DD 7 doesn't like food that "tastes hot"

[BathshebaDarkstone]

She means chips, fish fingers, breaded fish, but apparently chicken nuggets are okay. This causes 2 problems: if I want to take them out locally for a treat it means Cafe Nero, who don't do proper main meals, and on Fridays at school she eats nothing as they always either have fish fingers or breaded fish with chips and baked beans. Does anyone else have experience of this and how do you deal with it?

I think its a good thing that your dd wont eat them as its crap food.

What about cottage pie, roast dinner etc, will she eat these as they are hot meals

She'll eat hot meals, just not the types of food I've mentioned. The problem is with Friday's school lunch (school lunches are compulsory at the DC's school), and also with not being able to take them anywhere locally for a treat apart from Cafe Nero, which really isn't enough for supper. We have McDonalds and the fish and chip shop.

tell school it's unfair she goes hungry just became she won't eat crap and demand to send a packed lunch in.

no way on this earth should not eating orange food be a problem. school are being unreasonable

Can she cut them all into pieces / mush them up with her knife and fork, before eating? This would change the texture which I assume must be what she does not alike.

Does the school do different options? A veggie option for example, which is different?

It isn't compulsory to take your kids out 'for a treat' to McDonalds, or anywhere else

And will she not eat a burger without chips?

The school has no alternatives at all to fish and chips? What do vegetarians eat?

It's not compulsory beagle but maybe the op would like to be able to feed her children out for the break. I used to take mine out to McD to get out of the house after I'd cleaned it.

capsium she very articulate and knows the difference between taste and texture, it's the taste she doesn't like. I'll mention to the school about packed lunches.

Send her in with a packed lunch on Fridays. Take her to restaurants that don't serve crap. There are millions of restaurants too choose from that offer proper food.

There's supposed to be a veggie curry as an alternative but she says there never is. I realise it's not compulsory to take my DC out for a treat, but I'd like to have the option.

I was more interested in whether anyone else had DC with these kinds of sensory issues around food and how they dealt with them.

I'm not sure what they do about allergies, they do have halal options available.

Of course you can still great her but just go to a decent restaurant that doesn't must sell breaded food. We treat our toddler ds to a meal our regularly and he doesn't have breaded food he normally has one of the normal startera or a half size main dish. Is it just fish fingers, breaded fish and chips she doesn't like?

I was that child. I wouldn't eat any of that breaded kids crap when I was a kid. Not even McDonald's.

It tastes minging!

Get her a sandwich/toastie or granola bar from cafe Nero.

All I'd eat from a fish & chip shop or McDonald's was the chips.

I do have sensory issues/hypersensitivity towards food now as an adult. I still prefer cold/cool/room temp food to hot food. I eat a good diet but other people see it as quite bland and monotonous. If your dd is similar just accept it. It's good she doesn't like processed shit!

Having food hypersensitivity can be part of asd, I do have some other traits too but if that's the only 'issue' she has leave it alone and don't fret about it.

School meals are compulsory, no packed lunches.

The problem with taking them out to eat is that we really do only have those 3 options here, and I don't think a sandwich is enough for supper.

Florin so far that seems to be all, we'll no doubt discover other things that she doesn't like as she tries them.

A sandwich is a lot more nuitritious than that breaded rubbish.

I think it's great that your dd recognises this is not good food. And McDonald's etc is not 'a treat' - I totally understand it gives you a break from cooking and its a cheap, easy way to feed kids, who usually love it, but I'd be encouraging dd to keep control over what she puts in her body.

On Fridays can you make sure she has a good cooked breakfast and give her a flapjack and piece of fruit for lunch?

DS (6) also has sensory issues around food, although not those you've mentioned (his favourite food is fish and chips!). He won't eat anything "wet" or mushy - stew, gravy, soup, chilli, curry, mashed potato, yoghurt, banana etc. Basically anything you could spoon feed a baby (he was BLW). It is limiting, but it has never limited where we can eat out, there is usually something. After much effort he has recently started eating jacket potatoes!!! Which is very handy indeed. His favourite place to go for tea after school is Morrison's!

OP I feel for your DD. As a child I just hated "kids food" and couldn't understand why others loved it! I would feel sick at the taste....I would have a serious word with school about the lack of the curry. Also at Nero's can't she have a toastie and a cookie or yogurt? That's enough imo for a light tea!

A Panini from Café Nero is fine for supper. DH and I sometimes have that for our evening meal. They are actually more filling and much more nutritious then meals from McDonalds.

Yes mumeeee I agree. Add some fruit or yogurt if the child isn't full OP>