For my DS to eat.

[Freeandsinglewater]

I've just cooked a lovely and healthy meal, from scratch! And DS won't touch it. Yes, the bread is homemade.

He is 3.
The reason it's too, red.

A better meal would have been jacket potato with the prawn cocktail on and salad on the side. Bread for afterwards.

What is child food NoEscapeFromReality?

I have pretty much always fed mine what DH and I eat.

I think it looks great. I love prawns.

My 3 yo currently eats

Bananas
Strawberries
Raspberries
Yoghurt
Toast
Cheese
Beans
Naan Bread
Fish (as in battered)
and Prawn Crackers

That is it. Everything else is refused. And there is no pudding. She would actually starve herself she is so stubborn.

I am hoping it is a phase and if I don't make a fuss she will grow out of it.

I know a couple of 3/4 year olds who'd eat prawns or salad or seeds. Probably only one that would eat all of them.

DS would throw it at my head in outrage if I served that to him.

DD would pick out some bits and nibble but not really eat.

They're all different.

Pah, we regularly had prawn cocktail salad for dinner growing up - was one of my favourites after curry

I don't agree with 'childrens food'. No such thing IMO

adult food? really.

it's prawn cocktail and bread. perfectly fine fir adults and children alike.

and if you are lucky to have a child witg a good variety of things they will eat then you don't have to go for maxim.calorie intake all the time. a light meal of salad and bread and a few prawns will be just fine.

I thought kids could pretty much eat what ever adults could.

Also if someone has a better flat bread recipe, I'm more than willing to try it.

I cooked today..... I cooked up a Dominos pizza

He may be coming down with something. I forced 6 year old Dd to eat spaghetti bolognese which she normally loves, only for her to vomit it from her top bunk

Mine would have a couple of issues here

1. salad .... Just no

2. sauce. There is sauce on that plate. That's a no go here!

3. it's not pasta .... Pretty much her go to meal

I think it looks nice. First I thought it was broccoli which I didn't think would go but as it's lettuce then that would do it for me. The bread would have been cut up into 'fingers' for mine but they would eat this.

There's a sore throat bug doing the rounds at the moment, so many seem to have it.

I could offer up the kids' dinner for a critique because it's mostly on the floor. They think I don't know it's not accidental.

They can eat most of what an adult does, just many of them won't.

giles I don't give mine 'adult' food because they won't eat it. I'm not paying for prawns that won't get eaten when I can pay for a much cheaper bit of battered fish that will might.

I spend ages making lovely healthy from scratch turkey burgers the other week. Brioche bun, various help yourself salad items to "build"said burger (let's make it fun and interactive I naively thought).

My dustbin nearly 5 year old that eats huge portions of pretty much anything gave them a massive thumbs down.

Gutted I was.

They're unfathomable these offspring.

Billsykesdog don't hold back, say what you really mean.

It looks nice. 3 year old are capricious creatures

I think.you missed the point. I was responding to.a.pp.

if your kids don't eat prawns don't give them prawns but that doesn't make prawns adult food. Kids can have prawns

I don't know any three year old that would eat prawns. Jealous that so many here do, I love prawns. As for the bread, it looks fine to me. It's not supposed to be a big, fluffy loaf, so the twatty poster who insulted it should be suitably embarrassed.

First the portions too big, then there are not enough calories. Your getting slated for serving salad, but if there was nothing green on there you would be the worst mother ever. No one can win on MN when it comes to feeding children.

I dont think its a large portion my ds1 and 2 would eat that plus more... ds2 would eat the salad (not tomato/shellfish as he is allergic) with chicken and he eats home made bread everyday anyway

In fact I think ds1 is ravenous at the moment, after being so ill, 30 mins ago he had 2 sausages, 2 slices of bacon, half a tin of beans, 2 fried eggs, 2 hash browns, and a tattie scone, with 2 slices of toast... followed by a cake I made yesterday... he will come down in about 2 hours to say he is "starving"

he is a 10 year old athlete however with a metabolism disorder... but still not an unusual amount of food for him tbh.

Yes.do the people criticising not realise that to 3 year olds things are never right sometimes?

Op well done for going to so much effort,puts me to shame

Why are the portions too big? It's on those little melamine plates not dinner plates.

It looks lovely OP. DS1 would've ate it. DS2 would've had the bread, but he did change as he got older.

Looks delicious to me and my DC would like it - perhaps apart from the lettuce.

I agree that the portions aren't that big, as they are on small plates.

DS had bread and butter for dinner after turning down pasta, chicken and broccoli bake. He ate broccoli yesterday, pasta the day before. Today it was pronounced 'disgusting'. You win some, you lose some.

There's a 6 inch home made pizza going spare here, little monkey thinks he's getting a chocolate muffin.

I feed him a small bit of whatever we're having, got sick of making quality but kid friendly food to be rejected, sick of the beige stuff too so he can like it or lump it.

My three year old hardly ever eats any dinner at all! He tends to be hungrier in the morning and afternoon so that's when he eats. They have little tummies and all three of mine prefer to eat little and often. My son wouldnt eat the prawns and Marie rose sauce on top of the other food like that. I group the food together into piles seperately on one plate so he can eat what he does and doesn't like. Then if one thing they dont like is on there it hasn't "ruined" (in their eyes) everything else and if there is a drama about it you just scoop it off.

Tonight I just threw chicken breasts, veg, passata, garlic, onion, paprika and cayenne pepper in a oven dish and we had that with roast potato's and he surprisingly ate loads which I wasn't expecting. Total hit or miss! Last night we had a quick pasta and breaded chicken which I'd of thought he would like and he never touched it.

They grow out it. My six and eleven year old both eat dinner every night now with no mucking about.