NOW CLOSED Tell Cathedral City's Chedds your top tips for fussy eaters and win a £100 Space NK voucher!

[KatieBMumsnet]

We've been asked by the folks at Chedds, the kids' cheese snacking brand from Cathedral City, to find out your top tips for fussy eaters.

So, if you've ever had to or thought about how you'd deal with a "fussy eater" - what advice do you give other Mumsnetters with a fussy eater at home? What tips can you share to help make this easier to deal with?
For example, do you sneak carrots into mashed potatoes or disguise peppers in a bolognaise sauce? Do you try to alter the texture, colour or taste of certain foods? Do you make food into smiley faces? How would you get nutritious snacks into lunch boxes or for picnics? Or do you simply ignore the fuss?

Everyone who adds their comments to the thread below will be entered into a prize draw, where one MNer will win a £100 Space NK voucher.

Please note that some of the tips posted here may be published on the Chedds pages on Mumsnet.

Thanks and good luck!

MNHQ

My fussy eaters (resistant to green veg and any kind of meat) love Chinese food. So I often do gyoza dumplings with chicken or pork and savoy cabbage, and we eat a lot of egg fried rice with veg. I think the chopsticks help!

They can choose a vegetable if we go to the supermarket but then have to eat it.

And I have found that now dd is old enough to properly help with cooking she is far more willing to eat unusual things.

We are quite cruel really - if the main course is not devoured to our satisfaction DS1 has to sit and watch his parents enjoy a yummy pudding while he gets nowt! it's amazing how an appetite for broccoli can suddenly be found if an appropriately appetising 'carrot' or should that be 'chocolate finger' is dangled in view!

Thanks everyone for adding your comments, Chedds will find this all very helpful and keep an eye here to see if your comments are used.
We have also done the prize draw, and congratulations go to.......
Anchorwoman
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