Feeding kid's friends real food

Edinburghlass_2

black-saturn wrote:

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.

here we go again, are you now saying its working mothers with feral kids who feed their kids at McDs etc, give it a rest :rolleyes:

black-saturn

Edinburghlass wrote:

here we go again, are you now saying its working mothers with feral kids who feed their kids at McDs etc, give it a rest :rolleyes:

You took it the wrong way again. If your going to have a go at me please do it via PM from now on. I'm getting sick of this witch hunt.

Quackers

Edinburghlass wrote:

here we go again, are you now saying its working mothers with feral kids who feed their kids at McDs etc, give it a rest :rolleyes:

I've been at work today and my feral kids have been quite satisfied with their bag of crisps and bottle of pop whilst they've been locked in the garage thankyou very much.

They might get a drive through macdonalds tomorrow for their breakfast, they can have burger king for their lunch and then they can have kentucky for their tea.


On a more serious note! My youngest is really fussy - one week she'll like something and another she wont but generally she eats well so I'm not that fussed. She is also like another poster mentioned - she has days where she eats loads and then has a couple of days when she hardly eats anything! Weirdo!

You all need to get evil like me - just dont bother having any kids round for tea :rotfl:

thriftlady_2

Quackers wrote:

You all need to get evil like me - just dont bother having any kids round for tea :rotfl:

Well that's been my aim for a long time, but I sometimes run out of excuses. I'm definitely not going in for sleepovers though

ziggy2004

visiting kids get the same treatment as ds which means that if they do not like what I am serving they can have a cheese sandwich as I refuse to cook more then one meal but not everyone likes the same food so they don't have to go hungry (unless they also dislike cheese sanwidches ) As ds is not 2 yet it has not been a big issue yet.

X Anne

V.Lucky

When my son started pre-school when he was just gone 2 they were worried because he never ate. They gave him biscuits and crisps. I told them if they gave him fruit he would eat anything. They were genuinely shocked.

He started nursery school last year and the same happened. He wouldn't eat sausages, crackers or biscuits. AGain told them to give him any fruit. So the other kids are eating choccie biscuits and he's having an apple.

No doubt peer pressure will catch up with him soon.

He starts school full time next week, and his lunch box will include raisins, carrots sticks and fruit plus a sandwich on wholemeal bread. No crisps ( he still doesn't eat them) although he will eat home made biscuits and plain bought ones (no chocolate).

He loves McD but understands it's a treat and that if he eats there too much he will get fat.

HopeElizzy

I was quite suprised to find my childminder had given my daughter (4yrs) a mcd's one evening. I only found out because my daughter came home and cried because she was hungry and when I asked the childminder about it the next day I was told that my daughter had taken a bite of burger, spat it out on the floor and said it was disgusting!
The childminder seemed suprised by this but I thought it was hilarious. :rotfl: I felt like cheering for my daughter but I was annoyed as I hadn't been consulted beforehand and childminder had said she always did home cooked meals. She hasn't taken her to a fast food place since!:D
When she was offered mcd's or kfc for lunch recently she said very loudly I don't want that I want a sandwich! I miss having a mcd's - if the kids don't want it I don't get to have it either.

Alikay

I just used to give in and supply an orange dinner (perm any 3 from chips,nuggets,spagetti hoops,waffles,fish fingers,beans,smiley faces) as most of the mums of the fussy kids would issue a list of what their little darlings would deign to eat!
I always made some cakes, but often just the icing would get eaten as they weren't as sweet as the bought cakes they preferred.
Now my kids are bigger, more of their friends like "proper" food, so they get what they're given now!

foreverskint

Our playgroup has a lovely scheme going at the moment, whereby they get two children each day to help prepare the snacks, and serve them to the other children at snacktime.

The foods include cheese, crackers lots of fruit and veggies etc. The two children helping that day get talked to about the importance of handwashing before food prep, and also they discuss healthy eating. They learn how to chop up and serve the food. I think it's a brilliant idea, and gets the message across at a young age.

ka7e

You can't win!
My 17 year old son recently spent the night at a friend's house and had been invited to the family evening meal. When I asked him what he'd had, he said glumly "Chicken in white wine casserole with rice". Now I regularly cook chicken in cider, and although he's not that keen on it, I was surprised to hear he ate hardly any of it. The reason? The sauce came out of a tin!
I'm mortified that he was so ungracious to a family that obviously thought they were offering him a treat - if they had offered him a KFC meal he would have thought that was really special because he doesn't get that at home.