Other people's kids and their farkin' fussy ways

[Twiglett]

give me strength

none of them ate the cabbage ..

did not expect them too

it's for the ham and mash for DH really .. just thought I'd try it

I'm not stoooooopid you know

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I was told this evening that ds and his playdate friend were going to open a restaurant and the pudding I served would be the best pudding on the menu - SMUG Emoticon

I think having meatballs and a carrot is ok. Did you offer a plateful of all those foodstuffs?

mine would eat the cabbage and not much else [contrary emoticon]

I'm just bitching

can't have sausage and chips every time we have a kids over .. they'd eat nothing else

in fact he is sitting in front of a plate of potato and cheese and cabbage right now and has only eaten the cabbage

LOL wheresmyhamster. DD has a friend whose mum totally admitted she has food issues, but only at other peoples hoses not at home (where she had a varied diet). So I check what does she like, "spaghetti bolegnese" so I make it but it isn't spaghetti bolegnese as it is dif to her mums. Next time we (her mum and I) decided to do an experiment, her mum made the spag bol and dropped it round to mine in the afternoon, I heated it up and served it, said child again refused it on the basis it wasn't like her mums! Combined with the fact she is terrified of cats and screams hysterically when she sees ours and makes me lock them in my bedroom we have decided to cease play dates with her for a while!

My standard meal for the dds' friends is pizza, dippers, salad, pasta and plenty of bread. Baked beans possibly. And lollies for afters. I used to do spag bol type things but a lot of effort if it's "not the right sauce" or "the meat's different here" so stopped that a few years ago.

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Gosh, I thought my boys were picky but they would eat meatballs and chicken, mash potatoes and one would eat the carrot and the other the green beans.

That said I wouldn't eat the red cabbage either unless it was pickled.

Some children get a bit distracted at being at somebody else's house and so don't eat much. Has the boy been to your house before?

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yes he's been here before

this was unexpected not planned .. sibling had emergency appendix op yesterday so I had him dropped off before school and have him now whilst parents deal with sibling in hospital

he had in fact left half the honey sandwich he asked for

may I swing him round by his ears?

Perhaps he is secretly worried about his brother.

Annoying though isn't.

Have been having dd's best friend round for tea once a week since September and as yet she has never liked what has been on offer.

OK we don't eat meat and she does, but still...

Have tried cheese on toast, pasta and pesto, pasta and peas, fishfingers and chips, make-your-own-pizza, tuna pitta bread, eggfried rice, and so on.

Every farking time she looks like she is going to weep when I put the plate in front of her. She won't even eat bread.

is there a trick to not having fussy eaters?

My MIL always says to me "I never made my kids eat anything they didn't want to eat..."

yes that's why i have a 42 yo husband who won't eat any vegetables (he does now though, i trained him much to his sisters' amusememt!)