, easter eggs,meat, fish,ready meal or fast food etc.i was given some advice when he was younger about autistic children possibly having bowel problems (similar to crohns)which can cause them to refuse foods.from weaning until two years my son vomitted every food we tried to give him and at two weighed just 20lbs- he was 9 lbs at birth, so we were quite happy when we finally found a food he could tolerate- rice crispies.

keep up the good work with your son but don't let it get you down with the small amount of progress.
sophiesmum

loopy_lass

my daughter was brough up mostly vegetarian and she had grapes, sultanas, cherries, chunks of cucumber & cheese as "sweets"... until my mother got hold of her at 3 yrs old and said she will have what i give her..... Meat, chocolate, sweets, puddings etc.... and thats when the tantrums, allergies, skin itches etc started... she was fine at my house, but boy did i know when she had been at mothers!!

anyways, she now eats good food with the occasional binge on junk, not the usual other way round, so all came good..

loops

chardonnay_2

i know the feeling with 2 stepsons who have totally different tastes it is extremely hard to find something they will both like. when we go to my mums we normally take food just for them. just wanted to point out that having something unusual at a friends house is for them to refuse / try, as you dismissing it (even if it is not the norm ) will seem just as rude to the parents as their kids refusing your homecooked foods.

gargoyle

I have a daughter at home that will only eat proper meals. She won't drink fizzy and prefers milk. So I intend to keep her that way. However I work in a nursery school and am always surprised at the rubbish some people feed their children. I had one 4 year old with chocolate spread sandwiches, crisps, chocolate biscuits, chocolate mousse and a chocolate bar!! All washed down with a can of coke. We had to explain to the parent the affects of a bad diet and how we were a healthy eating setting, she just replied "she's my daughter and that's what she's eating" Anyone else see the future problems for that poor child?

shell2001

Gargoyle

That is so sad. I cannot believe that anyone would do that to their child, in many ways its a form of child abuse.

I try very hard with my DD diet but they do have the occasional treat and it is occasional (infact cannot remember the last time they had chocolate). I am far from perfect but find this womans attitude unbelievable.

Guess you just have to bite your tongue - rather you than me.

Jet

My experiences;

DS friend asks for "orange juice", I serve him orange juice and he says "no, I meant the orange juice you mix with water". :rolleyes:

Same friend will only eat "breaded chicken" or sausages according to his mother.

Same child doesn't get fed at home until 9o'clock at night (he's 8 years old!). :mad: His mother NEVER feeds him ANY fruit or vegetables. She says "this Jamie Oliver thing has gone too far". :rolleyes:

Another child was eating chips as part of his dinner at mine (I relented that day! ), after gagging on the salad that was on his plate, he asked for more chips. I pointed out that he still had chips on his plate and he should finish them first. He then informed me that "I don't eat the ends of chips, only the middle bit" :eek: :rotfl:

After dinner mother of above child proceeds to wave a slice of bread around the front room (I only eat in the dining room) insisting that "he needs to eat something", he refused the bread, so she gave him a kit kat. :eek:

Is it me??!!