Feeding kid's friends real food

nearlyrich

I never fed my children (or their friends) junk either and they both have a love of good food, cook and eat vegetables for themselves. Mcd's to us is just somewhere to grab a coffee and/or use the loo although the cleanliness of most of them has slipped massively since my two were small so I don't even do that anymore.

msmicawber

My children are very finicky eaters, particularly my son. I've always cooked the majority of my meals from scratch, and made HM baby food when they were at that stage, yet there's still loads of things they won't eat ... including things they would request specially a few months ago. It drives me mad. I get so enraged, though, when I hear remarks like "well, heaven knows what they get at home ...". My little blighters get good, well cooked, fresh food, but would rather have rubbish (and I'm the woman who thought that the Turkey Twizzler was a joke invented by Dead Ringers!:eek: )

I did hear in a programme the other day on Radio 4 that some people can't taste bitter flavours, whereas others are very sensitive to bitter flavours and that this could be the problem with many 'fussy eaters'.

jellycat40

sarahsaver I think you have a bit of a nerve to say that all the people in McD are fat/mingers. I have been known to frequent the establishment and I am neither of those things, neither are my children.

We do not eat there regularly, in fact my daughter is restricted to once amonth in a burger restauarant and I am veggie so usually have a coffee and a plastic apple pie!!! However, it is far from true to say that everyone is fat and ugly just because they are in McD.

On the whole I agree with the take it or leave it argument of the thread over all. We try hard not to eat processed foods on a regular basis. I enjoy cooking for my family from scratch although it can be expensive to buy locally, organic or wholefood it is worth the expense.

Louise

rosy

I remember one time when DS's friend came for tea. It was roast chicken. He was absolutely gobsmacked - he had never seen a whole cooked chicken come out of an oven before. Also was incredulous on another occasion when it was quiche - he didn't believe I could have made it. Same with the Victoria sponge. I know by now I shouldn't be surprised at this but it's not as if he was little or anything - he was 16.

poppycracker

Quite right! My parents used to be foster parents and almost every child we got didn't know what real food was (and this was in the 80s and early 90s). Mind you, foster kids are a special case, they can't control anything but what goes into their bodies. Anyway, my mum had the same mindset as the rest of you ladies.... 'don't like what I'm making, tough.' The one concession she made was to blitz the veg into the sauce so they couldn't see it.

As a result, the kids all left eating like happy little savages. Didn't do me and my brother any harm either, apart from a few things, we'll eat anything

PS We grew up on Skye where there are lots of MacDonalds.... but no MCDONALDS..... that didn't do us any harm either.

Sarahsaver

jellycat40 wrote:

sarahsaver I think you have a bit of a nerve to say that all the people in McD are fat/mingers. I have been known to frequent the establishment and I am neither of those things, neither are my children.

We do not eat there regularly, in fact my daughter is restricted to once amonth in a burger restauarant and I am veggie so usually have a coffee and a plastic apple pie!!! However, it is far from true to say that everyone is fat and ugly just because they are in McD.

On the whole I agree with the take it or leave it argument of the thread over all. We try hard not to eat processed foods on a regular basis. I enjoy cooking for my family from scratch although it can be expensive to buy locally, organic or wholefood it is worth the expense.

Louise

I was only using it as a means to put my kids off. I do have a tongue in cheek attitude to this;)
I think the place should be fitted with turnstiles, i.e. if you cant fit in you can't get in!

cannyscot_2

Ive just had 2 children age 6/7 to tea and fed them a compromise meal as the last time my DD went there the mum said oh they ate lots -chicken teddies and chicken nuggets -I silently cringed.

Compromise was -peas,boiled new pots , gravy and roasted chicken legs-simple food I thought-they only ate the protatoes and gravy!!!!

then i gave them a plate with chopped banana, grapes,raspberries and strawberries along with some homemade choc sauce one the side to dip into-my kids ate with gusto -7th heaven-guests-one said im allergic to raspberries the other said i have never tried raspberries!! and neither ate the strawberries.

Needless to say I had bought squash for them-I figured the water , cranberry juice etc route was a non starter!

Im happy for my kids to eat junk, I think it has it's place, people don't even attempt to get their children to try the whole range of food available-not tried raspberries and we live in Scotland -to me that is just odd.

thriftlady_2

cannyscot wrote:

Compromise was -peas,boiled new pots , gravy and roasted chicken legs-simple food I thought-they only ate the protatoes and gravy!!!!

then i gave them a plate with chopped banana, grapes,raspberries and strawberries along with some homemade choc sauce one the side to dip into-my kids ate with gusto -7th heaven-guests-one said im allergic to raspberries the other said i have never tried raspberries!! and neither ate the strawberries.

This is exactly the sort of thing that happens to me :rolleyes:
BTW if the child really has an allergy their parents should have informed you, my dd has allergies and it's the first thing I say to any parent who is going to feed her.

Poppycracker's story reminded me of how evacuees from the big cities during the war wouldn't eat proper food provided by the country folk they were billeted with. All they wanted was bread and jam, and they weren't used to sitting down to a meal either. And that was 60 years ago, so maybe nothing changes.

scaredy_cat_2

:rolleyes: i am so glad found this thread - people think i'm nuts not giving squash ( i hate calling it juice too) we only have water and milk for cold drinks.

I worked in a school too and that turkey twizzler stuff is criminal. My 3 year old is also a little fussy/particular refusing some food despite having eaten it last month - i do think it can be a stage and following the its that or nothing route seems to work. However what she does eat is cous cous, brown rice, hm bol and meatballs, and lots of fruit. I can get away with humous as a snack with breadsticks and rice cakes which on reflection doesn't sound so bad! On holiday ( a house swap) we were looking after the garden so picked in runner beans and courgettes which she loved doing and then proceeded to eat all on her plate and help herself to more!! great.

Can anyone let me have a recipe for pizza please.

I am overweight and never go to mcdonalds!! just enjoy food too much (hm of course!)

However was feeling bad as we just made birthday cake for my sister - choc with choc fudge icing but did put brightly coloured m&ms on!! oh the shame - but it is only birthdays

sorry have rambled on as ever!

black-saturn

When my daughters friend comes round (which is quite a lot as she comes round whenever her mum is at work as she has nowhere else to go) she turns her nose up at home cooked unprocessed food. When I ask what she's had for tea the answer is usually McDonalds, chip shop or pizza.