To not understand adult food vs kids food?

It does seem to be a British thing. This division of food.

I raised mine to eat good food from the start. We just asked for a smaller plate or a main as a starter size. Rarely had issue.

We all ate good food together and never from a kids menu.

I remember once an uncle being helpful ordered my children and his children, food in a pub.

When it arrived it was chicken nuggets. My son declared it wasn't proper chicken as it didn't have any bones in it. He refused to eat it.

Because, despite their patents best efforts, not all kids like "adult food".

Some children like more simple flavours or might get overwhelmed by new dishes, so having something safe can be a huge relief for them.

Some children don't have the same reaction, so wonderful that they don't need kids menu. You can always ask for a half portion or share at your table/take leftovers.

On MN anything done in the UK is inferior to the rest of the world, usually said by those who have never lived abroad. In the US there is usually a children's menu, our grandson once ordered mac'n'cheese and the waiter told him 'and that comes with a side of fries'.

What is posh nosh? Anything not breaded and fried?

My 2 year old will eat anything spicy food, sushi, paella, olives, any vegetable you care to name. I would be so smug and probably writing a book about how to have a child with a fabulous varied diet if it wasn't for his 3 year old sister who exists on sausage and mash, fish fingers and chips, garlic bread, yoghurt, and the culinary delight that is pasta and grated cheese. If I can get a forkful of peas into her it's a good day.

he could have happily tried it and then not like it but considering he was put off before he even got chance was my point.

and they could literally have put anything or nothing on it. It was just fun. For reference every other child at least tried their pizza.

in my experience parents are mostly the problem.

Well I'd definitely find the champagne an issue

Joking aside, I completely agree. People are shocked when they see my child eating smoked salmon cream cheese bagel for breakfast, someone once said "just buy him some pancakes" he doesn't like pancakes! 🙃

Good on you. So did I. DS is still tube fed because of the extent of his food aversion.

Extremely weird reaction to what is, essentially, fish fingers

So if you are already eating at a Green King pub you should only feed your kid nuggets, rather than let them have a curry?

Or you do decide to go somewhere relatively nice, cos you wouldn't be there if you couldn't afford it, you should be a stingy bastards and give them sausages and mash rather than the salmon dish they really wanted?

Or if you have kids round for a sleepover, you should 100% order Domino's in, rather than make homemade lasagne or even homemade pizza (even though that's cheaper by miles).

I do find it a bit pretentious to feed your kids posh nosh be honest.

Why, mine love gourmet restaurants just as much as we do. Why shouldn't I take them?

Ds 10 loves calamari,mussels,prawns in fact all seafood.We got him to try them very young. ....and he happened to like them.....

Do you think everyone with fussy eaters has never thought of (and tried) offering them other food..?

I'm interested to know the meaning of pretentious and posh here.

Do you mean pretentious as in doing something people of a certain station in life shouldn't do?

What makes a food posh posh?

I was raised to eat the same food my parents ate, no 'kid's food' or separate dinners, and as my mum had coeliac disease beige freezer foods were a very rare treat. I was still quite fussy as a child, carefully scraping all the sauce off my food and swallowing it down with water but we had to eat everything so everything (more or less) got eaten.

My children have always had the same food as us too, but there were a few years when everything had to be served with ketchup to my youngest, even pudding(!) And a period where he pretty much only ate beetroot - I'd serve everything but include beetroot and mostly only the beetroot got eaten he eats better now he's 6, and rarely asks for ketchup any more. And oldest had to have everything on separate plates for several years. But I always kept on serving the same foods.
We eat beige foods sometimes, but we all eat them, not just the kids. Funnily enough they both dislike the common kid food of fishfinger.

I do find it a bit pretentious to feed your kids posh nosh be honest. Then again Im a "dish them up turkey twizzlers chips and beans" kind of mum

@KirstenBlest I think we are talking about more than food pouches and jars

@Oppenjam In spite of your local area, there are a lot of chain restaurants in Britain. My local high street is full of them.

I don’t understand it either. I detest kids menus- the food there is not something I’d consider food suitable to give my kid (I appreciate there are fussy eaters and that’s all they’d eat though). I’ve always ordered from the normal menu to them- grilled fish, grilled meats, vegetables, etc.

The whole “oh you WONT like that darling”‘is just setting them up for failure 😂
Totally the opposite with me.

@Manypaws , the food pouches/jars are expensive compared to standard family food

@DogInATent this is such a load of crap. In my small town we have independently run Indian, Chinese, Italian, Greek, French, Spanish, Thai and British restaurants. Please tell us what the ‘same predictable’ menu is at all these places? And not a single chain restaurant, but yes of course all we want is a bland chain restaurant, clearly no demand for anything else 🙄.

Perhaps people give their children what they can afford

Ds 10 loves calamari,mussels,prawns in fact all seafood.We got him to try them very young.

@DogInATent yes, no other country has bland chain restaurants

I think it's wierd, our kids ate what we ate. At 3 we could take them to an Indian or Chinese restaurant and there were no kids meals! I think you're absolutely right to introduce your little one to a wide range of foods. I can't imagine feeding a 3 year old baby food from a jar 😳