What can i feed the fussiest eater in the world?

leyla-aurelia

My lot love 'bean-mix':
-200g tin mixed beans--I use tesco taco beans or mixed dried beans cooked as per instructions (I soak and boil 3 bags at a time and freeze in portions)
-1 tin cheap baked beans
-2 tins cheap tomatoes

-3-4 carrots
-2 onions
-Stick celery
-2 garlic cloves
-stock cube
-dash worcester sauce/soy sauce/seasoning

Dice veg, put everything into a slow cooker, and cook on low all day.
Serve with rice, plus grated cheese if wanted (kids!)

We often eat it once a week and it's the one meal that nobody complains about, healthy and easy too!

Casseroles do well in a slow cooker too--chicken, sausage, cheap steak etc.

Pink.

Hi milliemonster,

You can still use spaghetti to make pasta bakes. My step-mum makes a tuna pasta bake with it and it's lovely. Just make the sauce a bit more 'wet' than you normally would.

To get increase his carbs could you try him with couscous? Or could you make him stews and casseroles using cheaper cuts of meat with crusty bread?

For cheaper meal ideas have a look here and there's an earlier thread on fussy eaters that may give you some ideas too:

What can i feed the fussiest eater in the world?

I'll add your thread to that one later to keep the suggestions together.

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charlies82

Hi everyone,

need meal ideas, my OH and i eat most things but my daughter 3yrs has become very fussy! my other 1 year old will also eat most things.

Need ideas what to make for fussy toddlers and to disguise veg in her food! obviously i would like this for the whole family. i love making from scratch so open to suggestions also have a slow cooker.

Many Thanks
charlotte

McKneff

just a little tip, let her help you prepare the food, its amazin how it helps.

charlies82

thanks, the problem is i do, but still no luck not unless its cakes we are making lol! i even have a veg patch in our garden so she can see where veg comes from.

AussieLass

I had this a while back with my DGS who is 3 1/2. We look after him quite a bit and he sleeps over about 4 nights a week. For arv tea I only give him fruit. By that way he's hungry at tea. If he starts being fussy at tea, he is not allowed pudding. But me & Poppa have it. He carries on like a pork chop of course, :rolleyes: but I tell him if he doesn't eat his tea he can't have any. He wipes his tears and sits up and eats it.

Of course if he hates something I don't bother but things he has been eating quite happily since he was little he was balking at. Was driving me up the wall. He helps me all the time preparing and it didn't seem to make any difference when he was in that stage. But all kids are different.

gairlochgal

Hi there

I wouldn't go down the road of disguising vegetables, but work on getting her to like them. How about playing around with different approaches to meals just to break up routines a bit? eg baked potatoes with a few toppings that everyone can choose and add for themselves. or veg, gravy, salad in dishes on the table so she can help herself to more. To some extent you just have to ride this out - their tastes change rapidly I think, plus they discover they can wind you up big time with food resistance, and there are physical aspects eg a lot of children hate "chewy" meat.

And have you sorted out what your table rules are, ie what you insist on them eating and what the consequences are? There's nothing worse for a family meal than a row about food, so it's great to have your position worked out in advance. My rules at that sort of age were that the kids had to taste everything on their plate, not allowed to call food yukky! (the big one would say yuk and set off the little one). And I did not insist on clean plates but there was absolutely no pudding for unfinished meals, so they understood the consequences and the choice they were making.

HTH, hasn't been plain sailing with my two but they're pretty good. The main thing is to keep mealtimes a pleasure for all of you

charlies82

Thanks! that has made me think of something else i forgot to add, her sis usually eats all of her food so i give her pudding but then feel bad and end up giving in to older one:o because i feel mean! maybe i should only do pudding once a week that way saving money aswell.

charlies82

gairlochgal, thankyou thats great advice need to put it on the table so she can help herself abit! table rules well i really need to set some as i always end up arguing with a 3 yr old should know better lol. as silly as it sound i do get her to at least put it to her lips, i.e give the carrot a kiss trying to get her to slowly eat it! or i pretend to call the fairy down to watch her eat.

sandraroffey

one golden rule - never make mealtimes a battle ground!!! i have 5 - all grown up now though - but if all they would eat was mash and baked beans and cheese, then thats what i gave them!! their taste soon changes back again. we grown ups dont eat what we dont like, why should they?? all mine now eat absolutely everything - except tripe - and yes there was times when they ate the same thing for weeks on end, but it soon changes back.