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

[DanDruff]

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?

My sister was a fussy eater as a child (still is horrendous actually). My parents got used to ordering things in restaurants with the words "ALL Brown NOTHING green on it at all NOT EVEN PARSLEY"

I recently ordered for her in a pub, and this phrase came out of my mouth complete with slightly deaf mother's loud intonation - she was mortified, as apparently now she knows that the parsley can be moved to the side of the plate and won't get her.

I don't know what this adds to the conversation but just wanted to share.

YANBU OP BTW

if it was bring and share and it mattered that much why didn't you bring the pizza op?

Mrsboring - I love the thought of hunter-killer parsley leaping across the plate to get your dsis (when younger).

rights and wrongs of fussy childre who makes who eat what etc the op says they asked for a cheese and tomato pizza and then seemed peeved that thats what they got. Doubt the other person was a mindreader

In fairness, bronze, she did say in her first post that she did know she was being unreasonable.

true

i dont think i have made ds a fussy eater.
his brothers arent/have different thigns

kids are fussy - always have been

teh taramasolata culture annoys me

no idea what the taramasolta culture is but I already hate it

My kids will eat anything.

I, however, was a fussy little fucker who very nearly starved.

When I am feeding other children it is always something with skinny MacDonald's style oven chips, or pasta with the option of grated cheese.

I do not attempt to make them eat vegetation. I offer cucumber, carrot sticks, or apple slices.

TheFoosa I regularly find the taramasalata culture in my fridge - it's green and disgusting and you wish you hadn't just dunked a crisp in it and eaten it.

"kids are fussy - always have been"

No, they are not. I have a DS who will eat just about everything, I can count the things he doesn't like on the fingers of one hand.

He was weaned mainly on the food we were eating. Altho it would be chopped very tiny small, or mashed, it was never all pureed together into a brown mush. He would have seperate tastes and textures on his plate, just like grown-ups do.

I know that he never liked avocado (which all the experts advised was a wonderful first food) but now eats all sorts ofd things.

His favourite foods include Paella (especially the squid and mussels), good stilton cheese, good home-made chilli con carne, fajitas, beef carbonnade, all sorts of fish and school roast dinners. He will happily eat all manner of salads & vegetables (excluding broad beans).
Interestingly he doesn't particularly like crisps, nor ice-cream. He also prefers good dark chocolate to white, altho he does have a taste for horrible haribos.

Personally, I would be a bit annoyed if someone asked me to provide a Cheese & tomato pizza, and then couldn't eat it because it had tomato on it. If your child is really THAT fussy, don't take him anywhere to eat.

i disagree clumsymum - just cos you've had one child who does eat doesn't mean if you had another they'd be the same. also you can have a toddler who ate everything who goes off lots of things around the age of 5. i had one of those, who is gradually reverting to eating everything, but not without patience/perseverance on our part.

clumnsy

its not YOU

you didnt do it.Its a fluke

Clumsymum, just out of interest, how old is your DS, and do you have any other children?

This part is not aimed at you particularly, but I really detest this false morality about taste preferences. I am not a worse person because I hate mushrooms. My Mother is not morally superior because you can count the number of her food dislikes on one hand.

Rudeness as a guest is one thing, genuine likes/dislikes for certain food stuffs is quite another.

yes ds2 is of the taramsolata persuasion.
same weaning, same jeans

i wouldnt be too smug if I were you

well i agree with you clumsy, and i do believe that the way you fed him early on helped toward the way he is now, my dd is just the same, and funny enough she hates avocado too

if my dd tried to tell me she didn't like something she previously ate i would tell her to stop being silly because i know and she knows that she must like it because she ate it already. i really don't understand that

My ds is fussy and some of it is my fault BUT come on, people sometimes get good or bad eaters based on nothing other than nature. It's like sleep, ds didn't need to sleep when he was younger, just didn't. You could have tried everything but short of sedation it wouldn't have worked. I used to find it annoying when people said 'well MY dc eats everything / sleeps all night' now I just find it amusing because I know so many people who ahve had a 2nd / 3rd even 4th child who are fussy and then they know what it is like and don't feel so superior!

lol at jeans

i honestly don't feel superior because my child eats/sleeps well, i feel glad and slightly lucky because i know that a lot of it is down to the laid back attitude she's had since birth.
but i do know that my dss is a fussy eater but now he has learnt that daddy won't stand for it he will eat anything at our house now compared to hardly anything at his mothers so i think a lot some of it is to do with letting them eat whatever they want rather than they get what they are given

no it isnt
oh god i will have to go as this kind of thread fucks me right off

yeah me too

DanDruff, then why did you start it? Scratches head.

mine will only eat carluccio's pasta with squid ink and can tell the diference between waitrose and asda, blindfolded. I really think this is testament to my superior weaning skills and my dietary references to the 'zero tolerance' zeitgeist.