Feeding kid's friends real food

finc

I've not had a child yet (other than my own) eat anything I've made. I've tried roast chicken, spahetti bolognaise, picnics but with HM bread and real meat/cheese and the last time I did HM pizza. I was really shocked with the pizza not being eaten as it gets wolfed down by my family but the little girl said she'd never had pizza before!! I asked her mum who said she had but only the ones in the multipacks in the freezers.

I feel guilty sending them home with empty tummies but I don't want my children eating too much processed food and don't tend to buy it. We also only have water and fruit juice but I have got a bottle of cranberry high juice lurking at the top of my fridge. It's been there 2 years as an emergency mixer for vodka

My one concession at processed food though is fish fingers. I just can't make them at all, they always taste yucky but then I'm not a big fish fan. I only buy the decent fillet ones though, can't stomach the minced up ones _pale_

V.Lucky

Guess I have all of this to come when my son starts having kids around when he starts school full time next week.

Anne_Marie_2

Jazzy_B wrote:

I get the other side of this. My daughter often comes home hungry because she doesn't like chicken nuggets,non HM pizza, fizzy drinks. We find getting decent food for the kids on holiday is difficult, because it seems to be chips with everything.

Used to happen to me regularily. No matter where DD was for her tea, she came home and had another one, even though she did eat whatever was put down to her on the whole. Just didn't fill her up. And here was me thinking that I had a night off cooking different meals (I eat veggie, but didn't bring daughter up like that - personal choice thing, plus hubby eats meat - perhaps might have been different if we both were vegetarian).
Didn't have a problem really with her friends, as if they didn't eat it, well that was that - although did always ask if they liked whatever, and if they said yes, would cook that. Was always home made, apart from things like tin of beans/spaghetti on toast for lunch, but they liked the grated cheese on top of these, was a real treat.
One of DD's friends was told by her they would have to stay for tea, and this was only lunch time. This was queried, and back came the answer - well you asked for chicken soup, and you haven't eaten it all - well if you don't eat it for lunch, you get it for tea!

sazzy30

Jazzy_B wrote:

I get the other side of this. My daughter often comes home hungry because she doesn't like chicken nuggets,non HM pizza, fizzy drinks. We find getting decent food for the kids on holiday is difficult, because it seems to be chips with everything.

I have exactly the same problem - my children come home hungry from parties because they don't like chips and white bread sandwiches, they would prefer pasta, curry, chilli etc but it never seems to be an option.

Sarahsaver

My boys especially like 'grownups food' and I ask for half an adult portion for them. If it's not possible I know not to go there again! DS1 astounded friends once because he was most excited to have cress and cucumber on the side of his plate of lasagne in a pub once!

You can leave things lying around and many kids will try them, like sushi at ds1's 4th birthday (his choice) a bowl of frozen peas, bits of chicken/beef on kebab skewers - amazing how even fussy eaters will eat meat off a stick.
Processed meat is easier and a hard habit to break if its been used for a long time, because kids have to learn to use their teeth. Try it, you can suck a chicken nugget and it will dissolve. Try the same with a chicken leg...

rainbowrisin

Who or what is a "chicken teddy"
I've never heard of one before.

rainbowrisin

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.

My word you breed em tough! I don't think my tummy would survive three fast food joints in one day:D

Good to see it's three meals a day and no snacks - It's not good for children to eat between meals;)

loopy_lass

its mucked about chicken bits (like the beak and stuff - JOKING) and re shaped like a teddy, or a dinosaur or whale.. i think you should all try a turkey twizzler!!! WHAT ON EARTH are they made of???? i know what they LOOK like, and that concerns me enough not to eat one!

loops

rainbowrisin

loopy_lass wrote:

its mucked about chicken bits (like the beak and stuff - JOKING) and re shaped like a teddy, or a dinosaur or whale.. i think you should all try a turkey twizzler!!! WHAT ON EARTH are they made of???? i know what they LOOK like, and that concerns me enough not to eat one!

loops

eeeeeeeuuuuuuuggggghhhhh - that's such a revolting concept. Do not think I will push my frontiers of culinary excellence towards the "chicken teddy" route. The Jamie Oliver turkey twizzler thingy passed me by (I think I was having a baby at the time), but it doesn't sound natural to me - turkeys do not have twizzlers, and if you can't identify the bit of the animal the meat came from then it sound dodgy to me.

There should be a law against these things IMHO. Also a law against blue pop (well all pop really) and various other things which pass for food in supermarkets. My rule of thumb (oft quoted to the point of monotony) is that if its got more than one ingredient on the packet then it's a rip off. It's also probably toxic - I have enormous difficulty in believing that a "chicken teddy" can be other than damaging to the constitution. Anyone on here eaten one and lived to tell the tale?

taplady

I have found this thread really interesting! I found OS rather late for my kids I'm afraid(!4 and 16) so am only just into healthy cooking but its hard to get the kids to change their habits. They go to tea often at their mates and luckily most of the time they get given "real" food:eek: and as they're polite they nearly always eat what they're given which means they get to try things they wouldn't touch at home:j so thanks to their mates OS parents they are learning to appreciate "real" food at last!:D

Thanks OldStylers!;)