ARGGGHHHH!! Why won't my kids eat my food!!

egon

I agree with pigpen and the others.

My boys (DS's are nearly 3 and nearly 1) have been through a patch not that long ago, where they have hardly eaten anything all day. I was lucky, when a slice of bread was eaten!?!?!?!?! I have never forced them to eat anything, but I also refuse to cook different meals. Just sit back and relax about this, and eventually they will come around to see it your way.

I now give my boys only a tiny snack in between meals (maybe a yoghurt or a fruit). After 4 pm they don't get anything until dinner time.(We eat around 5.30)
My boys don't seem to need much foodwise.....???????

Maybe, your boys are having a secret snack stash :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

mophead

Hi,

Just wanted to add that i agree with everyone else i cook one meal and if you don't eat/ like it then :cool: .

One thing i do when menu planning ask them if they have any suggestions (might be hard with a 1 year old) but this helps me and they help me in the kitchen too.

I recently put my 5 year old on school dinners to try and encourage him to eat different food because he was extremly fussy. He has really improved and started eating lot's of different foods. When i picked him up from school i asked him what was for dinner today? It was pasta with tomato and vegatable sauce and he ate all of it! He has just started eating oranges cut into 8 which he would'nt entertain before.

My OH is the fussiest of the lot :mad: so if i am cooking anything i know he won't like i tell him that there is bread and ham in the fridge help yourself.

lucasmum

Its so nice to hear that its not just my kids/my cooking!! I do worry about what they eat or don't eat but I also HATE wasting food.
I did try DS1 with school dinners but for 2 weeks he had tuna jacket potato and no pudding every day. I wish they wouldn't give a 5 yr old a choice! I did not want to pay £1.75 each day for a tuna jp.
I must learn to take a deep breath and not worry so much-lol easier said than done! Thanks for all your advice

Penelope_Penguin

lucasmum wrote: »

I have been quite strict and not made seperate meals and no food after dinner etc, but if this goes on for much longer they will starve!

They won't You say DH is fussy. He needs to get a grip, eat your delicious food, and back you up :T He needs to eat everything on his plate and stop being a wuss

Do you include your children in the choosing and cooking of what you eat? That may well pay dividends.

Good luck, Penny. x

lucasmum

DS1 loves helping me cook. His knowledge of food is quite good. He knows all his veg etc. I do bake with him but again I have to be in the right frame of mind because I like things done properly and being 5 he is quite messy and doesn't follow directions well! God I sound like a dragon- I'm not really just mabe a bit of a control freak!!
I do have to get tough with OH, i am just used to his attitude of I want to do this so I am doing it/I don't want to so I'm not. He isn't very good at looking at things from anyone elses point of view, but that just a man thing isn't it??

wendy+5

Could you let DS1 choose a meal one night a week? He could help make it and might be more interested in eating it!

My eldest is almost 5 too and for the longest time existed on a slice of toast and handful of grapes a day! To be honest, some days he doesn't eat much more than that now.

pigpen

well .. my hubby quit being a vegetarian after 22 years because he thought it would make meal times easier.. .. I had been with him 18 of those 22 years so it wasn't a change just for me.. and I wouldn't have ever asked him... but it does make life simpler!

sammy_kaye18

pigpen wrote: »

We do not parley with terrorists and anarchists!!! lol.. savvy???

How weird - im sat oogling.............i mean watching strictly for informative reasons an Orlando Bloom/Jpohnny DEpp (ala POTC) fanvid on YouTube and giggled at that comment.



Back to the original point of the post - my almso t4 year odl son is treated the same - he would live on jam sandwiches if he had the choice. he loves them. If I serve a dinner and he doesnt eat it then tough poop. He is generally quite meat phobic - my own doing i was so keen to make sure he ate fruit and veg as a baby it was all i made his baby food from - so if i put a few strands (literally strands) of roast chicken on a plate he wont entertain it - put brocolli, carrots and peas on the plate and he'll wolf them down - the same with a punnet of strawberries in the fridge and he'll raid them.

I generally try to make sure there is something he'll liek on the plate so he will eat it - if he oly eats that one thing and turns his nose up then fine. He gets nothing else afterwards. We eat at about 5.30 - he goes to bed at 7.30 and occassionally (liek present) he is poorly so not eating much in the day but he asked for a bowl of cereal before bed which he had today. Generally though as a rule me and boyfriend dont tend to give him puddings/sweets after his meal unless he has eaten 90% of it.

He does also get a treat too - i mean little healthy treat liek a piece fo fruit etc/strawberris if he tries somethign new - recently we have manged to get him onto fish fingers, sausage (onyl form the takeaway for soem reason though not mine) sliced chicken in a roll and Birds Eye chicken burgers which is a big deal for us and the most meats i think he has ever eaten.

lucasmum

Well- I have to admit to being the awkward one on that front- I am veggie!! God do I sound like I hypacrit now?? I am not a fussy eater just don't eat meat but I have never made a big deal over it with the kids. They also get the choice of a veggie sausage if I'm eating it. But a lot of the time I will eat the same as them just minus the meat!

pigpen

That's basically what I did with hubby.. I think the difference is you are an adult and can make that informed choice for yourself these are small children who really don't have any idea when it comes to most ethical reasons behind such choices.. they'll see it you give them food and they want to play and can't be sitting still as it takes too much time.

That doesn't make you a hypocrite.. it makes you a mum who is concerned about her childrens apparent lack of food intake.

Tell you what.. tomorrow write down every piece of food your children eat.. I bet it surprises you just how much they do consume! ...