Other people's kids and their farkin' fussy ways

[Twiglett]

give me strength

whats happenend?

meatballs and/or chicken, mashed potato, carrots, green beans, red cabbage

...

ate the meatballs and a carrot

now eating a sandwich

didn't expect them to eat the cabbage to be fair

but everything else is pretty standard isn't it

and no ds doesn't particularly like mash but he does eat it when pushed

DS's friend only eats sausages, nothing else. Sausages and tomato ketchup. Give me strength.

I would eat the last 3

don't ask me for dinner

I try to accommodate other kids' fussy ways (through gritted teeth and just tell myself how lucky I am mine aren't fussy) but it really gets me when the parents say "oh, they eat anything".... and then they don't.

funny thing is the pre-warned 'fussy eaters' tend to eat whatever I put in front of them much to their parents surprise

its the ones who aren't 'fussed' that can be the most picky

he's left all the crusts and about 2 inches of bread around the crusts from what I can see .. arrggghhhhhh

don't invite my lot round them. ds1 is a aspergers veggie and lives on pasta and ketchup. ds2 is vegan and dd2 can only eat mashed food cos she has cerebral palsy.
Hence we don't eat out

I was arranging a family christmas lunch in a restaurant and had this issue as apparantly children only eat chicken nuggets and one child only eats McDonalds chicken nuggets , looks like it will be a cheap get together for the Osyth's from now on!

Mine is one of those. I often think, at mealtimes, "God I wish you were someone else's, then I could blame them" after hearing

"Mummy I am too tired for peas"
"Mummy cabbage makes me need to go and do a wee until you take it away"
"I have lots of space on my plate now, can I have a biscuit?" (meal has been compacted into one side)
"Mummy I only like chicken that doesn't have brown bits on"
"Mummy there is green in this gravy!!!!"
"Mummy, what are the red lumps? I don't like red lumps"
"I don't like onions"
"I only eat potatoes that don't have any skin on and are round"

I don't know where he gets these bizarre food rules. I am NOT a panderer. He never has to eat but if he doesn't give his dinner a good go, he gets it back for supper.

do you loom over them so they're so scared they have to eat it

Dd1's friend looked through fridge, freezer and cupboard and declared the only thing he could eat was beans on toast. So dished it up and he only ate the toast because "they were the wrong sort of beans". Never invited back

funnily enough they're on a picnic rug in front of space jam

which is most unusual in this house but symptomatic of the hordes of people who've been swarming through the house since 8.20 this morning

i think some children get shy eating with a different family.

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A little friend of my sisters would only eat marmite sandwiches. Shes in her 20s now but its the only thing anyone in the family remembers about her.

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My son eats about 3 dinner options. Refuses anything else. he is not quite 3, but feel sorry for the poor mums of his friends when he starts going round for tea . I was a fairly fussy eater as a child, but we had a good friend as kids who only ate chips and toast and biscuits. seriously. that was all. My mum actually loved having her round for tea. She'd whack the McCain's in the oven and go happily about her business

now I didn't tell them it was cabbage

it's purple veg

and purple is the colour of the year it appears .. at least amongst 6 year old boys