Every child loves pasta so....

[DaddyCool]

Annabelle Karmel my arse.

If I buy/borrow another book that tells me stupid crap like this, i'm going to lose it.

Every single book on parenting, food, sleep behaviour, I have bought or borrowed from the Library, is either just incorrect or common sense parenting disguised as a some sort of new revelation.

every child does not love pasta. my child won't eat it. every child does not love orange juice squirted onto everything...

and regarding the sleep books.... I'm sick of reading books from some sort of white-teethed cheesy american spouting simple common sense like it's some sort of revalation.

chapters include:

1. why sleep is important for your child (no shit sherlock)

2. why your child should get a balanced diet (ditto)

3. before bed routines (f**king common sense - relaxing atmosphere, bath, story... FFS who doesn't know that!!)

i'm really getting pissed off

daddycool, I had another non pasta eater, so I can sympathise. In fact, her diet was similar to your sons.

The only way we got her to try pasta was to call it something else.
So... one night we had spaghetti. Plain, no sauce.
Another night we had tagliatelle, again, no sauce.
We eventually graduated to lasagne.

But it was never referred to as pasta, as that was obviously the food of the devil.

And it is only almost a year later that it is called pasta.

my dd (2.ll) may as well be on atkins-loves veg/some fruit and meats/tuna/fish fingers,but not potato,not even chips.Will eat one type of pasta but only with one type of tomato sauce.Asks for ham sandwiches every day but hardly touches bread. She also will have porridge with a bit of syrup.she is skinny and its so frustrating.I just try to limit junk snacks and if she doesnt eat at meals just ignore it.Stopped puddings as she would just refuse to eat meal if she knew pudding available.As a one year old/early 2 yr old she was a brilliant eater!! Let me know if you find anything which helps.

Hi Daddycool
Parents of non-pasta-eaters unite! Only I have one who won't eat pasta, one who won't eat rice and one who won't eat potatoes. So that doesn't make mealtimes at all stressful, does it?!
Also - and please don't laugh too much ? I'm writing a book on parenting! Will promise to make it full of stuff about parenting being bloody hard work at times and there being no one-size-fits-all solution to every problem - especially pasta rejection. Oh, and not doing any recipes, either!

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my dd1 doedsn't eat pasta OR potatoes OR rice OR couscous
she eats bread though

Along the same lines, I think it's Nigella who claims that all children love smoked salmon. Again, WTF?

all children love smoked salmon?? rofl...

Actually DC your DS's diet sounds OK, what age is he? I think if he can eat chicken and fish unbreaded then he is fine, at least it means you can go out somewhere! He gets carbs, protein, and vits from the fruit.

DS was far worse than this up until he was 3.5yrs, and now at 4yrs is much better - largely due to eating with childminders' kids. In fact, his favourite tea at the moment is salmon with roast potatoes. Still hates veg though, and anything with tomato in it. I must have thrown away a ton of broccoli over the years. I also made a conscious decision to stop stocking nuggets and fishfingers, decided bits of chicken and fish were probably better.

If you want variety in fruit, have you tried cherries or blueberries? DS loves these. Also mango might be worth a try, given he seems to like juicy fruit?

my boy likes smoked salmon

he ate big chunks of pork chop last night which was good. no veg though. he eats huge amounts of meat. you'd think he was a neanderthal.

Pork chop is quite an achievement - its a tough one for them to chew

(didnt mean to be so flippant with my first post on here yesterday btw....)

Just keep putting it on the plate - and maybe he will try some at some point. Ds now eats broccoli - but only after he got to choose it at the veggie shop. Actually taking him to pick what he wants and chop it up himself has meant he will try anything (except cabbage).

He is a non pasta eater BTW, 5 strands of spagetti to date on 5 occassions.

harpsichordcarrier - it makes it difficult dosn't it! Until the spaghetti break through DD was the same. Will happily munch on dry bread, but not sandwiches. No rice, pototoes, pasta, etc., although we did get a roast parsnip down her ONCE! I do think it improves as they get older and start eating with other children/school. DD's fave meal is sausages broccolli & baked beans, which is a good balanced meal, catering to all the food groups. But EVERY day. Plus if we ever wanted to eat together, I would have to cook two meals! Unless we had the same every day too!

Daddycool ... I reckon your DS eats really healthily ... and it doesn't matter if it isn't varied .... ok, so some veggies might be good but really I think he is doing OK.
He is 3 I take it?
When DS was three there were basically 4 or 5 'meals' he would eat and so I cooked them in rotation ... it was healthy but not exciting.
As he got older he got more adventurous ... we used to take him out to cafes at the weekend, order a kid's meal and he would get curious about what we were eating and so he would try some and look very surprised that he liked it.
Now, at 6 he eats all sorts of things and likes trying new stuff.

On the other hand, [bloke on Fast Show accent]
This week, DD (2 next week) 'as bin moostly eatin' sausages and banaaaanas

Agree that Annabel Karmel is a PITA ... every couple of months or so I get the book out and flick through it thinking that I will cook something from it but after 5 minutes I get pissed off and chuck it back on the shelf on my way to the freezer to get the fish fingers out .... The same happens to effing susannah oliver (is that the name of the one whose book is called 'What to feed your baby and toddler'?)
I think I am going to burn them both ...

Oh ... and your DW is beating herself up about it because that is what her job is, as a mother, to worry and worry and worry ... it is in the small print ... haven't you read your parenting contract?

Dc's tea last night:
Pasta
Wheeties
Egg Custard
Yoghurt
Repeat ad nauseum......
Keep telling dp that he'll look like a bit of rigatonni (sp?) if he goes on like this...!
We sneak in peas and brocoli, sweetcorn and other bits...
Do find if we are eating it, he's more inclined to - usually off our plates!

DS not DC! Have no idea what DC had....

i had pork chops ... and i ate it all.

ds (who is 4 and not able to use the toddler excuse any more) likes cheesy mash. Great I though last night, I will sneak in a vegetable as recommended. I puree some carrot that the rest of us are eating, not much, just a table spoon full, and stir it into his mash. He can't taste it so he digs in and eats a few mouthfuls. Then projectile vomits it all over the table. Vegetables make me sick he announces.

I have stopped cooking him alterative meals since before christmas. He is happy to just go hungry rather than eat veg. He used to be quite a chunky child when he ate pizza every night but now his is skinny as a whippet - which is better but is about to go too far.

Ghosty put the books on Trade Me. Always a roaring trade in them as people get all keen, realise that feeding a child is similar to feeding themselves and flog them again.

My son doesnt like pasta but i did get him to eat my super noodles that i was eating for lunch which did come as a big shock. (him eating them not me!)

DS isn't keen on cheese unless it's melted so I put some grated cheese in his pasta once and told him it was "magic" and if he storred it around, it would "disappear" - he asks for "magic" cheese now.

Could also try the "magic cheese" routine on a baked potato? (In our house, baked potato is a potato boat, split in half, with a wooden skewer and paper "flag" in it. This is about the only thing I do to food - no arranging face shapes on plates!

stirred

here it is!

leftoverturkey- i once read a miriam stoppard parenting book and what a load of cack it was especially a comment about taking your older baby supermarket shopping, the advice was to walk down the middle of the aisle so they couldnt reach out and grab things WTF