What can i feed the fussiest eater in the world?

NickiM

Not healthy but jam tarts?

lil_me

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?p=6722282&highlight=lunchbox%2Bideas#post6722282

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?p=6153618&highlight=lunchbox%2Bideas#post6153618

Wonder if those threads might help.

NickiM good idea with jam tarts but I'd probably put lids on and make them a bit more of a pie, or even a lattice, because I've helped kids remove their jam tart from their lunch box before :rotfl:'Miss it's stuck!' oh the joyful helping out at lunch times. Another child used to bring little sausages and his Mam would put dipping sauce in the corner of the pot, how she thought it would stay in the corner I don't know and he used to ask staff to 'wash' his sausages. I left a note asking her to put it in a seperate container after he broke his heart because his sauce wasn't in the corner.

getting-sorted-sarah

Brownies - brilliant - put loads of raisins in too and maybe he'll mistake them for chocolate? Can but hope!
My DD religiously ate her sandwich, followed by her fruit, followed by chocolate/snack - because I told her to - DS eats the snack... nibbles at sandwich if it is made exactly to his specification (ie grated cheese, chutney, cucumber), ignores fruit.
Kids.

getting-sorted-sarah

lil_me wrote: »

he used to ask staff to 'wash' his sausages.

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

JillD_2

thanks for the replies.
I mght try the wheels idea lil_me. He won't eat raisons, no. I know what you mean, he would eat the sweet stuff first so if its there I want to make sure its healthy sweet stuff.

Margot I know what you mean. I think at his school there is a good mix of Mums who would make stuff, some who would buy cereal bars and no doubt some who will just give them coke, crisps and chocolate. I think there were some guidelines in a letter that came home, for example we can send in a morning snack if we want to but it has to be fruit. I must dig out the letter and see what it says about lunchbox cintents.

I should also remind myself he is the slowest eater on the planet so maybe I don't want to be giving him too much stuff anyway. I keep telling him he will miss out on playtime at school if he eats his lunch too slow. It makes me feel all weepy when I think he wil be the last one sat on his own slowly building a castle out of his sandwich crusts ......
At the Christmas party he nearly missed pass the parcel as he was day dreaming in the toilets (my friend helped out, she spotted it was him who was the missing ione when the headcount didn't add up ..... he is such a dreamer ...).

I hate it when you see chilcdrens cookbooks or articles in magazines talking about exciting lunchbox ideas - you know the ones "instead of a dreary old ham sandwich and an apple why not give your child a lebanese flatbread stuffed with chickpeas, avocado and black olive paste, with an endive and raddichio salad tub, and some prunes in natural yoghurt, with a damson and cherry organic flapjack, and a carton of cold fennel tea for a filling and healthy change"
These people clearly have either no kids or plain weird ones.
:mad: :mad: :mad:

JillD_2

Nicki - fab idea but no, won't eat jam I've tried telling him strawberry jam is just strawberries and sugar, two of his favourite things but he doesnt like it.

Sarah - brownies - another fab idea - definitely no mistaking raisins for chocolate though, he would not be fooled, and I can't put nuts in "I dont like the bits" and brownies without nuts or raisins are basically just chocolate cake
We did make some chocolate crispy cakes maybe I will just have to try those. Why cant he just like flapjacks

getting-sorted-sarah

You're so right! Kids are conservative generally.

My DS is a slow eater (and a dreamer too!) and I have found that a pasty works well, just a small one - make your own and fill with whatever he'll eat. Anything fiddley gets left - he loves cucumber but won't eat it at school, the pieces take too long to eat, he says. I try and put in one substantial thing that doesn't look too much like hard work.

Most of all - relax about what he is getting - maybe concentrate on a healthy brekkie and a snack when he gets in from school. He can make his castle out of crusts or fruit pieces while relaxing back at home, telling you about his day, or moer likely - in front of CBBC!

getting-sorted-sarah

What about fruit in jelly? That would probably take too long to eat though....
Really my best advice is not to worry too much and make the other meals count. I really think lunchtimes at school can be stressful for kids.

lil_me

Suppose one way of making sure he doesn't just go through them picking the nice bits out is to not put any in. Basically plain cake, muffins, biscuits etc without anything he can pick out.

Must agree some of the lunch box ideas you see are just weird, ones which are just 'adult food' in smaller versions are fine, but some of them even I'd just close the box!

Grapes usually travel well, raspberries make a pool of red which just goes straight onto the hands and clothes. What about yoghurt? I bought some pots for DS2 who swaps between school dinners and packed lunches, we put our own 'stickers' on the pot lids and I just put in the cheap/homemade yoghurt, then the kids don't know it's not a flamin munch bunch/harry potter/cars/whatever yoghurt! Jelly too, DS1 used to love taking jellies until noone was there to feed him it one day (can't manage cutlery very well) we used to do the same and make our own in pots, can sneak fruit in aswell.

NickiM

JillD wrote: »

Nicki - fab idea but no, won't eat jam I've tried telling him strawberry jam is just strawberries and sugar, two of his favourite things but he doesnt like it.

Sarah - brownies - another fab idea - definitely no mistaking raisins for chocolate though, he would not be fooled, and I can't put nuts in "I dont like the bits" and brownies without nuts or raisins are basically just chocolate cake
We did make some chocolate crispy cakes maybe I will just have to try those. Why cant he just like flapjacks

Never mind, hehe!

Errrrrrrrm what about making a cake and giving him slices, something like plain sponge or lemon cake?

Jelly in a little tub or something?

Edit - I think lil_me and I were on the same wavelength!