Children in restaurants

nikki&asha

I think they should abolish (SP?) childrens menus and just do child and adult sized portions of anything on the menu (inc junk stuff like nuggets along with better choices) - get rid of fussy/restrictive eating problems!

GobbledyGook

**Patty** wrote: »

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

I'm not going to :rotfl:


Where do you find toddler groups with normal people?? Is it just me, or my area, or do they not exist?

NewKittenHelp

GobbledyGook wrote: »

I'm not going to :rotfl:


Where do you find toddler groups with normal people?? Is it just me, or my area, or do they not exist?

You don't. Normal people don't join them!:D

Baileys_Babe

When we go out for a meal my ds (aged 6) is offered food off both adult and children's menus so he can choose something he would like, very rarely is this from the children menu as he doesn't like chips and prefers real food to fingers or nuggets etc. When he was 2 or 3 he regularly used to order & eat muscles, oh how we wouldn't fit in with your local group :rotfl:

You only ordered a starter for her, they need to realise not all children find the food on most children's menu.

My nephew who is a year older than ds prefers the children's menu as the food is the style he likes and he has a very small appetite. This never causes a problem when we go out for a big family meal as we all appreciate we are all different.

We do another thing that would no doubt cause outrage in your group. We hardly every order for dd (aged 3) as she has a miniscule appetite, well just an empty plate and then give her a selection of our food. She ends up with a tapas style meal which suits her as nothing is into large a portion and she gets to try lots of different food. Other times we order sharing platters so we can all tuck into together. Most children's menus wouldn't suit her as she would be uninterested in the food they offered.

claire16c

It seems weird to me they would think it was pandering, I mean often the adult menu has the better and more nutrituous food on it - although kids menus have got better over the years. What type of stuff were their kids eating? If it was junk food perhaps just put in a dig about that if they say anything to your face about it.

Pandering to me is when a parent gives in when they dont need to, not when a child is making a simple choice about something that is perfectly ok.

stiltwalker

They'd really not approve of me then - both of mine eat off the adult menu most of the time and they are only 3 and 15 months! DS might just about be fobbed off with the kids menu but DD would have a fit - the last time my mum took us out for lunch they both had homemade salmon, dill and marscapone ravioli in a creamy tomato sauce and both polished the lot off. Well apart from the bits that DS was wearing - he had to have a change of clothes! Both my kids have disabilities including co-ordination issues so it can be expensive and messy to take them out to lunch but so worth it to see how much they love their food. Fortunately our local Italian where we mostly go love to see the kids enjoying their lunch and forgive us the mess!

TBH I would worry more about kids not being allowed to have things off the proper menu - particularly by 9, if someone had expected me to eat off the kids menu at 9 I'd have lamped them! Mind you for a wee slip of a thing I had a whopping appetite and I'd been polishing off full adult meals since I was about 7.

I used to run a tearoom and refused point blank to have a kids menu - there were enough plain things on the main menu for fussy eaters - I just used to offer smaller portions tailored to the size of the small person and their appetite. Used to end up doing smaller portions for the other end of the market too!

Rochdale_Guy

raven83 wrote: »

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!

And some parents are just way too pretty!

Violetta_2

LOl how bizarre are they? You have to go for lunch with them again but before you go tell your dd to demand ice cream for her main meal & soup for desert then tell us all how it kicks off.
Just wondering though was the bill split & maybe some of them were sniffy that your kid's meal cost more than their kid's but you paid the same???
Quite a few places we go to state on the menu that you can order smaller portions of any of the meals for children.
What wonderful lives they must all live if all they have to get stressed about is your dd having rissotto.

Savvy_Sue

nikki&asha wrote: »

I think they should abolish (SP?) childrens menus and just do child and adult sized portions of anything on the menu (inc junk stuff like nuggets along with better choices) - get rid of fussy/restrictive eating problems!

I like that idea!

GG, I might have said 'pandering' if she'd done what DS3 has been doing for a few years: practically insists on ordering a starter, large steak with all the trimmings, and still has room for pudding. Costs a fortune, so I sometimes ration him.

He also likes to go to Burger King if we stop at motorway services, even if he only finished his three course meal 2 hours earlier. Now he's a grown up I tell him he's welcome, but I'm not paying for it ...

*Louise*

I was surprised to read that they said you had pandered to your DD...but I was more shocked that all this has been b*tched about on Facebook, that is just horrible!

I would be ditching them all pretty quickly...and I would tell them to their faces I had read all their backstabbing comments :mad:

Aside from that, allowing a 9yo to have something she likes as opposed to the usual kids menu rubbish*...sounds pretty sensible and hardly the crime of the century!

*I also get sick of places only offering kids either beans or peas as a veg side...we ate out a lot on holiday and DD was constantly asking for broccoli with her meal but not a single place had any.