Feeding kid's friends real food

QueenB.

rainbowrisin wrote:

I love your comment about the tins of treats for midnight feasts. My family all home bake (I home bake, but am very inferior, they are all seasoned WI veterans) and I can well remember sneaking down to raid slices of sponge (like my mum never noticed:D ) - that's brilliant. I think you're making a rod for your own back tho, as those children will be back again and again for more sleepovers - your treat tins will be licked clean;)

Thankfully i keep the freezer stocked with a few emergency treats;)

It is nice to see them being appreciated makes all that kitchen stuff worthwhile:D

Its quite funny as i know walk around a supermarket and think not buying that i can make it, i think its become my catchprase:rotfl:

rainbowrisin

I was thinking about this thread whilst I was doing my ironing, and it's actually embarrassing in reverse as well - when the littlies visit other people they're seen as really fussy because of all the stuff they won't eat.
We went to see a "friend of a friend" from mums n tots a week or so back - stay for lunch she says - will yours have chicken nuggets with potato smilies or oven chips with burgers and beans?

"Errrr no, they don't like any of those things"

"What about a choc spread sandwich?"

"Errrr no"

"A tin of soup?"

"Errrrr....."

"A ham sandwich, all children like ham sandwiches"

"Errr, that'll be lovely" (thinks oh please don't let it be white bread, the littlies won't eat it).

I felt quite bad, as she was really going out of her way to oblige, and we either don't like or don't eat everything she was suggesting. In the end I said if the littlies didn't eat the sandwich they could do with out - which they bravely did and we feasted on the emergency car food (I always have dried fruit, crackers, HM cake or similar in the car incase we get peckish) once we left.

freyasmum

another thing whilst I remember...

once when my mum and dad took me, my grannie and my sister to blackpool we stayed in this hotel (£50 per head/per night! - mum and dad not chuffed) since we couldn't find anywhere else (and had grown too big for the boot of the car!) and when we were having dinner we decided to go all out and have steak and the waitress is like '... so the kids will be having chips and beans then...' as she leaned over our seats and we were both like '... no, we both want potatoes and vegetables!...' Well! She was stunned and said that she had never before met kids who didn't want chips and beans!

Anyway when we were leaving the hotel, me, mum, grannie and my sister went to the car whilst my dad paid. There had been some confusion about the bill and the manager had been called over to sort it. He apologised for trying to overcharge my dad and then proceeded to charge him £50 for everything! He never noticed till he was out. He paid by card so if they had realised their mistake they could have taken it.

QueenB.

rainbowrisin wrote:

I was thinking about this thread whilst I was doing my ironing, and it's actually embarrassing in reverse as well - when the littlies visit other people they're seen as really fussy because of all the stuff they won't eat.
We went to see a "friend of a friend" from mums n tots a week or so back - stay for lunch she says - will yours have chicken nuggets with potato smilies or oven chips with burgers and beans?

"Errrr no, they don't like any of those things"

"What about a choc spread sandwich?"

"Errrr no"

"A tin of soup?"

"Errrrr....."

"A ham sandwich, all children like ham sandwiches"

"Errr, that'll be lovely" (thinks oh please don't let it be white bread, the littlies won't eat it).

I felt quite bad, as she was really going out of her way to oblige, and we either don't like or don't eat everything she was suggesting. In the end I said if the littlies didn't eat the sandwich they could do with out - which they bravely did and we feasted on the emergency car food (I always have dried fruit, crackers, HM cake or similar in the car incase we get peckish) once we left.

This made me laugh as i have a similar problem, the looks other parents can give you when you turn round and say what your child will an won't eat, most of mine don't actually like chips and when you say that it is as if you have just said something in another language :rotfl:

I am another one who always has something edible with me for emergencies and i always carry some water, mine will happily munch away on sunflower crackers, or HM flapjacks and so on, but then i am often told my bag is like Mary poppins, i tend to try and be prepared for everything;) :rotfl:

I also always turn up to pick them up from school with a little HM snack just to take the egde off their hunger, and their love of fruit means they are in no danger of struggling to get their 5 daily helpings.

Forgot to add we always take our own food on days out and to the cinema as not only is it cheaper but the kids come away full and minus tummy aches.

Sarahsaver

I have to bite by lip real hard when a friend of mine says she took her ds out to mc ds or kfc 'for tea' yet she doesnt have time to cook :rolleyes:

Sposed to be doing my kids' packed lunches now but ds has just had a major tantrum so im trying to calm myself down. His behaviour is nothing to do with food I spose I should add, but drinks with red colouring have a diuretic efect as I found after a birtday party where they had cherryade...
He's also worse after parties at school which arent as policed as I would like. I think its just having way too much salt and sugar which they are not used to. Most parents think its clever to send a multipack of crisps so the children end up with several bags each I CAN do something, I'm a governor... he he he

Annoys me as well when people salt and pepper their food before tasting it

Janepig

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!!

The dentist is just as bad, when you're having the standard lecture about sweets, chocolate, pop, etc... they look at you as if you're lying when you say that your child doesn't have any of these things!!!!

Jxx

Addiscomber

rainbowrisin wrote:

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

it must be an garment worn by chickens - kinda like a slip at the top with panties attached??



I'm going

taplady

Jay-Jay wrote:

Hey Taplady .... where's your teletone toe taps avatar gone? :think:

Sorry off topic......

Fancied a change! no tapping in the summer so will have to find a new tappy one for the Autumn term!:D ( my first solo attempt at getting an Avatar:o DS1 usually helps me)

Sarahsaver

I have had the problem with not being believed, re. DS1's diet. Health visitors and doctors assume because a child has behaviour probs and eczema/athsma then cutting junk food out would be a good idea. What should I cut out? LOL;)

It does make a difference in those who do eat junk though, used to be a teacher and the behaviour improved when the canteen stopped selling fizzy pop.

aimeelister

Janepig wrote:

The dentist is just as bad, when you're having the standard lecture about sweets, chocolate, pop, etc... they look at you as if you're lying when you say that your child doesn't have any of these things!!!!

My mum used to get so angry at the dentist for him having a go at me eating all those things! He would give me huge lectures about it and i would often come out crying, mum would then go off her head at him for not believing me!

I rarely had sweets and chocolates and my pop my mum did eventually loose out on. She used to give me sparkling water as lemonade - backfired when i went to a party and had some pop lemonade (nearly wrote real then but its probably never been near a natural ingredient in its life!) anyway i spat it out and said it was too sweet! Mum did eventually have to confess what she had been doing!

I must say i do drink a lot of squash. Mainly because straight water gives me tummy ache, but its always weak. Lemonade is a treat and i have only just started to drink coke (but thats for its medical reasons after a heavy night I wont go into!)

I really do appreciate the way my mum brought me up!