Can you help?

Fritha_2

Ok ladies/gents of the OS board, I have a challenge for you that I thought your collective wisdom might be able to crack?

Mr Fritha is an extremely fussy eater, which makes proper cooking quite difficult for him. He's not just that he is picky, he is actually allergic to a lot of things

He will eat:

Meat (except Pork)
Cod (occasionally)
Quorn sausages (a personal victory)
Boiled potatos
Hash Browns
Roast Potatos
Chips
Roast Parsnips
White bread
Apples
Crisps
Grapes
Peanuts
Cashews
Sesame seeds
Chocolate
Chicken soup
Crunchy nut cornflakes (dry!)
I might be able to persuade him to eat pasta and/or rice.
I can possibly nudge him towards some sweet potato
Another personal victory was tortillas with chicken in fajita spice (we were all shocked! But if I can persaude him it's identical I might succeed!)


But that really is it, no herbs or spices, no veg, nothing! He's kind of lactose intolerant so I have to be very careful with dairy products. I already make him bread in a bread maker (and I sneak wholemeal flour in and he's happy with it) and homebake him sweet things. But I'm stumped as to what I can do for actual meals. I've made him breaded chicken
and homemade chips but beyond that I'm stumped!

Has anyone got any ideas, particularly if there's something that I can then jazz up a bit for myself! Please help me get him vaguely more healthy!


Thank you so much in advance

tiff

Hmm, I dont tolerate fussy eaters at all I'm afraid. They eat what I'm making (allergies excepted obviously) or go without. I know that my husband hates mushrooms so dont put whole mushrooms on a plate but will put them in spag bol for example.

Could you not disguise the veg in some way? Does he have any suggestions (is it your husband or son, sorry not sure )

pawpurrs

How about blending vegetables into sauces/soups/casseroles?

wigginsmum

Which allergies have been clinically diagnosed and which are habit/fussiness? I have a lot of sympathy for clinical stuff (my stepdaughter's coeliac) but little tolerance for faddiness.

Better still, get him to cook every once in a while.

Caterina

You know the Jamie Oliver 7 veg pasta sauce? you can actually mince and then blend a lot of veg in a 'tomato-looking' pasta sauce. I think he puts onions, carrots, celery, parsnips, obviously tomatoes and another couple of veg in it (does anyone remember them all?).

Also, if you chop a really large bunch of parsley into whatever he already eats, that's really very good veg stuff, full of iron and vit. C (if you don't cook it the vit C content stays higher).

How about fruit smoothies made with orange or apple juice?

Good luck

Caterina

newlywed

Does he eat tomatoes?
I do a spaghetti type sauce using mince but make it thick not runny and then stir in cooked rice. OH loves that.

Would he eat shepherds pie? You can mash the potatoes with just marge (without milk or cheese if he's allergic to those)

Edit: the kids don't like parsnips but I can hide them in shepherds pie, along with carrots etc and they eat it all up!!

Oh and if he likes gravy you can do the sauce for the shepherd pie with bisto - hubby loves gravy!

newlywed

I've done quite a bit of swapping ingredients due to not being able to have much cows milk products (flares up the eczema).

Personally I don't like soya (although he may be able to have that) but rice milk is nice on cereal and can get added calcium version. Although not nice in tea! I almost never use butter but use flora for most cooking including cakes etc.

Mash is fine without milk and cheese. Pasta sauce is fine without cheese on.

MrsMW

Maybe he would eat roast veggies, I give my fussy hubby roast potatoes, parsnips, carrots and sweet potato and he loves 'em.

Fritha_2

Crikey, you're all fantastic!

Tiff, I agree, I don't tolerate fussy eaters as well, but he has had a lot of his allergies confirmed by a doctor: tomatoes, green vegetables, lactose (unless he's careful), pork, some spices, erm, that's all I can remember. His fatehr and brother are the same, I've introduced some things but it's difficult becuase he has an overly sensitive pallette so he's liable to throw up!

Pawpurrs: good idea, he'll eat chicken soup so if I can learn how to make it at home I can hide something in it, any recommendations on what won't really alter the flavour?

Wigginsmum: some are diagosed some are fussyiness I'm still working on breaking through the fussy but persuasion, bribery and corruption! He does cook for us occassionally but he unfortunately has a tendancy to give us food poisoning and I don't know how becuase he does everything properly!

Caterina: That sauce sounds gorgeous, I loev veg, but he can't have tomatoes! Hmmm, perhaps I could do something similar and make it really stodgy so it only just coats the pasta and he hardly notices?

Newlywed: No tomatoes unfortunately, which is annoying becuase if I could get him to eat that I'd have more luck! He's fussy about Shepards pie (he won't eat wet things, I know that's he's just being fussy but he does genuinely throw up!) he's the same with gravy.But he will eat mash without butter or milk so perhaps if I could make them seperately he might eat them! I also have excema newlywed and am working on the soya milk excitement with him he's just very suspicious of it!

Mrs MW: sorry we got crossed over, but that's a fantastic idea, I've been wanting to try him on peppers and carrots too! how would yo go about roasting them?

Once again, thank you so much everyone you're all stars! Keep the ideas coming!

newlywed

Personally i much prefer rice milk. OH tried them too and he prefers rice milk on cereal.

The soya yoghurts can be quite nice and swiss glace icecream is soya based and milk free - Hurrah!!!!

Oh or is it sweedish glace??? Anyway its in a hexagonal tub in most supermarkets and some health shops!!

tiff

Can he eat eggs? If so then omelettes, frittata etc and pancakes?