Cooking for kids..

Hapless_2

My kids have a choice, eat what they are given or go hungry.

Penny-Pincher!!

DD is 12 and has always eaten what we have-I have never given her a choice. I think if you start cooking seperately for kids, you are making hard work for yourself!

One night a week we have a stew and DD doesnt like that, but as she has a school dinner that day, she just has beans on toast or a baked spud-which she does herself. All the other days she eats the same.

DD's favs are Roasts, Toad In Hole, Spagbol, Chops, HM Pie etc etc.

PP
xx

Irishmummyof2

Now it's a ww recipe and serves 2 but i'm sure you can alter it to suit.

25og trimmed leeks, rinsed and sliced
salt+pepper
150ml veg stock
1 medium slice bread
40g cheese
1 tn butter beans
2 tsp grain mustard


METHOD

1) Preheat Oven to Gas Mark 5/190 degree/170 Fan oven

2) Lightly coat a non stick saucepan with low fat cooking spray, add the leeks and seasoning and toss to coat. Add 3 table spoons of the stock, cover the pan and cook for 4 minutes until tender.

3) In the meantime, roughly tear up the bread and whiz to crumbs in a food processor, or use a hand blender. Mix with the grated cheese.

4) Add the drained butter beans, mustard and remaining stock to the leeks, season and stir to mix then tip into a baking dish. Cover with the cheesy crumbs and mist with low fat cooking spray. Bake for 15 minutes until crisp, golden and bubbling.

newmrslockwood

Irishmummyof2 How many points?

SSB

Hi
I'm with Hapless, never even considered making separate meals. There are some foods that my children genuinely do not like ( not many) and I would not force them to eat those.

frizz_head

Mr Frizz doesn't get in from work until 8 or 9pm most evenings, so during the week, we never eat as a family. Sunday is the only meal that we all have together. I feed the girls between 4.30pm and 5pm, depending on what afterschool activity they are doing, then Mr Frizz and I sit down and eat anytime after 9pm. And as I work during school hours, and then usually have my taxi service hat on after school, its hard finding the time to think about cooking something for us all.

So without a choice, I do cook seperately. I tried doing casseroles/lasagne for all of us, which was fine for DDs, but was spoiled when reheated later on for us.

Irishmummyof2

If you use half fat cheese which i should have wrote it is 3 points per serving.

Curv

I am SO going to give it a go...

Sharra

My son is now 13 and I have been waiting for ages for him to grow out of being 'fussy'. About 6 months ago we put our feet down and starting insisting he at least eat some of what we were having. Since being firm there has definitely been an improvement and he's probably doubled the things he will eat.
It was my own fault he's like this - I have bad memories of being forced to eat food I genuinely didn't like as a kid, and so up until recently have never made him eat stuff.
I guess my main point is, they will almost definitely not grow out of it until they are adults if you let them get away with it

angie_loves_veg

Just thinking aloud really...:think:

You cannot grow out of something that is out of your control.....

However, if you offer *your* food every day, they may start by being fussy and refusing to eat bits here and there, they can grow out of that fussiness. I believe they will do this fairly quickly as children are very adaptable.