Do your children eat a full traditional Christmas lunch?

[Babieseverywhere]

I was looking at my Facebook (I know) and I was amazed at how many children were sitting down to a full traditional Christmas lunch with no fussiness.

So are our kids, the only fussy ones out there, who turn their noses up at lovely turkey and roasties ?

Mine do . Although this is the first year my 7 year old has agreed to eat roast potatoes, gravy and chicken. She's normally very fussy. Ds on the other hand eats anything put in front of him.

DD2 eats everything. DD1 won't eat stuffing but then I swap her stuffing for my sprouts so I guess she's as fussy as me. I can't get my head round a child that won't eat a roast dinner!

My DDs also ate everything until 2 and then got very fussy. But have been much better since they turned 8 or 9. DD2(10) now eats a variety of vegetables and fruits. 2 years ago she wouldn't touch either, except for potato.

But in saying that, they have very different tastes in food, and I regularly end up giving them 2 different meals. (I bulk cook and use my freezer a lot).

Mine (7, 5, 3) all love roast dinner, which is essentially what Christmas dinner is. Of course Christmas dinner is even better because of the pigs in blankets!

No. Both have stopped eating all parts of roast dinners in the last 9months :(

Mine decided half way through that she no longer liked potatoes and refused to finish her peas.
She filled up on Turkey with cranberry sauce basically.
Refused brocolli (which she loves) as it had a white sauce beside it.
She's 2.
Did all these pictures on facebook (the route of all evil I think) show the kids plates before they were eaten or after? I bet loads of those kids didn't eat every scrap.
Having said that, both my young nephews cleared their plates. Several times. greedy buggers

Mine demolish all of theirs, but they are 19, 16 & 12 anyway, so well able there. The younger two are not keen on sprouts, but eat everything else.

Ds1+3 ate the full lot including parsnips and sprouts. Ds2 who has ASD and doesn't eat potatoes of any sort or veg of any sort ate gammon. At least he sat at the table this year though.

they did.
at least most of it.
though got up after 15 min to play with their toys

I was quite fussy as a child. Except for roast dinners, would eat it all, no problem. There may be a few kids like that.

Plus you're not seeing what's left on the plates at the end of the meal.

Mine do.

But then they are 15, 13 and 11. Mind you they have always loved a roast - not fussed about the meat especially but have always liked the veg. Recall DS2's first Christmas, aged 8mo, put a load of carrots, sprouts and chicken on his high chair tray and he gobbled it up.

Mine eat it all. They're 11, 12 and 14.

On offer was a 3-bird roast (Turkey, duck,pheasant), 2 kinds of stuffing, pigs in blankets, carrots, peas, parsnip, broccoli, red cabbage, sprouts (with bacon& pine nuts), bread sauce (all mine!), roasties, croquettes, mash (the excellent mash my dd1 does) and gravy. We all eat 3-4 types of the veg, and make sure we make everyone's favourite!! - that's why so many!

Oh and dd2 (11) is being pescatarian, so she had the trimmings and lobster. Which she cracked open with her new lobster crackers which she got in her stocking.

Mine have always eaten the parts they like. Oldest son (who didn't have dinner at mine) ,used to love roast dinners, so ate it all. Middle son has food issues, so struggles a bit with roast dinners. He ate the parts he likes, and I don't pressurize him. My youngest likes the chicken, stuffing and vegetables, won't eat potatoes (apart from chips, which weren't on the menu). I don't eat the full roast dinner either.
One traditional thing that no one in our house likes is the pigs in blankets, so I don't buy them. Apart from that, I just put whatever each person wants to eat on their plate. There's no issue, just because it's christmas dinner.

I just put out what my DS likes.

Gammon, roast potatoes, mash potatoes, carrots, peas, sweet corn, mini sausage and Yorkshire pudding. He hates sprouts, cauli and broccoli, so I don't bother putting them on his plate.

My Nephew will eat every kind of veg - as long as he gets to put ketchup on it! Hence why he doesn't come to my house for dinner. I'm not going to all the effort of making a lovely cooked dinner for it to be smothered in ketchup.

My 2 DCs have always eaten what you call a traditional meat & 2 veg dinner.

And on Xmas day, I just put everything out in serving bowls/plates for people to help themselves, and the DCs certainly take a good variety of food, so I'm not bothered exactly what they eat.

I don't do turkey, however. Not many in the family like that. It's usually a nice joint of beef, and maybe a good chicken as well, depending on numbers eating.

Mine are the prawn cocktail (!) and are all the turkey dinner including Brussels sprouts. They turned their noses up at Xmas pudding and had cheese and crackers instead.

My mum cooked though and she is a fab cook and they always eat what she gives them. They are more fussy when it comes to my food I am a dreadful cook

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ATE not are FFS

Ours do but they don't like sprouts or stuffing, they will have broccoli and carrots bit not much else in the way of veg, I usually make sure I do a few peas and sweetcorn also for them.

They love turkey and will have turkey soup today, Turkey sandwiches tonight then turkey, mash and beans tomorrow

Ours always have, but they have always eaten a roast dinner. Sprouts are my two's favourite vegetable.

When they were little they weren't allowed chocolate, sweets or biscuits before lunch though. Now they can do what they like because they're bigger than me I know they will still eat it.

Two fussy DCs aged 12 and 10. They had a plate of plain pasta for Xmas dinner, one had grated cheese on top, one just plain ( no sauce). It is their favourite and was their choice.
We all had traditional dinner.
Smiles and full tummies with no stress/ arguments all round.

DS ate everything but the turkey! Not too unusual for him though. He loved the Christmas pudding.

Forgot to say, he's 2.

Dd eats it but mil would say she doesn't do a good job as she doesn't finish it. She eats until she is full which I am proud of

My 5 year old had a yorkshire pudding and a spoonful of stuffing and she left half of that :/

The other four ate a fair bit.