to give my kids stir-fry for tea?

[AradiasDaemon]

They think IABVU! They are 19 months, 4.5 and 14. It's a perfectly nice one, with egg noodles, sweet chilli sauce stuff and veg they quite like (baby sweetcorn and carrots etc). They have refused to even so much as touch it. Not a morsel has passed their lips. I spent 5 whole minutes slaving (not shaving autocorrect wtf!) over a hot wok to make that.

AIBU to give up and give them toast. Or Nutella on toast. Or not let them have anything till they have at least attempted to eat it.

Tbf we haven't had it ever in a while but still...

Pffft!

I was about to say about sweet chilli is a dipping sauce too.

Also don't understand 'eat it or go without' adults are allowed to choose what they do/don't want to eat all the time why shouldn't kids? Within reason I mean (dd would love on hoagies and nutella toast).

But I think considering their likes and dislikes and with older ones discussion is fair enough. Dd usually gets a choice of 2/3 evening meals depending what (if ) I feel like cooking.

Also I don't know many toddlers/pre-schoolers that like spicy food. Also if you've not cooked it for a while is it nice?

Sweet chilli?

No thanks!

Have you got some spare fish fingers, chips and beans on hand so they don't starve??

I also always keep 1 or 2 of those pasta ravioli things you cook in minutes with bolognese, cheese sauces inside etc in the freezer.

The 14 year old I'm staggered he/she won't touch it, the younger ones I can sort of see why I grew up in 70s where a Chinese meal then was truly exotic let alone pizza etc..."

I do give mine a choice. We have a meal planner, which they help with, so they can choose what they want from what's left for this week. I have had them refuse to eat once I've cooked what was decided, and that is when nothing extra is offered. Except maybe a piece of fruit.

No, they eat what they have or wait until breakfast for me. Apart from possibly for the 19 month old.

The only exception being if you've made something you already know they don't like.

Sweet chilli sauce is yuk. Since you've never given it to them before, I think they are entitled to say they don't like it and request something else.

I also prefer rice or glass noodles!

Do they really not like it?

You put veg that they quite like?

I'd make something else if they really don't like it.

My 4 year old is a fuss monkey so the rule is eat it or go hungry.

Mine love and have always loved "wiggly worms" for dinner. My stock sauce is vinegar, honey, soy sauce, garlic, ginger. I hate baby sweetcorn though.

Supernoodles is treat lunch of choice at the moment.

Given the lack of chicken would probably follow with toast and nutella for afters.

I do stir fry for my DC all the time. I do get prawn toast or spring rolls quite often as a treat with it. But yanbu - absolutely definitely no other dinner. If you think you'll suffer too much with the moaning then bread and butter but only one or two slices and water to drink. Am I tough - yep maybe but I am not a cafe. How will they learn the value of food and money if you just change it and feed them something else?

The first time I presented my DS with stir fry, it was greeted with the immortal words "But I don't like stir and I don't like fry!!!" He loves it now though!

Just noddles and carrots would work.

Sweet chillI and prawns? Nah.

SuperFlyHigh Really! How would they starve in about 12 hours? Maybe check up the definition of starve in the dictionary?

spiderlight haha. That's cute.

Yanbu

Mine are already roaming around with mutinous faces as they've realised I'm cooking corn beef hash.

i think kids of today are spoilt. so much variety and yet they will still complain. When i was a kid my ethnic food rice and curry everyday 6 days a week, sometimes chappatis, fried masala fish, spicy side dishes, save sunday home made fish and chips in front of the tv with the Ateam, nightrider and blind date tis the life lol

We never thought our food was boring but perhaps it was because we lived in an era where we didn't get a plethora of snacks. I can remember fruit but snacks no my stomach was always rumbling before meals so i was happy to eat whatever my mum served.

Mine would eat a stir fry, but not if it's made with sweet chilli dipping sauce.

How have you actually made it? Is it literally veg, noddles, chicken and sweet chilli sauce?

chilli prawns and garlic is a basic combination in many oriental dishes i luuuurve it.. Fresh thai chillies though no mild rocket chillies please.

chilly I was joking about starving....

But seriously I'd give them omelette, beans on toast etc if they refused the delicious stir fry. would make 14 year old Cook his himself! I always have store cupboard /freezer essentials to hand though.

SuperFlyHigh Sorry but you hit my pet peeve. I hate people using the word starve when they mean hungry as there are people in the world who will actually die tonight from starvation.

Ok chilly clam down I meant hungry!

I am an old fart. I cook it, that's what is on offer. You eat it or you don't.

I do know what they like and what they generally don't. I don't deliberately set out to cook things that they all hate, but if one does and the others love it, well it's their choice what they do.

I also, to the sounds of things to the horror of people on here, do veggie stir fry with just some cashew nuts for the big ones.

Mine really love stirfry made with peppered mackerel - sounds odd but if you combine it with a reasonably well-flavoured sauce (e.g. satay) it is lovely!

Mmm just given me a stir fry craving. Let's see how Dd 19 months copes. Expect it'll be DH that has the problem!

I think it sounds great. We often had stir fry as kids and loved it. Eat it a lot now although my partner's is nicer than mine. His is more like pad thai.