Nice people thread part 3- Nice as pie

lostinrates

wageslave wrote: »

I have discovered worry about food in a major way.

It is funny the difference ten years makes.

Back in the day, I worried about actually being able to feed the brat, now I worry about what is in everything.

It is not a pleasant experience.

I do realise "organic" is a relative term but I have to trust in something.

Next spring the bit right at the back of the garden which I have spent ten years and a small fortune turning into a "room" is going into vegetables.

And they will eat them.

Or possibly not.

One has decided to live entirely on cheese in the last fortnight:(

Organic is a good start. Welfare standards even if you don't care about it for its own sake, suggest a producer with an actual interest in producing good,clean stuff. Size of producer can be misleading. The dear little smallholders sown the road with fresh eggs,poultry and some lamb or pork might know fluff all about what their animals should really be eating...for their health or yours.

Maybe get the girls helping you in the kitchen?Little fingers can rub fat into flour for cakes or dumplings for stews, and bigger fingers can be helped slice things. Carefully helped little people stirring their food on the stove are excite by the time it hits the dinner table. Even helping you lay the table, the ''ceremony'' of eating is good for appetite and of course development in other ways.

WS, I bet you are a fan-bloody-tastic parent.

wageslave

I will send them down to you.

As to cheese, it was either that or sausage rolls and I point blank refused to feed her them.

She is very thin and an extremely picky eater. She has spent the last year living out of Greggs and can't understand why it cant continue

Fortunately, she remembers me and is willing to compromise.

"No sausage rolls,absolutely not. What else do you like?"

"Cheese strings"

"Over my dead body. what about real cheese?"

"Does it taste like cheese strings?"

"Oh totally"

lostinrates

wageslave wrote: »

I will send them down to you.

As to cheese, it was either that or sausage rolls and I point blank refused to feed her them.

She is very thin and an extremely picky eater. She has spent the last year living out of Greggs and can't understand why it cant continue

Fortunately, she remembers me and is willing to compromise.

"No sausage rolls,absolutely not. What else do you like?"

"Cheese strings"

"Over my dead body. what about real cheese?"

"Does it taste like cheese strings?"

"Oh totally"

Hey,sausage rolls are easy to make, if you cheat and buy puff pastry. At home they can be fatty sure (but if she's skinny)..but nutritious.

Chop lots of veg in so they can see veg in things they like, or, if thats a step to far before they join you in the kitchen take a tip from someone who has fed alot of kids for one not a parent! Stuff your veg (carrots onion and celery go into almost EVERYTHING) in to a food processor and add it to the sausage meat. Make loads, and freeze them, try some with different flavours added to the sausage meat to get them thinking...a few chopped dried apricots maybe in a couple, some sage in another few etc.

edit: kids also like cooking things with funny names. I was amazed when I got two four year olds baying for kedgeree. They ate it too...fish, veg and all...one picked out the hard boiled eggs, but she ate the fish..which was the aim of the game!

wageslave

You are a bliddy genius.

I just need to source some trustworthy sausage meat.

Feeding the brat was never this exhausting. Or maybe it was and I have just forgotten.

I am absolutely not any kind of a marvellous parent.

LIR, I stood on the sidelines waiting for their mother to f*u*c*k up. Waiting to get her children.

I dont doubt she loves them.

I am not a good person. I am NEVER giving them back

lostinrates

wageslave wrote: »

You are a bliddy genius.

I just need to source some trustworthy sausage meat.

Feeding the brat was never this exhausting. Or maybe it was and I have just forgotten.

I am absolutely not any kind of a marvellous parent.

LIR, I stood on the sidelines waiting for their mother to f*u*c*k up. Waiting to get her children.

I dont doubt she loves them.

I am not a good person. I am NEVER giving them back

The Brat was easy because she had you from the start.
You had no choice but to wait, that is what makes you a good role model for these kids. The last line is what makes you a great parent.


Not a genius, just taken care of lots of kids whose parents don't argue the food thing. I really have found getting them cooking,and as they grow, interested in GOOD food and ''travelling by plate'' is the best long term, but the hidden veg along the way helps.

wageslave

I feel really guilty, as if I was willing their mother to fail. I wasn't, I just knew she would.

It will be years before she gets herself together, if she ever does. My girls dont have the luxury of those years.

Their mother is...... think Cher from the XFactor. Cheap, cheerful and dangerous to small children

I dont feel good about any of this and yet I would have happily have murdered a year ago.

Now the girls are here, I just feel really sorry for her.

She does love them LIR. She is just incapable of looking after them

She is what she was raised to be

I will always feel I stole her children

PasturesNew

wageslave wrote: »

I will send them down to you.

As to cheese, it was either that or sausage rolls and I point blank refused to feed her them.

She is very thin and an extremely picky eater. She has spent the last year living out of Greggs and can't understand why it cant continue

Fortunately, she remembers me and is willing to compromise.

"No sausage rolls,absolutely not. What else do you like?"

"Cheese strings"

"Over my dead body. what about real cheese?"

"Does it taste like cheese strings?"

"Oh totally"

I spotted a fab/easy recipe the other day that's got cheese in it... it's in the Sainsbury's Fresh magazine. Can't remember it now, but I know they end up looking like potato croquettes and there's cheese in there somewhere and semolina comes into it.

Anyway, sum of the ingredients sounded tasty and the picture looked nice, I'll see if I can dig it out if you're interested. I've an interest in digging it out before somebody takes it down the recycling, else I'll never find it again anywhere ever.

You could try her with a fondue

Dip healthy things into a fondue.

lostinrates

WS, you haven't stolen children, not from what you have written. (I dont watch this ''x factor'' of which you speak;))

You are enabling these children to be healthy,happy,STABLE people who can succeed in the society in which they live. In adult life, even sooner possibly, they probably will forge a relationship with her, but because you are their anchor, their carer they will do this while surviving themselves.

How is the Brat, is she home for Christmas yet?

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

I spotted a fab/easy recipe the other day that's got cheese in it... it's in the Sainsbury's Fresh magazine. Can't remember it now, but I know they end up looking like potato croquettes and there's cheese in there somewhere and semolina comes into it.

Anyway, sum of the ingredients sounded tasty and the picture looked nice, I'll see if I can dig it out if you're interested. I've an interest in digging it out before somebody takes it down the recycling, else I'll never find it again anywhere ever.

You could try her with a fondue

Dip healthy things into a fondue.

Fondue with crudite is a good idea, inspired PN! Dipping,sharing,special pot and tools. A meat fondue wouldn't be bad either.

And on that theme dips with crudite, 20-30 mins before supper is ready....so hunger wins.


I wonder if the cheese is a protein/calcium craving. I know people don't follow the craving thing, and I think they ar sometimes wrong. Though I would agree that a need to eat aspartame and chocolate is probably misleading;)

PasturesNew

My sister grew up only eating roast spuds and yorkshire puddings and chips. She was dragged to the Doctor who said "let her eat what she wants, one day she'll eat other things". She was 18 before she ate other things. I suspect she was just fearful of food because of mother's cooking