Wtf do you feed your DC?!

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My kids, especially DS barely likes anything and I'm getting really fed up of cooking two or three different meals each evening now. And twice a day on weekends. DD is pretty good but not always. This week for example I've made pasta bake, spag bol and tonight DD fancied burgers. DS doesn't like burgers but he noticed there was bacon in the fridge and said he'd tried that before at his grandparents and liked it. So myself and DD had the burgers in rolls with chips and DS had a bacon roll with chips. However he decided he doesn't actually like this bacon so the dog had it and he ate the roll. He didn't like the pasta bake last night and neither did DD so it's pasta bake 4 times over 3 days for me atm. The only thing he likes that I make is spag bol. Otherwise, the only thing he eats is his 'usual' which is waffles, heinz spag bol and cucumber.

He's been better at trying things lately which I'm thrilled and keep giving him positivity on but he just doesn't like anything I give him and I'm so so fed up of making three different meals every single day and it means I can't make anything remotely nutritious or from scratch as I just can't be bothered once I've done everyone else's food (it's just me and the two DC).

So please give me ideas on kid friendly stuff to make. I don't want to hear 'tell them eat it or they won't get anything else' as this doesn't work as they won't eat what they don't like and I can't leave them go to bed hungry.

Thank you!

A chicken nugget or a frozen waffle is the same every single time.

But they should never think that is a "food".it shouldn't be an alternative.

I get the sensory sensitive that but they wouldn't know there was something to default to if they hadn't been given it!!!

Food is food, some foods are better for our bodies than others but they all have a nutritional value. You have no idea what its like when you have a child who won't eat, you offer everything including the foods you're sneering at. Try using a little more empathy and a little less judgement.

A blender is your friend. You can sneak all-sorts into pasta sauces and burgers/meatballs.

We always say DD is fussy but when I think about it, there is a lot she will eat. She is getting much better at trying new things now too. She likes:

Chicken tikka
Bolognese
Chilli
Tacos
Mince (browned with onions, add carrots and swede, stock cube and water and boil for half an hour or so, then I drain the water off, make some instant bisto and stir it in. Serve with mashed potatoes and veg and the next day make into cottage pie)
Chicken casserole made the same as above but with diced chicken. Also works with diced beef.
Chicken/turkey/beef dinner
Pasta and cheese with tomatoes and cucumber or mini pizza with tomatoes and cucumber is what I give her if we are having something she doesn't like
Sausages, chips and beans or with mashed potatoes veg and Yorkshire puddings and gravy
Baked potato
Homemade soup
Diet coke chicken but she picks the peppers out
Macaroni cheese

There's also a lot she used to eat but now won't, and we have to stick to the same brand/shop for certain things

Oh and meatballs

Food is food, some foods are better for our bodies than others but they all have a nutritional value. You have no idea what its like when you have a child who won't eat, you offer everything including the foods you're sneering at. Try using a little more empathy and a little less judgement

You miss the point. If they are nothing of what they had been fed from day for I can see you might try something like a bread animal shaped but just starting out by feeding children beige crap as a regular meal is just appalling.

I’ve been you making multiple meals. One day I’d had enough and just satarted making one meal. It took a day or two but they did start eating after a day when they realised nothing else was coming. It’s hard but it was the only long term solution in this house

Why do people always assume that fussy children were weaned on a diet of beige freezer food . Both my dc were weaned on mainly homemade healthy meals. Yet one (who is most likely on the autistic spectrum) is now 'fussy' and the other eats everything except roasted tomatoes. The fussy ones favourite meals include fish pie and kedgeree. Although he has a fondness for potato unicorns too

Why do people always assume that fussy children were weaned on a diet of beige freezer food

Because they don't understand what it's like having a fussy eater and think that their own DC not being fussy is somehow down to their superior parenting whereas our DC's fussy eating is down to our inferior parenting.

Basically, judgers gonna judge 🤷🏼‍♀️

Well said @Gancanny