FOOD SHOPPING FOR A FAMILY - ISH

jaybee

I used to be a picky eater when I was a child - apparently I would only eat chipolata sausager or honey sandwiches for about 2 years! The only veggies I ever ate were peas. Somehow I managed to grow up pretty healthily (I'm 59 now!). These days I eat EVERYTHING (well, not tripe :-[).

Trudi_Lavigne

Cold Food/ Salad alternatives:

I have a child that is rather fussy about eating veg, but loves ice lollys...so I have started freezing homemade veg soup in ice lolly moulds and they go down a treat! Beetroot and tomato is the favourite so far. Non fatty soups are the best for freezing. This idea came from the Covent Garden Soup Book.

My older child also went through a fussy patch when the younger one was born and I managed to get him to eat veg again when the younger one was being weaned and I had ice cube trays full of frozen carrot puree and the like. I discovered he would eat them if chopped up and still frozen, so the same principle as the soup really. He gradually started to eat the same foods non frozen too, and now eats a very healthy balanced diet with lots of veg, at three and a half years old.

jo_b_2

Thanks for the tips, Trudi, and congrats on your first post! Will have to give soup lollies a try!

16011996

yeah, have some beetroot growing in grandads back garden, will try the lollies. and welcome trudi.

jaybee, not had a honey sandwich for years. did any one ever have sugar butties as a child. mmmmm.

Sarahsaver

Muscovado sugar on bread mmmmm... ;D
My son and myself just had sprats for lunch because we got a bag full (about 2lbs!) for a quid a while back and i stick them in the freezer.
Whats happened to all that sort of stuff - really cheap old fashioned food, we still eat it - rabbit, sprats, mutton from time to time. Mind you ive seen someone buy a fish head, apparently theres a lot of meat on a salmon's head ::)
my 'fussy' daughter loves the cheap noodles from tesco, she too loves sausages. I cook the noodles with broccoli or carrots then she cant avoid the veg.
As a treat after school i often turn up to fetch them with a fresh carrot each in my pocket, its surprising how jealous the other cola swilling crisp eating kids look
As for fruit my kids eat TOO MUCH! I worked out that as a family we eat at least a pound of bananas each a week, plus apples, satsumas and anything else thats going! I have to put it on a high shelf to stop them overdoing it.We have fairly routine 'snack times' at about 10.30 am and after school at about 3.15. We all sit together and have one piece of fruit or a yoghurt, and one biscuit or breadsticks, or a cake if ive made any. This makes it easier if im pestered bcos i can say 'its not snack time yet' and i hope i am giving them good habits for later in life.

jaybee

Yes - my grandma used to give me brown sugar sandwiches as a treat!!!! Maybe it would be an idea to make 'horrible' things seem to be a treat - I like the beetroot ice lolly idea! Never liked dripping sandwiches though wich my father considered a treat!!!!

jaybee

Forgot to say. . .Sarahsaver - I had to be limited to 2 bananas a WEEK (I was a 'war baby'!!!)

trafalgar_2

Jaybee said
Yes - my grandma used to give me brown sugar sandwiches as a treat!!!!


Me too, I loved them ;D

jo_b_2

Sarahsaver, I have to ask....What's a sprat?! ??? :-[

Sarahsaver

Sprats are a little fish, smaller than a sardine. And they are bloomin cheap!
You cut the head off, at the same time pulling out the guts (negligible but better out than in) toss in plain flour then deep fry for 4 minutes. Serve with vinegar, lemon juice, tartare sauce, or like i had tonight, soy sauce and chilli sauce as a starter for a chinese meal I made ;D Eat the whole lot except the tail.
Yes 'yukky' things are a good idea to encourage as 'treats'
I LOVE liver
Squid is cheap on my local market, as are mussels - spot the seafood theme here... and my sons love them.
Poor lad though when I promised to save him some pigeon then got carried away and forgot ::) because it was too yummy (watercress and cranberry sauce by the way)
Got a copy of Escoffier's guide to traditional french cuisine from the charity shop today. Never tried tripe, i know it's cheap, dont know if I could stomach it though LOL