<screams> to expect to find just one or two frickin meals that BOTH my children will eat....

[ChugtasticCrew]

Just made pasta with homemade tom sauce and meatballs (pork mince, grated apple...I really TRIED....)
DS loved it, dd still picking at hers
Dd likes Jacket potatoes, ds doesn't
Dd likes cheese, ds doesn't
Ds likes baked beans, dd doesn't

I could go on

[PlumBumMum]

I'm right there with you ChugtasticCrew
I'm fed up making three different variations of same meals

[ChugtasticCrew]

Plum - oh just wait there will be the 'they eat what they're given' band on here soon. Just let me at 'em, let me at 'em.....

[PlumBumMum]

No I've tried that
and the Inever used to ask my mum what was for dinner routine
Just means the dogs end up with lots of left overs

[PlumBumMum]

Talking of dinner mine will be burn't if I don't get off mn

[DoThisDoThat]

Ah, my two like the same thing, but only if I call it something different..

e.g. Macaroni Cheese to DS2 MUST be called Macaroni Pasta to DS1 or he won't eat it.

YANBU. Have a drink.

[ChugtasticCrew]

LOL...drink sounds good. I'd rather have a slab of dairy milk though

Plum attend to your dinner!

[ShyBaby]

I always have to cook different meals. ds wont eat anything with sauce or any "wet" food at all. Dd hates most things. I like everything.

Its a complete pain. I have tried the "you'll have what you're getting" approach and they just refuse to eat

[pushchair]

No advice just lots of sympathy. Swore I would never do it but often do. Otherwise I am of the 'thats all there is and if you don't like it there is nothing else' camp but end up crying into the wine when they wont eat.

[Rollmops]

Eggs Florentine is much beloved by little Rollmops twins. Mummy feels ever so smug , why, feeding children bucketfuls of spinach, regularly, deserves a medal, no! ]

[onager]

Well we WERE taught to eat what we were given and we did. To be honest it never occured to us that we had a say in it.

However, I see no harm in doing stuff they enjoy as long as it's not too much extra work. Can you work out some system like "if you eat this you get to have so and so tomorrow"?

[PlumBumMum]

Sorry chugtastic homemade savoury mince pie and chips is being eaten by all 3dc

Confession no veg on plate to put ds and dd2 off

And ds dosen't realise there is onions and gravy in the pie

[wetwipe]

Hi i have the same problem G will only eat cold food, not even warm food!!
i guess when D gets bigger he will show G the way! Good luck and hope you find somthing soon N.x

[PlumBumMum]

Oh can I have a glass of wine now

[thirtysomething]

can I gatecrash to ask how you make your pie plumbum?

I have same problem - DD hates sauces and salad veg, DS loves sauces and salad but not other veg...neither much likes potato or rice...one veggie one meat-lover....one will only eat macaroni cheese if called pasta with white sauce, the other thinks he hates white sauce so will only eat if I whisper to him that it's actually cheesy sauce...the list goes on and on - have to give things different names or child in question refuses point blank to eat (eg tomato sauce has to be called tomato KETCHUp sauce (no ketchup in there though) or DD throws wobbly.....

[PlumBumMum]

hate to admit but simple
fry off some onions
add mince and oxo cube until brown
add carrots etc here if you like
add water
Let it bubble
then I add bisto powder to thicken
let it simmer for as long as you like
then pop it in you pastry (shop bought, Jamie recomends)

sorry if abit haphazzard but I'm always throwing different bits in depending on how receptive I think the kids are!!

[naturalbornmum]

I have tried the 'they'll eat what they are given', er no they won't. Meal times are easier in our now as DD1 has a school dinner - yipee.

[piscesmoon]

I just serve it up-their choice is to take it or leave it.

[ChugtasticCrew]

I am so very glad I am not one of Pisces children.

[Othersideofthechannel]

Chugtastic, how old are they? I remember when there was only a couple of meals they both enoyed. But they get used to seeing the food and eventually give it a go.

DS had many, many meals of plain rice or couscous until he would give meat in a sauce a taste. DD has always loved meat so has he got used to seeing her eat it and now will eat a few bit of meat lifted out of the sauce.

[ChugtasticCrew]

Mine are 4 and 5. I live in hope

[Othersideofthechannel]

So are mine.

It doesn't mean it's a lost cause though! I think eating in school canteen since they were 3 and 4 respectively has also helped.

[Twims]

I agree Pisces that's what I do too

[wetwipe]

Mine is only 2 and this has been going on for nerly a year. (
ive managed to get him eating at least 4fruit and a few veg and my HB makes home made chips at work for him then brings them home so atleast he will eat a bit of potato.

[wetwipe]

I also agree with pisces thats what we do.

[PlumBumMum]

I'm still here Chugtastic

Could do the same meal next week and only dd1 will eat it
although think I'm on to a winner with the savoury mince thats twice they all ate it

Have a glass of wine (chink)