Very Fussy Eater

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Any advice for a very fussy 12 yr old girl for a school trip. She won't eat cheese, egg, ham, or basically anything in a sandwich. She will eat, very healthy at times like full roast dinner including veg.

Cold sausages. Bean salad with rice or pasta. Griddled veg - aubergine, courgette, pepper. Tabouleh - couscous for carbs. Rice cakes. Nuts - walnuts and brazils for protein.

Dd16 has afrid and is very fussy but also only 2nd percentile. I give her what she will eat, it's not enough we compromise and will eat more before and after school. At the moment it's seeded bread and butter, carrot sticks, chicken breast on its own and certain crisps (plus occasionally she may take a cereal bar). I'm past is it healthy or not. What's important is getting calories down her. At home she'll eat a homecooked meal (about 6 dishes in total on rotation) so we compromise when not at home. Just go for what she'll eat to get the calories in and make sure its more balanced at home.

Do a salad in a pot and stick a freezer block in to keep cool. Tuna nicoise salad, bean salad, pasta salad. Greek salad with some grilled chicken, Cous cous salad.

Other than a roast, what else does she eat?

Bacon and egg wrap or muffin wrapped in foil and kept in a hot thermos
Crumbed chicken drumsticks and a salad
Hot pasta meal in a thermos. I have a wide mouthed one, specifically to keep food hot.

I had a non sandwich eater fusspot..very inconvenient! Sausages, pork pies, carrot sticks/pepper/cucumber and houmous, those salami balls, chicken drumstick or cold chicken, cold beef, pitta bread, oatbiscuits, twiglets, fruit, yoghurt. Fine for a trip?

I’m assuming this is a day trip? Would she eat buttered crackers? Tuna pasta salad? Crudités, breadsticks and either hummus, guacamole or cream cheese dip. Cold slices of fritata (egg so maybe not). Cold chicken skewers? Roasted chickpeas, banana bread, malt loaf. Basically if it’s a one off day trip, don’t worry too much about it being healthy or what you would consider a normal packed lunch, just concentrate on giving her things that she will at and not leave her hungry.

No, a 4 days away. She won’t eat any of that! Maybe crackers but not buttered. No dips no cold meat no cakes. It’s a nightmare. Her daily pack lunch is chocolate chip brioche, pepperami (ok that is cold meat) strawberries blueberries and a Kit Kat. Same thing every day.

she eats sausages, chips( of course) greens, steak(rare, go figure!) chicken curry but no bits in the sauce, pasta with tuna or plain pasta, won’t eat any tomato sauce with pasta any more, roasts (chicken and beef) pizza with pepperoni but no cheese, noodles with broccoli, she eats burgers now, but fairly plain, no cheese. Pancakes and Nutella, but Nutella is the devils food in school. Apples and bananas. That probably is everything she eats.

Oh- OP, I wrongly assumed you meant it was a single day trip with school!!!

Do the kids need take 4 days of food with them? Are they camping in tents or a venue of some sort? Can you speak to the school or venue to see what food they offer?

Pasta salad
Cold chicken goujons
Cold pizza slices
Filled pitta
Pitta strips with little tubs of hummus
Cocktail sausages
Chicken drumsticks

Do they have to take all their own food for four days op?

I’m not sure what your question is then. Are you looking for suggestions for things she could take with her? Where is she staying? What is the catering provision put in place by the school? Have you spoken to the school about her restricted diet? Most places catering for school trips are used to catering for allergies and different diets. If you speak to them in advance they may be able to help.

TBH having had to cater for a huge fusspot boy (and been fussy myself as a child) I sort of got fed up and assumed that if they were really hungry they would eat most things put in front of them eventually. Assuming no allergies. Having said that I don't think your daughter is actually so bad. I've known worse on the fusspot front. Just pack stuff that isn't going to horrify her texturewise..my son cannot bear sandwiches as he had a soggy one caused by a tomato many years ago and has never forgotten. Even now he's nearly adult.