I know I've done this thread before but I have to say it again......I AM SICK TO F**KING DEATH OF MY KIDS NOT EATING THE DINNER I SERVE.

[LadyTophamHatt]

There.

said it.

Ds1 ate quite well but my bin now has at least 2 dinners worth of food in.

If I serve up shite they'll eat it but I won't do it.....they can starve before I give in.

Ungrateful little f*ckers!!!

in our house veg not normally a prob. but a lump of meat (pref. chicken) and steamed veg bloody boring

tried the veg in a tomato sauce. wouldn't touch it. mine not easily fooled, sigh

do they eat shepherds pie? if they do, then grate as many carrots as you can possible get away with into the mince.

Just thought I would add that at the nursery my boys attend, the nursery nurses say that the one meal that all the children will always eat is chicken curry!

Oh yes. And I used to be so smug that my ds's weren't fussy! ds1 has now got a serious aversion to the unfamiliar and anything with 'bits' in it. Its so tiresome. He will arrive at the table, look at what's for dinner and collapse in a fit of tears saying 'I don't like that', even if I know perfectly well he does. After about 30-40 minutes it usually all goes, especially if he wants pudding....but why oh why do we have to have the struggle?

I agree that this is the worst part of parenting. It starts on the way home from school,"What are we having for dinner?" I tell them. "I don't like that". Even though they liked it last week. Then when I'm cooking the meal they stand by the kitchen door, constantly asking when will it be ready. Then when its on their plates they poke about and tell me what they are or aren't going to eat. I'm fed up with all the discussion.

I tell them to either eat it or leave it but if they don't eat enough there will be no pudding. Then they ask what is for pudding when its always fruit or yoghurt. I feel like they're expecting me to pull out a restaurant style menu with a dozen puddings on it!

Its definitely a power game. If we go somewhere else they are perfectly capable of sitting and eating, just getting on with it. On a couple of occasions I have put my meal on a tray and left them to it with DH.

Yes, I sometimes just hate mealtimes. have devides new strategy of serving up at least one thing they like, and others I know they've eaten in the past. When they start the old 'but you know I don't like...' I sing REALLY LOUDLY until they start eating it. Usually silly song, everyone laughs, and kids normally eat all their tea. Just to stop me singing!!!

I sometimes resort to giving them their tea late so they are REALLY hungry.
Drives me mad.

Ds1 and ds2 say dolefully, "Mammy, I'm full." accompanied by a face like the guy in the restaurant in "The Meaning of Life"
Then, half an hour after everything's been cleared away, I catch ds2 in the kitchen having a bowl of Rice Krispies!

ds1 comes home for lunch today and asks in a really fed up voice. " Mummy, do I dare ask what's for lunch today?". It's a pain in the arse having to think up lunch ând^dinner - 14 times a week.

Aubina my children are exactly like yours its untrue!!!! They expect a pudding every single night and so does DP come to think of it. I don't have them which is hard but I am trying to diet.

They moan that they are starving as soon as they get in from school, I usually let them have a little bar of chocolate when they come out of school as they are so hungry and then thats it until dinner. They whine and moan constantly until its put on the table and then eat three bloody mouthfuls (and thats on a good day)

Both of them are so well built and robust though so I know they must be getting goodness somehow.

Me too!

I am sick of it. At 23 months I can't even bloody reason / bribe him. He then wakes t night all the bloody time screaming for milk because he's hungry.

What is particuly goading is that he's quite happy with the crap given at nursery and is obviously not wasting away. He will quite happily go a whole weekend with nothing but bread and maybe a couple of mouthfuls of cereal.

He plays with food I give him then hands it back to me 'inisht, oodin' (finished, pudding) and will drop it on the floor if I don't remove it from his sight that very second. I have tried everything.

don't give puddings then, ever. then they'll stop asking. doesn't get any better. worse. mine used to eat lovely kidney bean veg. moussaka as a nipper. a bloody tin of baked beans would send him over the edge these days. I bet if I shoved a fruit shoot & sausage roll at them he'd be made up

I don't - it's the bloody nusery!

He used to be really good and would try anything. He is now just geting fussier and fussier.

Its a power trip for them. Develop nonchalence.

have you treid amaking up a list together of what they will eat lth?
mine have recently moved on to REAL chicken(w ell i was ds1 really) adn will eat stir fry etc and gouijons

Cod,that is outrageous pandering.
Puts all the power in their hands.

agree with moondog's first post on this thread!

(I know! I know! )

Why thank you MT.

(Will you join the company that Jimjams and I are going to set up then??)

but cod, done that. our list was 3 items long, maybe 4. certainly no further forward.

How do they manage onprogrammes like honey I'm killing the kids. Ok they have tears at 1st but after 3 weeks they've swapped a diet 100% fat sugar and salt for fennel bake with courgette ribbons.

Mine have been brought up on mostly healthy food (treats allowed) I don't offer alternatives/pander to them but they're still bloody fussy. 1'd be ok but the combined fussiness of 3 is a nightmare.

I'm gonna sell 2 on the internet this weekend. Might get enough to cover the cost of the camera they just lost. grrr. Problem is, which 2?

You'll get the most for the cutest.

good point. but cutest also = loudest here.

last night we had:

mackerel & feta salad with potatoes and salad, bread on table

dd1 will not eat mackerel so she just had feta, potatoes and the bits of salad I know she will eat put on her plate (ie red peppers!)

dd2 didn't eat anything as she is poorly and looked all folorn

I think, and hope and pray, that by seeing the food she will at some point try it. Hasn't worked with brocolli for 18 months however but hey ho.

We just make whatever we want to make and make sure that there is at least something on there that she will eat, so she sits at the table and sees us eating it.

For sunday roast at MIL, she will have a plate of roast chicken and a potato, whilst the rest of us took in to everything.

tuck in

I agree it is a major pita though

dd2 is so far fab - she is 2 and a bit - but I am awaiting her fussy stage

dd1 used to be v good but would quite happily live on cheese sandwiches

My DD has been going through the same phase. I have noticed however that she is ravenous after playschool and not too hungry at teatime. So, for the first time yesterday I swapped meals around and made her a cooked meal with loads of veg etc... at lunchtime and a small lunch-time sized meal for tea. It worked, she wolfed down the hot meal and wasn't nagging me for crap afterwards and ate all her sandwiches and fruit at tea-time.

Why didn't I think it before

FB x

My lot will eat ANY flavour crisps, the stronger tasting the better, but will not eat real food with the same flavour Why why why?