Fussy eaters (children)

[monkeybats]

What do your/will your fussy eaters eat for Xmas lunch???

Surely that depends on the individual child - why do you ask?

Pigs in blankets. One will have his with Yorkshire puddings and the other with roast potatoes.

Sausages and roast potatoes

Yorkshires
Meat
Roasties

Veg will put pushed off the plate 🙃

Garlic bread for a starter, mini turkey dinner, ice cream.

I'm happy for children to choose starter and pudding as long as they attempt a small turkey dinner!

My fussy eater ate most of Christmas dinner as long an none of it was touching.hes now a teen and will have gravy, so everything is "touched". He's always particularly liked bread sauce, I think he'd be happy if there was just bread sauce!

Followed by apple strudle. Which is "touching"

The meat, probably
The potatoes, possibly
The veg, unlikely

Whatever she wants. Likely to be some turkey, some veg and potato and no gravy, sauce or anything nasty like that 😁no stuffing or sausage meat of any kind.

Nuggets & chips….. in his dreams 🤣 Tbh he would have that most nights if he has the choice. He will very slowly attempt to eat a Christmas dinner bit will avoid the veg at all costs. He will prob eat a slice of chicken, a roast potato followed by 984 snacks !!

DS will eat the mashed potato without question.

He may eat zero or five Yorkshire puddings depending on if he likes them that day 🙄

The same applies to the lamb. Some days he'll eat it but other days he isn't too fussed.

Then he'll probably have a bowl of custard for dessert.

On his plate, he'll have everything including veg but we'll see how he gets on! He spent the first 3 years of his life constantly choking and gagging on food until he vomited it back up. When the doctors realised his tonsils were touching and that was the reason for his choking, and resulting food aversions, they removed them and he's doing tons better now with trying foods, but there's still plenty of textures we're trying to reintroduce slowly. This is his first Christmas dinner since the operation so I'm interested to see what he'll manage.

Chicken fingers, all the veg and mashed potato. Possibly roast potatoes. They are 5

Mine is generally unfussy, but he is fussy with a roast, he'll eat meat, gravy, Yorkshires, carrots, parsnips, broccoli, sprouts if shredded and sautéed (not steamed or boiled) but the massive heathen will NOT eat a roast potato! How on earth is he related to me. Little weirdo also loves mince pies 🤢

We have introduced Yorkshire pudding to the Christmas Dinner plate specifically for my fussy eater. She will also eat bread sauce and redcurrant jelly by the spoonful. She fills up on a selection box in the morning so she's not hungry. I've given up worrying about nutrition on Christmas Day.

She does love Christmas Pudding though, which must contain at least one of your 5-a-day.....

Pizza 😂 I gave up a few years ago trying to force him to eat something he doesn't like and wouldn't eat at any other time of the year. And pizza is his favourite so that's what he gets. Less stress for me to be honest and he gets his favourite dinner.

My DS has Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder, and the ONLY hot food he eats is McDonald's fries. We are under dietitian, CAMHS, psychiatrist etc etc
Our local McDonald's is closed on Christmas Day, so I'm assuming he will eat nothing

My youngest is having garlic bread (a round pizza style without cheese). That is what she wants so that's what she can have.

@alwaysscared could you buy the day before and 3 minutes or so in airfryer freshens them up - he may notice they are slightly different but maybe worth a try?

@alwaysscared we manage to reheat chips in the toaster within a toaster pocket

my ASD child with food anxiety issues will eat some slices of Quorn Roast, carrot batons and peas. he may have a potato depending on if there's one he feels safe with - there's a myriad of ways a potato can feel wrong so he doesn't eat them often. he's not technically vegetarian but the only chicken he eats is KFC boneless pieces, a whole bird carcass being carved up is difficult for him to be in the same building as. quorn is safer because it is reliable in each slice's shape and texture.

We have an air fryer and he has said he will try mccains fries in that, so we shall see
He also has ASD, SPD and PDA, so getting him to try/do anything different is extremely hard!

Nothing that has "Black bits on" whether anyone else can see them or not. Christmas pudding possibly, chocolate definitely, (chocolate never has black bits on).

Pigs in blankets. Probably a Yorkshire pudding. Cheese. Maybe corn on the cob. Def no gravy or sauces or condiments. Water. Mince pies.

I don't think not eating roast potatoes constitutes fussy eating. I'd implode with happiness if DS would eat some meat, a bit of veg and some gravy

@SleepingStandingUp it was light hearted, I don't actually think he's a heathen either

Mine will probably have some of the ham and pigs in blankets. I'll give him some turkey and a roast potato but he won't eat them. It actually makes me sad that he never enjoys Christmas lunch - the meal that I spend hours cooking for everyone, which is supposed to be (and really was for me when I was young) a real treat!

Sometimes I do him some potato waffles - depends how stretched for space I am in the oven. He's 13, btw!

I mean, maybe a thread about kids with complex eating issues wasn't the best place to talk about how great an eater your kid is... Bizarre stealth brag isn't it?