to give my dcs only breakfast and supper

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during the holidays?

I am fecking bored of them turning up their royal little hooters at lunch and supper every single day.

I reckon if I just gave them supper with unlimited fruit during the day, they'd hoof it down.

For example, today lunch was baked potatoes with egg or tuna mayo or cheese and onion filling and a corn cob each. Nope. They didn't fancy that.

Supper was spaghetti bolognese with hidden vegetable sauce. They ALL picked and pecked, shuffled the food about and just asked about dessert. No dessert!

They are 9, 7, 4 and very nearly 2. I swear the 2 year old is expert at being snooty about the food I place in front of him because he sees his siblings being choosy.

So, make 'em too hungry to be snooty, I say. Aibu?

I have one the same, luckily though the other 3 will hoover up anything put in front of them.

YANBU

Mine get one cooked meal and one picnic meal a day, plus breakfast. When they are being particularly ungrateful I threaten bran flakes for the next meal. Have only gone through with it once!

3 choices of baked potato filling?!
(although OK, all easy)

I never had CHOICES as a child.

I say offer less options (2 max cos fair enough with 4 kids there'll be genuine likes and dislikes) and then that's it. You don't want it, you go hungry.

I'm not one to withhold pudding as despite the above I don't see food as a good place for a battleground.

But pudding portions should be small, so they go hungry on that alone and can come back to reheat the main meal.

Eat, or go hungry.
Be snooty if they like - but they are, because it gets them what they want!

I provide lunch & dinner during the holidays. Breakfast is never eaten anyway. Dinner is sometimes late enough to be called Supper. Snacks are available in between.

I find asking in advance what is fancied works better than plonking something down. If something ridiculous is chosen, then a compromise can ensue.

You are not running a restaurant - just say Lunch Is Pasta With Tomato Sauce. Would anyone like salad/sweetcorn/catfood/whatever

You are not being unreasonable.

I would suggest that the 7 and 9 year old can get their own breakfast and help the 4 year old get his/hers so you just need to supervise and sort out the 2 year old.

Then let them know fruit is available all day, until supper.

I would only offer dessert if all of the supper is eaten and even then not every day (I´m a mean mommy!)

Make sandwiches. Chop crudites. Place in fridge. They're there when they're wanted.

Have you asked the older kids what they actually fancy for lunch? Two cooked meals a day isn't a necessity, really. You are in danger of martyring yourself by doing that when they don't even fancy it.

You're putting way too much effort in. Sandwich for lunch and the eldest makes them!

I do a soup and sandwich lunch and a cooked dinner. I batch cook the soup. Breakfast can be cereal, toast or a bacon buttie, or they can skip breakfast if they wish and just have lunch. Fruit, crackers and snacks are available too.

2 meals for us, good breakfast, good dinner. I'm bored shitless of making picnics every day for lunch, so now I just take a few punnets of fruit and some cereal bars.

Nice meal choices, but agree you are trying too hard.
The fact that they are not eating what you offer is proof they are not hungry. Could you wait until they tell you?? Sandwiches are ideal IMO. With 4 dc I don't know how you find the time anyway. :/)

During the school holidays mine usually eat breakfast for lunch, fruit... Ok who am I kidding...crisps and ice lollies throughout the afternoon then I make tea and if they can be dragged inside from playing out they'll eat it, if not it's reheated when they do venture in. No hard and fast rules in our house in holidays. Especially if weathers good as they'll be outside. Sometimes tea is a picnic out in the garden.

I give mine only breakfast and dinner in the holidays.

But then they sleep through 'breakfast time' so their breakfast is really their lunch.

Yes so other days it is a sandwich or soup with crusty bread.

I'm not doing amazing meals here. I just want them to eat.

I'm going to do it. Tomorrow I will arrange it so breakfast is late even though they all get up at 6.30am.

Then we will be out all day so they won't even notice lunch not turning up!

Roast chicken should go down a treat come 6pm!

Witchway catfood haha!