What kind of child doesn't like apple crumble?!

[BlowDryRat]

Light-hearted, before people bash me over the head for not considering children with sensory issues etc.

DD has a friend over to play. Lovely. I said we'd give the child dinner. I'm making a chilli for everyone. Child says she'll try it but probably won't like it. Ok, I can work with that.

I threw an apple crumble together and was thinking of adding tomatoes and sweetcorn to the rice, do at least she gets something. No. Child does not like tomatoes or apple crumble.

The tomatoes I can understand, but surely everyone like apple crumble?!

I now have fish fingers in the oven. These are apparently acceptable.

Margaret, I do have some sympathy for adults who have some food issues. I went from crying at being expected to eat ordinary meals at my friends' houses on a play date (or whatever they were called in the 80s) eg spag bol or cottage pie, to eating anything really as an adult. But it was a very gradual process. What helped for me was realising that nothing terrible happened if I tried a bite of somethign and couldn't stomach it. And the best place to do that for me was at works training days where there was a buffet or trays of sandwiches that you just quickly grabbed while the queue built up behind you. No-one really pays attention to what anyone else is eating at those things. So some things I used to only have a bite of something then put it aside. But as the years went on I'd try things on those types of occasions for a second or third time (eg prawn or egg mayo sandwiches) and eventually I began to quite like the taste. I'd never pick an egg mayo sandwich as a lunch from a supermarket though,t here's always things I'd prefer, but I CAN eat it now.

My fussy DS2 found that a decent quality all-inclusive hotel on holiday helped him to try new stuff. He could help himself to just a very small amount of something he wasn't sure of, and knew that no-one would judge if he left it on his plate uneaten. Was useful in expanding the palate of my less fussy DS1, who tried stuff like smoked eel and king prawns for the first time in his life, and enjoyed them.

It amazes me how restricted some peoples diets are.

What age is the visiting child? My ds 11 would try everything you've mentioned, even if he doesn't like it he would have a good go at it. Ds 7 would not eat any of those options , he'd probably be a bit distressed about it and would go hungry. We are trying to expand what he will eat but it's slow going. There's plenty he does eat but he wouldn't eat chilli, rice, tomatoes, fish fingers or crumble.

I went from crying at being expected to eat ordinary meals at my friends' houses on a play date (or whatever they were called in the 80s) eg spag bol or cottage pie, to eating anything really as an adult.

To be fair to you, spag bol in the 80s was pretty unusual (or posh), not your standard tea at a friends house meal

Strange question.
Neither of my children like cooked fruits or jam, and one dislikes very sweet food. Both love raw fruit.- So in our house a fruit crumble would be left uneaten.

No one in our house ikes ice cream! Far too cold.

When I was a kid apple crumble used to make me shudder. Hot apples 🤢. Bloody love it now! Love it most with a dollop of ice cream.

Some people seem to be taking this a bit personally. I know this child pretty well. I like her. I didn't make a big deal of her choices. She was perfectly happy eating rice, sweetcorn and fish fingers. Her parents are ace.

I was just astonished that a child didn't like apple crumble. I have never come across this before. I love apple crumble! But now I know that it's not the safe option I previously thought it was.

I'm a midday supervisor in an infant school (around 100 children) and the majority don't like crumble and custard! Bonkers!

My son, doesn't like cooked fruit so I just cook him crumble on its own and serve with custard!!

One of mine will happily eat chilli but won't eat most of the things others on this thread are saying all children eat.

No to potatoes of any description, sausages, fish fingers, baked beans, jam sandwiches.

However from an early age he's eaten all sorts of pasta dishes, curries, stirfries, Chinese and of course pizza.

Neither of my dc (13/15) would eat apple crumble or chilli to be fair.
It's the textures. As a child I don't think I would've eaten chilli (don't like it much now especially kidney beans) and cooked apples - nope!

It's fine to offer whatever you were cooking, not your fault they are fussy. I say this as the parent of an incredibly fussy autistic dd, as far as I was concerned, if she didn't like what was offered tough, she could have cereal when she got home. My tough stance paid off because by her teens she started to actually eat vegetables

Mine won't eat any traditional puddings much to my disappointment...

I suppose they get their sweet fix from chocolate and sweets which they get much freer access to than I had as a child. When I was young I loved puddings of all sorts other than Bakewell well tart

I never did.
Something like chocolate ice cream is more my thing.
I never liked chilli either.
Will eat both now.

We hardly ever cook traditional puddings, we didn't have them growing up as my parents didn't have a sweet tooth and the school dinner versions were enough to put anyone off. It's a lack of time thing too, we are out a lot in the evenings and on Sunday afternoons.

I don’t like apple crumble. Sorry.

We had this Christmas Day. I demolished it. My 12 year old didn’t touch it

I can’t have dairy - I just use a vegan baking block. Flora do a pretty convincing one as do violife. Stork is dairy free but I do try and avoid it due to the palm oil content

People like different things, my son doesn’t like pizza, cheese, chocolate 😱😱😱

My youngest (10) doesn’t eat anything with sauce - so no mince gravy etc so def wouldn’t have chilli 11 year old is just a fussy git and wouldn’t eat chilli either and only one of the 4 of them would have eaten apple crumble.

Howve it sounds like a lovely dinner op, I would love to come stay for dinner - I really fancy apple crumble now

If either DC has friends over, we cook them 'easy food' like pasta or plain rice with a plain easily distinguished protein (meatballs as opposed to a 'mixed up' bolognese, for instance), and a simple vegetable side, such as sliced cucumber. This is not because our DC are fussy eaters (they eat everything) but rather because most of their friends seem to be, and I really want my DC to feel like 'good' hosts, sharing easily enjoyable food with their friends and talking and laughing during their meal instead of trying to pick bits of onion out of a stew.

I can't stand apple crumble or any kind of cooked fruit, slimy and grim.

Sorry neither of mine would have eaten any of that either ( well ds might have tried the apple crumble to be polite, dd no chance ).

Sadly these damn children have the oddest tastes.

DS1 wouldn't eat apple crumble or apple pie, hates peanut butter , hates melted cheese and hates milk on cereal , much prefers it dry.

I swear if I hadn't actually given birth to him and he happened to look a dead ringer for me I would question if he was my child.

Ds2 however eats exactly the same way I do except for his pathological fear of any vegetable that isn't a carrot. I assume he will get past that or we are going to have a very awkward conversation with the GP about the reappearance of Scurvy in the UK. (For pearl clutchers I am joking...about him eating it ...not the pathological fear because that's true but apparently the desire for the veg to turn him into a superhero counteracts the fear of broccoli. He does eat veg...under duress....before I am reported for scurvy risk).

Dc have the oddest ideas about food. I of course as a child was an angel and ate everything....cough splutter.