Kids not liking tea driving me insane.

[KindergartenKop]

My children are driving me insane. Pretty much everything I cook one of them complains about it. I asked ds2 if he would eat the things I had planned for tea (rice, peas, carrots and prawns). He said yes. He's moaning about it. As is his brother.

Things they will both eat:
Spaghetti Bolognese
Chilli and wraps
Sausages (not with mash, DS2 gags at that)
Delicious freezer foods.

I don't offer an alternative meal, it's this or nothing and I've never pandered to whinges. I can't give them the above list every day, they need to eat a wide variety of foods. But I can see that this is why some children live off chicken nuggets.

Help. Send gin.

I'm all over not "pandering", but that sounds vile, unless it's cooked in a way that's significantly more appealing than you first presented.

As it stands, it sounds like a meal that people produce on the "meals you hated a a child" threads...

My parents always forced me to eat what was on my plate and I always hated it. I'm still a fussy eater as an adult but it's about texture not taste mainly.

Can you involve them in menu planning and cooking. Make food not a fear thing. It's honestly miserable as a fussy eater, it's like being frightened. Can see it with my own child and have found quite a lot of success in one bite to try rules. Making sure new food isn't touching food she likes the first time it's on the plate, family service style meals, only one new food with a meal, etc.

It's not really on to make a Muslim eat pork...

I do give them spag bol most weeks but we had chilli last night so I wanted to avoid more tomato goo.

I'd agree the rice combo is weird but it's essentially special fried rice without the egg. They love plain rice and DS2 definitely agreed to it so he's to blame!

@orangeshoebox
What a snobby comment. You sound a total dick.

😃 OK - fair enough!

I don't mind cooking. It's just the deciding what to make that gets right on my nerves

I have found my people

ourkidmolly, I went back to see what @orangeshoebox said and see nothing snobbish about it at all. When I first saw the thread title I thought the thread was about tea, as in Tetley or Yorkshire, and wondered what the problem was because it isn't unusual for young children not to like it.

Moving on, doesn't anyone cook lamb chops, chicken portions, cottage pie, fish and that sort of thing, with veg, any more? My husband and I did that sort of thing of an evening - plus spag bol which is most people's favourite.

grandma feeds them and they'll eat anything she bloody makes!

Maybe because she doesn't fuss so much, and doesn't care if they don't eat it? Experience has probably taught her that they won't starve.

Well said Tavannach.