Children in restaurants

cutestkids

My oldest is 11 and has been having meals from the Adult menu for the last year or so, he has a huge appetite and the kids portions were not enough for him in most cases.

My younger son is almost 7 and I have let him choose from the adult menu before as well but asked for a slightly smaller portion, most places are willing to accomodate this.

I have to agree about kids menu options being pretty dire in most cases it is all chicken nuggets, fish fingers and sausages which my kids don't really have very often.

**Patty**

Mine eat from the adult menu.

Youngest is allergic to mushrooms (like his mum & grandad) & most restaurants shove them in bolognaise as they think kids need *hidden veg* :mad:

GobbledyGook

Charlie23 - she was the eldest, but not by much. There were 2 7 year olds and a few 5/6 year olds.

It wasn't a massive portion either because it was a starter. Quite comparable to the children's menu main meal portion. It's not like she scoffed down or wasted a huge plate of food.

nikki&asha

I got comments when I got my then 14 month old a 5oz steak, jacket pot and muchrooms instead of burger and chips off the kids meal by a close friend. Obviously he didn't eat it all but it was better nutritionally and what he likes - stick to your guns!

Spendless

By the time my son was 8 or 9 he wasn't ordering from the kids menus either. Though he didn't want to order from the starter menu. Wish he had, it becomes a dear do when you are plunged into paying for another adult meal.

My daughter is 9 and still on the kids menus, as her fav meal is chicken nuggets and chips. She tells me as an adult she will order chicken nuggets, chips, ketchup and coffee. Can't decide if she will be cheap to invite out to lunch or very strange. :rotfl:

Did you point out, if you eat abroad, there often isn't a kids menu, or if there is it doesn't have the same sort of items on it, you find here.

GobbledyGook

Spendless wrote: »

Did you point out, if you eat abroad, there often isn't a kids menu, or if there is it doesn't have the same sort of items on it, you find here.

I haven't as no-one has said anything to my face. I went to add one of the girls to facebook (I'm hidden so they couldn't find me) and there is a few of them talking about it. She probably doesn't realise she has no privacy settings whatsoever by the looks of it.

Done me a favour, I'd rather know when people are snipping like that. They are clearly not my kind of people. I kinda wish the younger DD had spotted the mussels now - that would really have caused a stir :rotfl:

tiamai_d

My eldest orders from the adult menu or the childrens menu, depending on what he wants to eat. A meal out is a treat so why would I force them to eat from the kdis menu if what they fancy isn't on it?

raven83

God my older 2 always eat from the adult menu and they are 8 and 9!!! You get such small portions with kids meals, and they are usually full of empty calories, and they would be hungry an hour or so later, so I don't see anything wrong with kids ordering from the normal menu. Some parents are just way too petty!

Mrs.W_2

That group sounds like a bunch of silly sheep.

If someone told me I was pandering to my child by giving her a sensible meal she'd eat, I'd gasp at their child the next time he/she picked his/her nose, saying, "You do know early nose-picking is a sign of tendancy for Tourette's syndrome? There was a huge BMJ article last month!"

**Patty**

GobbledyGook wrote: »

I haven't as no-one has said anything to my face. I went to add one of the girls to facebook (I'm hidden so they couldn't find me) and there is a few of them talking about it. She probably doesn't realise she has no privacy settings whatsoever by the looks of it.

Done me a favour, I'd rather know when people are snipping like that. They are clearly not my kind of people. I kinda wish the younger DD had spotted the mussels now - that would really have caused a stir :rotfl:

God woman don't add them!

It's much more fun when they are too stupid to alter their privacy settings & you can see when they are bi*ching about you:D:D:D