How do I make noodles nice for my dd?!

[peggotty]

My extremely fussy dd (nearly 3) has actually requested noodles for her tea. She has never had them before. How the hell do I make her something vaguely nutritious but tasty that she will eat it, therefore hopefully extending her extremely limited range of things that she'll eat. She eats no veg apart from sweetcorn - I suggested to her that I give her noodles with chicken and sweetcorn (sounds like a pot noodle!) but she says she doesn't want chicken, just sweetcorn. The noodles I have are the straight to wok variety - could I just do them with sweetcorn and a bit of chicken stock? Would tuna added to them just be discgusting..? Please help me make a success of this and not consign YET ANOTHER food to the huge list of things she doesn't eat!!

I cook them in a bit of sesame oil to add more flavour.
if you want to be daring you could chuck in a tiny bit of soy sauce and honey, the slight sweetness may go down well

I do noodles (boiled) with corn or peas and tinned tuna with a dash of soya sauce for ds and he loves it

Aaargh, no sesame oil - olive oil ok? Have got soy sauce and honey though. Should I just leave out the tuna - she does love tuna but not sure it will go in noodles ...

olive oil is ok, vegetable oil better as it will cook to a higher temp I seem to recall. but could be making that up lol.

could always offer her a bit of tuna on the side

might not go with the honey, but ds likes it on the tuna (he'll eat pretty much anything though) - maybe introduce the tuna another time !

I meant likes the noodles/tuna/soy combination...

Thanks fingerwoman will give it a try - and MaryAnn sounds like tuna in them could be ok. Hope she likes it!

i would cut little bits of carrot and mangetouts and baby sweetcorn.toss through the noodles.perhaps use a have a tiny bit of ham bacon or chicken with it.
ps sorry if she doesn'tlike veg!

nooo . Noodles would be horrible with tuna.

My Dd loves it with soy sauce and sesame oil. Sprinkling on her own soy sauce is the thing she likes.

Don't be too clever. Stir fry the noodles in veg oil. serve with sweetcorn on the side and a bottle of soy sauce to self serve.

Only thing I;d think about adding is an egg when I fry.

heck, be brave and do a small bit of chicken and veg anyway; she can leave 'em, but you never know. Just tell her: this is what comes with noodles.

Marinate a bit of pork/chicken in soya sauce and lemon for as long as you have, then panfry it for a few minutes, having boiled the noodles with sugar snaps/beans or whatever. add the marinade to the pork/chicken at the end and boil it up, and then mix it all up with noodles etc. Agree that the self-annointing with soya sauce will prob go down well.

if the noodles are boiled it's like having tuna and rice,which ds also likes - honestly,it is nice !

I marinate chicken in soy sauce mixed with honey. Then cook it in the oven, and when cooked I shred it and add it in - with all the sweet juices to the cooked noodles. The honey is what does it .

VERY delicious. Plus, if you make the noodle eating fun (not difficult), then she'll be less worried about the content.

I always do noodles with a mixture of soy sauce and tomato ketchup, which always go down well, almost verging on a very basic sweet and sour sauce (i did say almost!!) with carrots and a few peas and sweetcorn.
A favourite with my DS1 who is a bit funny with chicken is to marinate cubes of it in soy sauce and tomato ketchup (again!) and then thread them on a skewer and griddle them, I think the novelty factor of the skewer helps and it goes well with noodles, I also do it to go with egg fried rice.

Well, partial success - (unfortunately all the subsequent messages and suggestions came after I'd made the noodles!) I just made them with sweetcorn and I did put tuna in them, she really will only eat very plain things - I tasted it myself and did taste quite nice - honest! She wasn't going to touch it after clamouring for noodles since yesterday. She seems very put off by the look of things or what she thinks the texture is going to be like iykwim. I know it Against The Law in persuading your child to try new things, but I had to threaten her with no telly after tea before she would even try it - and then she said she like it!! Some of these other suggestions sound delicious, I am going to try them for me and dh never mind her! Thanks everyone.

Don't muddle them up with anything. I am with fingerwoman with the soy and honey, it is tasty but simple. Serve the other elements of the meal seperately to the noodles, not mixed in - 3 year olds tend to HATE muddly food.

Colditz, yes the muddly food thing is so true. She ate a bit of it, but it all being mixed up it's what put her off I think - the seperate elements are all things that she likes so in theory she should eat them together but oh no! Made her spag bol yesterday after her not eating it for months and ballsed that up as well by mixing the sauce into the spaghetti, which was then 'dirty' spaghetti according to her. Grrr so bloody frustrating!!

Haven't read the thread in full, just the OP, so don't know if this is similar to what anyone's suggested, but I do my ds "Chinese noodles". I stir fry a selection of chopped up veg - usually about three or four types (carrots, onions, red peppers, courgettes, leeks, spring onions, mange tout, green beans, baby sweetcorn, red cabbage all work well). Add some chopped up meat (beef or chicken usually). I add a sprinkling of Chinese five spice (it's not hot spicy, just tasty spicy). When it's cooked, I add a splash of soy sauce and some honey. Then I add the cooked noodles.

If I chop it up, then ds just eats it with a spoon and in goes the meat and the veg the same time as the noodles and it's no problem.

Sorry - I've now read the full post and you've made it already! Ignore me!

THat's ok nonickname. I would weep with joy if she ate any of those vegetables!! Nope, just sweetcorn. That's it.

I'm going to try that for myself though, sounds delicious.

I sometimes use Straight to Wok noodles - I thought they were pretty basic actually.

Anyway, I finely slice some pork or beef steak, fry it in a little veg oil, a tiny drop of sesame oil, onion, garlic and soya sauce and serve with noodles - mixed in for dd and sometimes separate for ds (I have a fussy eater too so I sympathise!)

YOu can do the same and serve with rice.

ALso for lunch they like the packet noodles - I think I use Blue Dragon - but don't use all the soup base.

The only veg my DS eats are sweetcorn, baby corn and corn on the cob and he also went through a noodle phase. never managed to sneak any other veg in though, even bean sprouts i thought would blend in, but they were carefully placed to the side. do you have any idea where the love of corn comes from, i've often wondered where i went wrong?

One of DD's favourite meals is "peas and rice".

Its leftover boiled rice, and we stir fry sliced peppers, onion, bacon/ham, peas, sweetcorn, spring onion with some soy sauce. We chuck in the left over rice, and break an egg into it and mix it all up. She loves it. She is always asking for it. DS quite likes it too and he is fussy and also hates muddly food.

DD1, now 12, is still quite fussy about anything that she thinks looks like "casserole" but there are two exceptions to this. One is Thai curry and rice. The other is this:

Rice noodles (really easy; you just soak them in boiling water)
Soy beans (frozen, just bung in the microwave)
Soy sauce and a bit of sesame oil plus a few chilli flakes
Sliced up omelette or some cashews or some tofu.

She would eat this every day if I'd let her and now makes it herself if we are having something like chilli, which she won't eat.