So fellow lentil devourers - feeding Other Peoples Kids who only like crap... what do YOU do?

[Piffle]

ds is 12 his friend is here
According to his mother he likes beans and chips, the usual boy things no veges ta.
Today he announces he detests beans in actual fact
this leaves weetbix or egg in my house
Do I compromise my principles and buy some junk

No! Are you veggie?

Make Toad in the hole.

Just give him whatever you're having.

I'm not eating I am waiting for my lord to arrive home at 9pm to eat
My kids are eating friend rice with prawns and peas and corn and so forth
GRRRR

fried rice
Freudian slip [chortle]

I serve sausage and mash in these situations. Veggies an optional extra (except for my children!)

no not veggie just fresh wholesome food with lots of veggies

You had me worried there piffle, thought he'd irked you just a bit too much

Egg and chips? Always reminds me of Shirley Valentine when she fed the Great dane her dh's steak

No
Anyone who comes here,gets what we have.

Or nowt.

Just give him that - but with some slices of bread and butter on the side - surely he eats that? And give him some ketchup to put on it.

give him what your kids are having

if he refuses, ask him to just try it, if he tries it and doesn't like it, offer him a sandwich

if he doesn't try it then he's plain rude and I'd just tell him that doesn't happen in my house and he can sit there till everyone else has finished dinner

I am not even a beginner or trainnee level lentil-devourer, really, but DS was talking in horror about Turkey Twizzlers this morning. I asked him what he would do if he was offered one for tea at a friends house. He said 'I would say 'no thank you' and ask if I could have a piece of bread instead'.
I bet he would eat it. Or go 'yuk, my Mum says these are made fom xy and z'

No,don't offer him a bloody sandwich!
Don't even make him try it.
Give it to him,if he sneers, say 'Fine' brightly and carry on as you were.

Don't f*cking pander!!!!!

Oh,and by same token,if the children (or I) was offered a Turkey twizzler,cheese string and lunchable at someone else's house,then yes,I would eat it!!!!!!!

I think that's a bit hard on a child who is a guest in your house. I reckon you can meet them half way.

Balls to that

You're all heart!

I tend to offer bread and similar, or fruit, as alternatives, but I won't cook specifically for them.

I do try to cook something reasonably child friendly for guests, but most kids prefer their mum's cooking, anyway, so I wouldn't put too much energy into it.

My eldest child is very picky but though I have failed in getting him to try anything unfamiliar, he has at least been trained to say ''I'm just not very hungryy today, but thank you'' if he really feels he cannot eat what is offered at others' houses. (it's not ideal but surely preferably to screeching 'urrrrggghh! Not eating that! ???

Is piffle off to tesco?

Becyk, I would agree with if the child was say under 7 or 8, but at 12 I think it's time to act differently

He's a guest. Give him a choice, 'this is what we're having, but if not we've got eggs or weetabix'. It's not your place/job/whatever to redesign his eating habits.

I would try and serve adult guests something they might like to eat.

Although having said that, my sister was unbelievably fussy as a child, and only started eating properly when she started going to other people's houses for dinner. She would come home and say "I DO like runner beans/rice/something else she would never try at home".

I would try to find something a 5 or 6 year old will eat-we had a guest today who cheerfully ate the pasta we were all having but with a bit of butter instead of sauce. However, I think I would expect a 12 year old to eat what everyone else was eating for politeness sake. I probably wouldn't serve curry or anything like that - I'd do sausages and mash or a pie or lasagna but I would certainly not cook a different meal for anyone over 10!