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ds ate a 'cheese slice' processed junk sanwitch and I don't care.....

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Blandmum · 04/07/2006 12:21

.....in fact I am rather glad!

Ds (6) has never eaten any form of cheese before (unlike his sister who eats stilton, brie etc etc) and yesterday in school he ate a dairylea cheese sandwich (school meal)

Great! Now I can try to wean him onto the real stuff!

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TooTicky · 04/07/2006 12:30

Sometimes things happen in the oddest ways! My ds1 isn't all that keen on raw veg, refused to try any, even carrot. Then one day he came home from school demanding raw carrot sticks - thanks to the government fruit/veg scheme, he'd tried them in school.

misdee · 04/07/2006 12:32

tooticky, thats what is happenign here. before dd2 started school she would only eat oranges and no veg at all (believe me, i was very worried). now she eats carrots, apples, oranges, corn on the cob, cherries, grapes and has tried lots more but didnt like it. one week she tried kiwi fruit, watermelon, raspberries and strawberries.

LucyJones · 04/07/2006 12:32

nothing wrong with dairylea - my ds loves it

Iklboo · 04/07/2006 12:33

Have (shamefully) given DS a smear of laughing cow cheese on his finger food toast. (evil mummy emoticon)

waterfalls · 04/07/2006 12:34

Well, I was in a rush this morning (ds sports day etc) so I let the kids have sausage rolls for breakfast

clumsymum · 04/07/2006 12:47

What is wrong with laughing cow cheese?

Iklboo · 04/07/2006 12:48

He's only 8 months - not sure he really should have it, but I love it and I gave him a bit of my toast with some on.

moondog · 04/07/2006 12:49

Did my Fruit Shoot and Winnie pasta thread give you the courage ot come out??

clumsymum · 04/07/2006 12:52

Iklboo, I'm confused. I'm sure I was giving ds stuff like that by the time he was 8 months old, and scrambled egg, and croissants with jam, and by about 10 months I think he was having stuff like hungarian goulash.

He's a strapping nearly 7 now.

Iklboo · 04/07/2006 12:55

clumsymum - that's great. I thought I was being a bad mummy cos it's a chese triangle thing. Will definitely give it to him again cos he really enjoyed it. Might be wicked and give him a triangle to eat/play with just before bath time so he can get lovely & mucky

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Blandmum · 04/07/2006 12:56

That will be the one MD!

It happened yesterday.

I am really chuffed, as ds's food intake is so much better....better range...than it used to be.

He has always been good at eating veg, but very pickey about everything else

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clumsymum · 04/07/2006 12:59

BTW at nearly 7 he eats ANYTHING, curry, pasta, paella, all sorts of fish, all sorts of cheese, squid, all sorts of meat. We never order from a 'kids menu' for him in restaurants, cos he'd rather have proper food than Chicken Dinosaurs or whatever, And I'm sure it's becos he was weaned on a huge variety of adult food.

Iklboo · 04/07/2006 13:02

That's what we want to do with DS clumsymum. We blend up chicken, steak, fish, pork, lamb etc & all sorts of veg (more lumps now!) and he loves it. We'd rather he ate from the 'proper' menu at restaurants too when he's old enough

(although we give him the very occasional chip to suck to death at the minute - now that DOES make me evil mummy!)

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Blandmum · 04/07/2006 13:06

Clumsymum.

I have a dd like that, she eats everything. I weaned her, and my son ,in the exact same way, onto adult food. She eats everything, he has always had a limited diet. It is my experience that much of a childs food preferences is inherant, and nothing to do with how they were weaned. But obviously you are the expert.

Prehaps you are not away how condesending and patronising your posts read.

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clumsymum · 04/07/2006 13:07

BUT don't blend it all in to just a uniform mush. cut up chicken and stuff into tiny pieces rather than blending it, so he gets used to textures and individual flavours

clumsymum · 04/07/2006 13:09

Not intending to be patronising at all, just giving the benefit of my experience.

I'll shut up then shall I

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Blandmum · 04/07/2006 13:12

No, but if you are so patronising, expect to be 'called' on it.

I weaned mine the same way, I was also ''smug' when I had a good eater and was convinced that it was due to the way I weaned her. Then I weaned my son the same way and found that he was a totaly different child. So there is some of my 'experience' for you.

I didn't as for help, thanks, read my original post.

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waterfalls · 04/07/2006 13:13

My dts (2.5) will eat everything and anything, and always prefer the healthy option, but my ds(5) has a very very limited diet to the point where I think he make be food phobic, yet they were all weaned the same way, so I dont think it is necessaraly how they are weaned that determins how varied they eat when older.

clumsymum · 04/07/2006 13:15

I WASN'T BEING PATRONISING

hunkermunker · 04/07/2006 13:15

MB, I think you're being a bit harsh.

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Blandmum · 04/07/2006 13:15

totaly agree, waterfalls.

Mine were just the same.

I was so smug over dd who has always been a great eater.....will fight me for the last sprout, eats stinky cheese, olives, will eat all manner of seafood etc etc.

I was quite convinced it was my excellent weaning.

Then I got ds That took the wind out of my sails

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Blandmum · 04/07/2006 13:17

'BTW at nearly 7 he eats ANYTHING, curry, pasta, paella, all sorts of fish, all sorts of cheese, squid, all sorts of meat. We never order from a 'kids menu' for him in restaurants, cos he'd rather have proper food than Chicken Dinosaurs or whatever, And I'm sure it's becos he was weaned on a huge variety of adult food. '

Really? HM?

Perhaps I just have a hair up my arse today!

But silly me, if I'd only given him 'proper' food! [sigh emoticon needed]

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misdee · 04/07/2006 13:17

dd1 is very fussy with foods, dd2 is highly sensitive (gags vomits etc when eating).

now dd3 will eat anything. she eats currys, full roasts, all veg that i have presented her with she has eaten, she eats garlic ladden food (makes her smell wonderful lol), spicey foods etc.

all 3 weaned exactly the same way.

clumsymum · 04/07/2006 13:20

Thanks Hunkermunker.

I didn't mean to sound patronising at all. I don't think Iklboo found it so, surely.

I'm sorry MB that your son is a picky eater, I'm not criticising YOU in any way.

Feel free to have a go at me tho' I have no feelings at all, apparently

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Blandmum · 04/07/2006 13:25

fair enough, that was how I read it though.

Your inference seemed to be that children who are given 'proper' food are good eaters. Not the case in every child. as I found out to my cost It was he projective vomiting that stopped me pressing the issue I think.

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