to think nesquick whole grain cereal, fat free milk and no added sugar juice is relatively healthy for a fussy eater

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Hi,

My 7 year old Ds is a very fussy eater, tried everything!

I would love it if he would eat kale with cottage cheese on rice cakes for breakfast but get real no child eats perfectly like that.

Today he had a normal sized bowl of whole grain nesquick cereal with skimmed milk.I know it has some sugar in it but its only about the same as a banana and to counter this he has a glass of sugar free orange squash. Both the cereal and juice have added vitamins. Does everyone else agree this is pretty healthy and realistic breakfast?

Thanks

Marie

When you have a child with food issues the priority is calories. Phase 2 is the quality of those calories.

And I am known amongst my friends as Heinz, because I baked my own beans when I was weaning, rather than have DS within 6 foot of the salt and sugar... But he still has AS which means he very quickly went on to develop all sorts of food problems and issues.

That's what I was advised wrt DS who was very fussy and no, if he didn't like it he would refuse to eat at all.

Sometimes it's about just getting the calories in.

I love a MN breakfast thread. Looking forward to my frosty shit box in the morning.

Watching this thread with interest.

I have a 9yo fussy eater. She's in age 6-7 clothes, little bird she is. With a six pack. She dances competitively and never sits still. If I can get her to eat two spoonfuls of Rice Krispies in the a.m it's a victory. This blaming cancer and diabetes on cereal (sorry shit in a box/devil food) is a bit ridiculous. As is mrswinnebago saying kids are fussy because they are pandered too, so if I just start making home made bread from flour I milled myself grown from wheat I grew in the back garden, feed the kids organic olives and lentil stew and get rid of the foods she will eat, she'll suddenly start eating anything? No she really would just not eat until she probably passed out or became ill.

I just give her shit from a box. A steaming pile of it. With a cornichon for good measure. Balance you know. Standing by my food choices. She drinks cat milk.

Chuffing mental on here at times

DD isn't a fussy eater and she has either cereals with semi skimmed milk (not nestle, but quite often coco pops, cinnamon squares, honey loops, mini weetabix), a smoothie or a J2O or she has toast with either marmite and no butter or PBJ.

Meh, lock me up. I'm just happy she eats before school.

Oh I've just thought, sometimes she even has a chocolate croissant (are people phoning SS now?)

op why did you post this you must be mad . My opinion is that sugar free squash isn't worse than sugared. sugar rots your teeth, causes obesity, diabetes and lots of harm. Aspartame on the other hand has a few horror stories on the Internet so mn has decided it is toxic. If course in an ideal world dc should just drink water but we don't live in one of those!

Cereal isn't great but then breakfast is tricky I think, my dc also like it so eat it pretty frequently. I try to also give them something else fruit/ boiled egg if they look especially hungry.

And didn't you know ss/s milk are the cause of the obesity epidemic? Its not fast food, haribo, no exercise, it's not having full fat dairy products . Yeah, right.

Completely agree with tobysmum.

"Given the OP has already said the child is fussy I'm not sure how helpful it is to suggest drastic changes."

"Minty they stop being fussy if you don't pander to them though."

Clearly there are a lot of parents who have never had a fussy child to feed. I don't pander to DD's fussiness, but work around it because she simply will not eat something she doesn't like. She will sit there and go hungry. She often comes home from school very hungry because she didn't like the lunch options, and when I suggest a packed lunch she says no to that as well. She is 13 BTW.

LtEve - my DS often has pain au chocolat for breakfast, or a bacon sandwich , only on mumsnet do people get so neurotic over their diets.

(that reminds me to pick up an almond croissant on the way to work this morning, I have already eaten my 'shit in a box').

Don['t feel threatened. For `10,000 years since man ditched healthy meat parents, berries, roots we have started filling ourselves with carbs. We have suffered for it but people are still alive. When we started adding a lot of sguar 100 years ago things got worse and in the last 40 years since we demonised good fats sugar and carb consumption has soared. However most parents do feed their children on junk food and carbs so no is going to take yours away if you do.

However do be aware that many of us know what is good food and choose to feed our children that. We are not nutters. We are just parents who know what food is good for children. There is no point in beating yourself up if your child lives on sugar and junk and cereals. Just do the best you can in the situation you are in.

Fussy eaters of course cannot eat foods that aren't there. The easiest thing is to avoid them ever having that food in the first place although even that is hard. In our case various nannies have introduced foods which are not great and my daughter when she was 8 went to Spain with her friend's parents and they introduced her to nutella - dreadful product etc etc..

Mrs Winni above shares my views. However none of us are saying parents should be locked up because their child eats the junk most people in the Weest eat which is killing them. Just do the best you can. I have had children in this house friends of my children who are here to play. they will open every single cupboard looking for coke, biscuits and crisps and they cannot believe there are no junk foods. I have seen the looks on their faces , poor little spoilt darlings. If the junk isn't there they can't eat it. Different story once they learn to drive of course...... hard to control.

Cheese and kiwi fruit today.

Some people just never read the bloody thread though do they.

When your dealing with a fussy eater what's the point banging in about giving them a sardine egg white omelette in a homemade bran bap?

Someone up thread posted some good advice, giving the usual and slowly trying to introduce new bits is what I did.

I'm sure some of the posters haven't been over to the GP with a child that is skin and bone and just will not eat hardly anything .

At some points I would have been really bloody pleased if DS had eaten a large bowl of shit in a box to be honest.

It strikes me that we must never criticise the bad food choices that some parents make and yet it is fine to rip someone to shreds for offering healthy food.

No one is doing that though are they.

Will have to hide this thread now, actually making me very upset. I have 2 children who have had fussy phases, it is a universe away from having a child who is extremely averse to even having certain foods in front of them.

'10,000 years since man ditched healthy meat parents, berries, roots we have started filling ourselves with carbs. '

what do you think berries and roots are if not carbs?i

Red Bull and a Mars bar here. I chop the bar up into bits to keep them quiet so I can have a fag in peace outside.

LOL at bacon not being processed.

I seem to recall a couple of snidey references to cornichons.

If I were to post what my dcs had fro breakfast, it would probably be described as 'smug bleatings'.

It would seem that cereal is seen as an acceptable food stuff as it is so mainstream now. Would I be supported if I were to post that my dcs have Mars bars and diet coke for breakfast, because that is all they will eat?

'It strikes me that we must never criticise the bad food choices that some parents make and yet it is fine to rip someone to shreds for offering healthy food'

Ah but that's the crux isn't it? Which food is healthy and which isn't ? The truth I sthere is no such thing as a healthy/unhealthy food or even meal , only a healthy unhealthy diet