FUSSY CHILD AND GIVING HIM A ROAST DINNER..

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We have DC friend over tonight and we are all having chicken pie, roast potatoes, peas, carrots and Yorkshire pudding with gravy,

The friend is incredibly fussy ( and I understand it's very difficult as my DC is fussy) however his mum has told me to give him a roast dinner just like everyone else to try and encourage him to try something.

How would you serve the meal with as little stress as possible? One potato? Or a small bit of potato? One carrot? One pea?? How about the pie?!

The friend apparently is very unlucky to try any of it but mum still wants me to serve it to him in a hope he will try!

I don't really want to overwhelm him with a large plate of food but It would be nice to say to his mum when he picks up that he has had something!

Sorry for this post I am such a worrier!

Any tips on how to support a child ( who isn't yours) who is incredibly fussy?

This isn't aimed at you OP but the 'carbon hating haters' I.e 'Carb police out already'

No child or adult needs pastry, potato, and batter all in one meal. Op is having a tough time and that's one thing, but to shame everyone that's gone 'hell that's a load of carbs' as if a nutritionist wouldn't say the same is just offensive.

Carb not carbon

OP you absolutely don't need to justify the meal you have chosen

‘Gotta say though thats a fuck load of carbs’
DSis .... is that you?? She can’t let anything pass without a negative, judgemental stamp either.

@KarriPotter

But it is though. Theres no need to be touchy. Its just a fact.

The OP didn't ask for nutritional advice though, so to come on and bitchplop your own opinion (a generic 'your' there) is fecking rude.

It's happening ALL the bloody time on here nowadays, it's irritating and I tend to follow a low carb diet!

I live carbs. Yum Yum. Meal sounds lovely.

Not your call to make though is it? It could be a rare treat or it could be a three nights a week thing. Point is that it’s fuck all to do with anyone else.

Well i mean you gotta admit...that's pastry, potato and baked batter...in a single meal! If you replaced the pastry with stuffing then that's a Christmas dinner, same difference and there's nowt wrong with that.
OP, I'd just plate it up, same as your child, but maybe ask if they want gravy before you pour, that would freak me out, I'm not keen on gravy.

Gosh, people don’t combust because they have several types of carbs at one meal .

Don't put gravy over it - for a fussy eater me you've just rendered everything inedible.

All the bits but dry so he can pick and choose. Gravy only if he asks for it and let him control how much and where it goes.

Age 40+ I can now almost cope with gravy but given the choice will only pour a miniscule blob on the plate. Don't like food that touches each other.

That dinner sounds yummy to me!

BLUESEA That IS the best meal in the world

Flippin heck the OP didn’t ask for an appraisal of the meal!! OP just serve him up a smaller portion and just don’t comment either way. He may eat it all, he may eat none. Whichever, he won’t starve or explode through overeating. Don’t worry.

Kids often eat what their parents say the won't so a bit of everything on the plate and no pressure to finish it. HTH

sounds like a fab tea to me OP. Wish I was coming to your house

I reckon just put some on his plate. No gravy - ask if he wants and and where he wants you to pour it. Are the yorkshire big enough to make a pile of peas (and carrots) in the middle and drown them in gravy?

Good luck and the meal sounds delicious.

Very nice of you op I must be very mean but can't imagine giving headspace to whether somebody else's kid likes the dinner I've made. There it is eat it or don't.

It’s 1 meal ffs out of a week, Hardly calls for the carb police to come out.

OP I’d either put in all on the table and do a help yourself everyone kind of thing or just serve a tad less than you give your dc and definitely don’t put gravy unless the child asks for it, a lot of fussy dc don’t like sauce/gravy

I'd put it in a baguette.

But that's just northern me.

(And I normally get the piss taken out of me on Reddit for saying 'hummus' )

Sounds like the best thing would be to put it in the middle of the table. I would have struggled when I was little, especially with the pie (lumps in wet). I also struggled with gravy a lot.

Do not put in serving dishes. Way overcomplicates things. Serve a bit of everything, no gravy. Put in jug. And don’t say a word to him. Just see if he eats. If not, remove when everyone else has finished. Serve dessert. He will eat when he is really hungry, I’m sure

It might be a good idea to let your DS serve himself first, then perhaps his friend will get some bravery from what your DC plates up? Let him follow and have his choice rather than have to go first, or simply be handed something? That could work...

Portion of everything on the plate, nothing touching anything else.

hope he tries some of it.

Good Luck.

Why do people feel the need for shitty comments like too many carbs, it's so flippin unhelpful.
We had steak pie, mash, carrots, peas and cauli cheese (left over from yesterdays lunch). Carb heavy but I really couldn't care less.

I'd do what others suggested (put in the middle) then it really doesn't matter if he has only carrots, potatoes and gravy if it comes to it (it won't kill him).