it astounds me how many of you/how many of your dhs dont eat veg

[nailpolish]

soemtimes i wonder how you can be healthy without fruit and veg
i love it
it amkes up about 50% of my diet, and dhs and my dds
i think its the most important food group

there are a millions ways to cook and eat it

tsk

we eat fish 2 or 3 times a week.

what do you have with the fish?

carbs and veg

But the thread is about adults not eating veg. Everyone knows that lots of children go through a more or less fussy phase. I really could not just eat meat and carbs for a meal. Tonight we having jacket potatoes and savoury mince (ie I made too much to fit in my shepherd's pie). The mince contains onions, garlic, celery, tomato puree, mushrooms and carrots. And I will do some brocolli and swiss chard (have tons of the stuff to get through) on the side.

I know bozza but nailpolish was saying they only eat meat 3 times a week for health reasons - we eat fish 3 times a week for same reason.

Oh I wasn't replying to your fish post ladylush (fish healthy but expensive) but a lot of posters have been posting about their children's eating habits. And we eat meat more than 3x a week but generally in small quantities and often cheap meat. I don't ever buy proper steak, for instance.

fish isnt a sbustitute for veg

so i thought you didnt like veg ladylush? im confused

actually, we dont eat a lot of meat because its expensive, health reasons is a second reason
fish is expensive too

No I said I previously didn't eat it.

I spend my waking hours trying to get fruit and veg into an unwilling stubborn 3yo. Whilst simultaneously prising raw potatoes and onions out of the hands of my voracious constantly grazing 18mo. I do not have time to worry (much) about what the rest of yous lot are eating.

As a family of vegetarians we do eat more than av amounts of veggies anyway. Too much cheese though

There will be plenty of time for me to worry about outside influences as my dc's start school [Quake]

Marthamoo - I don't know if you read my post but my DS1 (7 yo) is exactly the same as your DS - he ate all fruit until he was about 3 and then slowly just stopped eating it, bit by bit.

I have never met anybody else who has the same problem. Mostly people think he is being fussy and just needs to try things. It is different as he has tried it so there is no getting him to try again. Disguising it doesn't work either.

I was hoping my DS would grow out of it and see reason but obviously not if your DS is anything to go by. Don't really know what to do about it as I don't know why he stopped liking it in the first place.

Mentioning what the children eat is relevant in the sense that I could make a casserole full of veg, for example with very little meat but the children would barely touch it. The result is that it impacts on our diet too.

By CountessDracula on Thu 27-Sep-07 14:25:21
'yy but what veggie content in all those things?'

That is what DH had, not me! I always have veg with mine, normally something steamed or stirfried or just some frozen veg if I am feeling lazy

'How can you just eat lamb and potatoes it sounds horrid! '

I know! I give him his dull plate with it's sad little lamb slices and roasties (he doesn't like gravy either) and then DD and I have plates of the same plus roast carrots, peas (DD is obsessed with peas) broccoli/whatever else I can find with gravy poured over it!

It makes me sad that he won't even try but it is so ingrained in him that veg=gross he can't bring himself to.
Luckily he is not around at DD's teatime and I always am so I make sure I am next to her so she can see me eating and not him. She loves veg, in fact I have a problem getting meat in her sometimes.

Niecie, I still hope he might begin to like it again as he gets older.

He is almost phobic about fruit - ds2 teases him by waving an apple or a strawberry at him.

He won't buy into the argument that you can't dislike all fruit as fruit is very different - bananas are nothing like oranges for example. He just insists that he won't/can't eat any kind of fruit. I tried to persuade him to eat a slice of apple about a year ago - reasoning with him that he likes apple juice, which is what apple tastes like, and the texture is not unlike water chestnuts, which he likes. It was a battle to even get him to hold the piece of apple. I don't know where this came from - he happily ate all kinds of fruit as a baby and toddler and he's not fussy about anything else. Oh, I tell a lie - he doesn't (and never has) liked sweets. So that's good at least

Mine will eat most veg raw but isn't fussed on it cooked unless it's in sauces, spag bol etc. However I've started adding broccoli and carrots to his plate as well as his standard peas and he can't make a fuss as we eat with the children so he has to force it down. I make a point of saying 'well done, look children, daddy has eaten all his broccoli' and my kids give him a clap.

it amazes me hwo many of your dhs seem to be wankers tbh
not getting birthday presnets
never staying in so the mum can go out

Well I go out more than my dp, he buys Birthday presents allbeit with a nudge in the right direction but he buys them. I agree not doing these are signs of wankeriness but the fact he's fussy about his veg is more annoying than wanky I think.

Marthamoo - My DS1 is like that too. DS2 also teases him. He has, in the past, even retched at the sight of DS2 eating the flesh off a peach stone. And yet he used to wolf them down himself. If I could just understand what happened I might be happier but it makes no sense does it? Does something happen to their taste buds at that age? Sounds like there are a few grown men a bit like this about fruit and veg on this thread which is a bit of a worry as they may not grow out of it.

To be fair he always claims to like strawberries but if you try to give him even a slice he pulls faces like you are poisoning him and takes such tiny weeny nibbles so I don't bother any more.

Doesn't sound like your DS has sweet tooth though but unfortunately mine does.

It's weird. But somehow reassuring to know that ds1 is not alone in his weirdness