What can i feed the fussiest eater in the world?

Triggles

My DD used to refuse to eat certain sauces like sweet/sour types, anything spicy or peppery, or even gravy of any type. We finally tried just putting it "on the side" for her meal, in a little dish, so she could try it a teeny bit at a time by dunking bits of her meal into the sauce or gravy. She still doesn't eat any peppery sauces, but now eats gravy or other types of sauces without any problems. We just gradually moved the ones she liked from "on the side" to "cooked in the meal" and she was fine with it.

missychrissy

one of my sons wouldn't eat onions, he used to pick them out of his food and another son used to do the same with mushrooms. I got round it by liquidising them so that they couldn't see them. It worked.

I used to make corned beef and potato pie that 2 of my sons weren't keen on until I put a face on with the left over pastry bits and called it 'Smiley pie'. One day one of them decided he wanted 'Sad' pie instead so turned the mouth downwards - made everyone laugh.

One of my sons was not too keen on potato so i tried adding a few drops of food colouring. It looked a bit strange eating red/green/blue potatoes but it also worked.

Gradually they grew out of their fads and will eat anything now as far as I'm aware.

tori.k

ive also got 2 fussy kids and both me and hubby are veggies (thank the lord for the 14 yr old whose happy as long as its looks edible ) most the time i do end up making 3 different bits of meals but i plan it all around one item, mainly potatoes or rice in our house, but it does save making 3 completely different meals and i can time it so we all still eat together.

tinkerbellsmum_2

i'm a child of eat what u r told to and i am so fussy now.my son is naturally fussy i don't want to force things on him but know i need to keep offering it him as well as food i know he will eat.
could u maybe list what foods they both like and we can help u with meals from there

Emstick14

debtmuncher wrote: »

i do think your dh has a good range of foods that he will eat, i think you have just gotten fed up of cooking and in most meals having to do two or perhaps three different meals. i would have said out of the pair of htem your daughter was the harder one to cook for due to her dislike of sauces.

the only red meat i buy in this household is mince. i dont do stews/casseroles simply because i have tried once and the kiddies werent impressed. kids have the rest of their lives to try new stuff so just because they dont like it at a young age doesnt mean to say that they will dislike it for life. actually having read this all over again i might try a chicken casserole again.

i dont cook broccoli for my lot but heard that one of my ds had it for the first time last week at a friends house and ate the lot! also heard that at another friends house both ds had roast beef! first ds does like roast beef but its a once an year thing at new year for us and second ds wouldnt nor the youngest two would touch it.

Actually I find it really easy to accomodate for my daughter as OH doesn't eat mince meat that means no spag bol, lasange and he doesn't do pasta so thats all pasta bakes out, which really only leaves casseroles, curries etc. If I am doing a casserole, its no extra effort to pop a few veggies in the top of the steamer (thats cooking our potatoes) and to stick a bit of chicken, pork, sausage either in the grill or in the oven with the casserole. This way we all eat exacty the same thing at the same time and there isn't a need to cook 2 completely seperate meals!

Emstick14

Triggles wrote: »

My DD used to refuse to eat certain sauces like sweet/sour types, anything spicy or peppery, or even gravy of any type. We finally tried just putting it "on the side" for her meal, in a little dish, so she could try it a teeny bit at a time by dunking bits of her meal into the sauce or gravy. She still doesn't eat any peppery sauces, but now eats gravy or other types of sauces without any problems. We just gradually moved the ones she liked from "on the side" to "cooked in the meal" and she was fine with it.

Actually I could start doing this, thanks. I used to do this when she hit 18months and became a fussy toddler, I would make her a meal she liked then also gave her a small plate of other food to try and slowly but surely we go there in the end!

I need to start buying lentils and making meals that contain less meat or none at all - this seems like the only way to do it. Veggie casseroles etc Will have to look for recipes for inspiration.

Thanks everybody that has replied:D

Bombchelle

What a terrible position you're in, Emstick14!

The only thing I can think of immediately is jazzing up your meats with marinades/spices and grilling them.

puddy

I moved in permanently with my partner in June, prior to that he mostly just stayed at mine.
Therefore I am now fully alive to the contrary and fussy nature of this man when it comes to food. I am the one who manages our finances (against his every attempt to spend what we dont have) AND I am the cook.

So every night, I get 'what we got for tea then?'

and when I say what we've got, I get 'oh.....'

He is very traditional and would like meat and 2 veg every night or stew. I was vegetarian for 15 years and whilst I like meat now, I dont want it every day. I would like to have 2 nights of meat free, 2 nights of chicken, 2 nights of fish and one of red meat.

however there are a list of requirements he has which makes planning for meals difficult and not very money saving. I also dont like a lot of what he would like....

He wont eat: eggs, pasta, things with cheese on top, things with cheese in, buttery or creamy sauces, peppers, tinned fish., baked beans, very tomatoey things.
He wont eat things that have been open more than 2 days. He wont eat the same meal 2 nights running. He wont eat left overs. He wont eat meals that have been created from a previous meal (left overs), disguised into a new meal.

I wont eat offal (which he states he would eat most of the time if he could), I dont like tinned meats which he would eat.

He loves rice, but likes to cook stir fried rice with rice just cooked (wont eat it the next day), I dont like this because stir fried rice should really be done with day old rice and Im not keen on chinesey tastes anyway. I dont mind rice as a side dish.

So, I have been cooking stews, even though I get fed up with them but find them expensive because I cant use the left overs, they have to be thrown away.
I make a lovely tuna chilli, which he is now refusing to eat because he says we have it 'every night' (its actually once a week or fortnight). I also make a lovely fish curry, which was going to be tonights tea but he's turned his nose up.

I cant let him choose and cook his own stuff because he spends too much and cooks up too much (if he cooks rice, its usually enough for 4 people at least, he wastes a lot of food)

What on earth can I cook for us that we would both like and cheap?? I suppose we're both fussy really but his list of dont likes seem longer than mine!

thanks

McKneff

just swap places for a month.

Dont tell him that they are leftovers lol. Disguise them even more.

LegalBlonde

"was going to be tonight's tea but he's turned his nose up" so what happened - did you throw it away and cook something else? Or is he just starving hungry to cut his nose off to spite his face???

If you are looking after the finances, let him go to the supermarket ONCE to get your ingredients so he can see how hard it is and then maybe he won't be as fussy!

I do all the money sorting, food shopping (OH drops me off and picks me up - my choice) and cooking, but to his credit OH does not make comments about what we have often and certainly wouldn't turn his nose up to something that is one day old - this is what I mean, let him look after it for a week and he will see he is being too fussy for your budget!

My OH will tell me when he is not fussed on something but that just means I know he is being honest when he does like stuff - in fact he is a man with little to no interest in food but he does give me a Come Dine With Me score every night at my request! x