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AIBU?

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Original poster

to think that when you say " a plain cheese and tomato pizza for fussy kids"

163 replies

DanDruff · 26/11/2009 11:08

you mean not one with REAL tomatoes and green stuff on it?

arf i know i ABU really - but if you knew the kid was fussy would you go green?

OP posts:
meltedchocolate · 26/11/2009 11:11

pick it off?

Original poster
DanDruff · 26/11/2009 11:11

haha we coped.
i was just at it

OP posts:
skihorse · 26/11/2009 11:15

YABU Which type of tomatoes are not real?

meltedchocolate · 26/11/2009 11:15

You dont have enough to worry about in your life.......

dilemma456 · 26/11/2009 11:30

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IdrisTheDragon · 26/11/2009 11:32

Were you expecting ie tinned tomatoes and along came one with tomatoes with skins on and more recognisable as a tomato?

juneybean · 26/11/2009 11:32

I'd be peed off if I ordered a cheese and tomato pizza and it came with real tomatoes on it, I hate real tomotoes but I can cope with tomato sauce etc.

kreecherlivesupstairs · 26/11/2009 11:38

YANBU in the slightest. Having a very fussy dd and knowing that pizza is a pretty safe bet, I would have been fuming it that had arrived.
I have a very clear memory of picking bits of parsley off a plate of plain boiled pasta that I'd ordered for her and she refused to eat.

ImSoNotTelling · 26/11/2009 11:38

What was the green?

Original poster
DanDruff · 26/11/2009 12:11

i dunno
herbs i think
iw asnt paying for it
it was at a house

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Kathyis12feethighandbites · 26/11/2009 12:15

YABU about the real tomatoes, not about the green stuff.

skihorse · 26/11/2009 12:16

Get a fucking grip. I hope this helps.

hobbgoblin · 26/11/2009 12:19

anyone with DC surely knows that tomato pizza base that is 'fussy child' proof needs not to contain herbs, or lumps or be in any way garlicky, oniony or be anything but red liquid.

As for the cheese, no mozarella, or other slimy stuff just grated cheddar, preferably one colour only and not too 'browned'.

bronze · 26/11/2009 12:19

Am so lost..
is a cheese and tomato pizza not supposed to have cheese and tomatos on it then?
Ask for a pizza base next time

bibbitybobbityhat · 26/11/2009 12:19

Pesto?

So you were at a house and you were allowed to order what you fancied for the dc?

Am amazed your kids are fussy. Wouldn't have imagined you would allow it .

Morloth · 26/11/2009 12:22

If someone cooks something for DS, he eats it or goes hungry and he bloody well says "thank you".

Have managed to weed all the fussy kids out of DS's social circle (well at least to extent that I don't attempt to feed them/eat out with them).

PITA.

lucykate · 26/11/2009 12:48

was it a 'dr oetker' one?, their cheese & tom pizza has spinach on it i think.

hobbgoblin · 26/11/2009 12:49

i used to have the same approach as you morloth until it didn't work with my 3rd child and i also met a child who was tube fed as a baby due to gastric problems and who would starve himself of water and food until hospitalised. i am no longer smug about it but agree that in general the 'go without' rule works.

Morloth · 26/11/2009 12:53

Not smug, just not willing to cater to fussiness. Medical conditions are completely different obviously.

If an animal is willing to starve itself in the presence of abundance then there is definitely something wrong that needs professional help.

QuintessentialShadows · 26/11/2009 12:55

tsk tsk, you should have asked for cheese and ketchup pizza

Kathyis12feethighandbites · 26/11/2009 12:58

I am shocked that Hobbgoblin says that mozzarella is not allowed.

alwayslookingforanswers · 26/11/2009 12:58

"If an animal is willing to starve itself in the presence of abundance then there is definitely something wrong that needs professional help."

yes it's often called sheer bloody mindedness/stubbornness and no professinal help with sort it.

"oh yes don't give offer your 2yr old anything other than what you're eating - they won't let themselves starves"

want a frigging bet - 1 week of no food, and only a few sips of liquid a day I had to cave in to DS1. Otherwise it would have been "mother starves toddler to death in bid to make him eat"..........he's 9 now and will eat absolutely anything - but for that time we did relent and go back to feeding him the stuff that he would eat.

alwayslookingforanswers · 26/11/2009 13:01

Morloth so you don't cater to fussiness.

Gosh - I don't know any adult that you could invite round to yours then. As I don't know a single adult that doesn't genuinely dislike at least one or two things.

alwayslookingforanswers · 26/11/2009 13:02

and OP - when I order a cheese and tomato pizza I expect it to have CHEESE and TOMATO on it..

sandyballs · 26/11/2009 13:04

It doesn't bother me in the slightest if my Dd's miss a complete meal due to fussiness, their loss, they are not going to die, and I certainly wouldn't make a fuss in a restaurant or at someone elses house. Or indeed at home.

It always astounds me how many mums I know beg and cajole their kids into eating and get so stressed about it. The kids are usually big lumps as well, missing a dinner isn't going to hurt them, it might even do them good.