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When your 6-7year olds waste their Sunday lunch and say they are hungry an hour later

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Nikki2ol6 · 18/12/2016 17:08

Do you..... let them have a snack before their next meal. Or make them wait for their next meal and say you should have ate your lunch

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Gowgirl · 19/12/2016 22:07

Everything giles said with bells on!

Believeitornot · 20/12/2016 17:59

perhaps Giles it is better to encourage your child to taste something instead of flatly refusing or getting in to some sort of battle about food.

I have one fussy eater and one not. The fussy one has made huge progress and will try stuff - this is regardless of whether or not she knows she will get something later (which she does if she's hungry).

And if I'm hungry and want a snack, I'll have one. Why not my dcs too?

Gileswithachainsaw · 20/12/2016 18:07

Why would they need to taste anything they have had dozens of times before.

There's no battle they either eat it or they don't. But I'm. Not running a cafe with multiple choices or multiple times and I'm. Not indulging nonsense.

No one dropped dead without snacks.

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Believeitornot · 20/12/2016 19:35

Because it's good to get them in the habit of trying.

Tastes change. I go off food as do my kids.

I'd rather not get into a massive battle of food and insist on reheating food just to demonstrate that I was in charge the dcs already know that.

Gileswithachainsaw · 20/12/2016 19:57

There's no battle. Eat it don't eat it.

Battles are far more likely when they think there's an alternative or that they can get snacks...

Make it clear there isn't and you're sorted. They just have to learn to take the consequences of they piss about

Gileswithachainsaw · 20/12/2016 20:13

But my kids would forget their own name before they forget the day I made them baked beans cos they didn't want to eat the carrots...

They can waste and reject whatever they sodding want when they paying for it and cooking it. Til then I serve dinner and they either eat it or take the hit on being hungry and having to wait

Mrscog · 21/12/2016 12:15

I'd have probably kept the dinner (assuming they normally like roasts) and offered to reheat it or they wait until tea. I might offer a piece of fruit too.

Believeitornot · 21/12/2016 15:17

Well that sounds a bit extreme. I'd rather get strict about other things than whether they ate a whole meal or not.

Mrscog · 21/12/2016 15:24

I wouldn't reheat something that they had said they didn't like but quite often my 5 year old isn't very hungry at a mealtime and I'll just reheat it for him later rather than let it waste. I fail to see how that's mean?

If it was rejected on taste and it was something he'd not really had before I would offer a small snack.

Gileswithachainsaw · 21/12/2016 15:27

Exactly mrs

I mean who cab afford to waste food like that anyway. A roast dinner I'd either just zap later or maybe make the chicken and stuffing into a sandwich fir tea.

Why throw away a whole dinner that's not been touched.

BobbieDog · 21/12/2016 15:34

My dd who is 4 is a sod for this. She wont eat dinner at say 1pm so i say right nothing now until tea which is 5pm. 2.30pm arrives and she starts complaining she is hungry so i offer her the food she originally had for dinner which she refuses again. Then at around 4pm she pesters for dinner and i end up making it much early that i wanted to and she looks at it, takes 5 mouthfuls and doesnt want it!!!

This really winds me up and she doesnt get anything then until breakfast the next day.

I think snacks between meals are a problem as she will eat breakfast and constantly ask for something else like crisps, cheese, cucumber etc which i give but then she starts messing about with her dinner and the problem continues!!

So now i ve stopped snacks and she eats alot better but i still have the rule of if you dont eat your meals then there is nothing until the next meal.

SausageD0g · 21/12/2016 15:39

Wow. My kids are fairly good at eating meals. But I'd offer cheese and crackers /fruit/carrot (all things they like) of hungry.

I'm happy for them to eat I'd hungry and want them to be able to eat to appetite rather than finish your plate/dinner before pudding/etc.

Id usually ask how hungry and how much people want so someone not too hungry woukdnt have had a bug portion in the first place.

Blossomdeary · 21/12/2016 15:41

They should wait.

Artandco · 21/12/2016 15:41

I would let them have something else. But mine generally do eat meals and don't snack daily, so if they didn't it usually means they are going down with an illness or our cooking was crap!

Believeitornot · 21/12/2016 16:10

It was the idea of reheating a roast which made me

I don't give my children massive portions because, funnily enough they don't tend to eat them. If there was an occasion when they didn't want their food then fine. I'm not going to go all out to make a point if they're hungry an hour later to reheat the meal. I wouldn't do it to myself.

I can tell when I'm hungry but I don't always judge my children's appetite that well. So why go overboard about it? Food is for fuel and enjoyment.

BarbarianMum · 21/12/2016 17:30

They'd have to wait until the next meal. A few hours of being hungry won't kill them. If they don't want to eat much at any given meal that's fine though, no pressure to eat.

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