We just give them what we eat (4 & 2). Sometimes they eat it, sometimes they don't. Neither has shown any signs of malnutrition.
One thing I've noticed is that neither are big eaters at dinner time, no matter what. The youngest loves breakfast and will happily eat three courses.
Eldest tends to go big at lunchtime. In fact I think he would happily eat constantly from about 12:00 - 15:00 and forgo all other meal times.
While you may think it can only get better in time, that's not always the case: my eldest (19 y.o.) has decided she's going vegan 🙄
Thankfully she lives about 1500km away so the Sunday roast is safe.
"You don't have to eat it" has worked for a couple of our friends.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/6-words-that-will-end-picky-eating_b_7139710
there is no such thing as "kids" food, it is just a trap to get them addicted to processed and fast food.
My kids have never had a choice about what they eat, only whether to eat it, unsurprisingly they have never chosen to go hungry.
They have always had whatever my wife and I were eating, before they grew teeth I pureed whatever I was having for dinner. They learned to accept tastes and flavours before they were able to say no. Admittedley there seemed a cut off point around the time that they started walking where introducing new foods became more difficult which I theorise is an evolutionary adaptation to stop them wandering off and eating strange new foods that could be poisonous.
My eldest was eating herring, bones and all before they was 1, 13 now and complained this morning that I hadn't shared my kippers with them.
Our youngest fits into the pattern above when it comes to onions, mushrooms and courgettes, but she's starting to enjoy spices thanks to Nando's!
Then there's the irrational stuff: hates cauliflower, loves broccoli. Hates cooked carrots, loves them raw.
One really easy way to get a decent range of veg into them during the winter months is soup. You'd be surprised what you can get away with when it's hidden in a warm bowl of nondescript beige.
Then there’s the irrational stuff: hates cauliflower, loves broccoli. Hates cooked carrots, loves them raw.
That's not entirely irrational. I love cauli - I can happily eat it cooked or raw by itself. I will eat broccoli but it doesn't give me joy. Likewise I love raw carrot but can take or leave it when cooked.
Generally think mine (14 and 11) are alright. although for lifelong vegetarians there are more vegetables on the proscribed list than I'm happy with. Given the choice, they'd each eat a bucket of plain cooked pasta every night but they'd end up with scurvy or rickets or something so we're not doing that.
I think there's two fronts to the battle - the first is ensuring they eat a healthy balanced diet. My weapon of choice here has always been the knife - chop things finely enough and they won't know or care what it is. They'll eat a surprising quantity of onion, mushroom and broccoli if it's not easily identifiable beneath the comforting shroud of a herby tomato sauce.
The second front is the risk of them embarrassing you and your wife when served food containing unfamiliar or proscribed ingredients by someone else. "URGH is that a piece of AUBERGINE!?!?" type of thing. This can be much harder to negotiate. I find a look of parental menace served alongside the dish to be an effective strategy, a clear "shut up and eat it or there's no XBox for a week" sort of glower.
Cooking something that's just for me and Mrs Tyred feels like a rare treat.
No kids, that is not aubergine it is eggplant worked as did Zucchini not Courgette.
@johndoh
My daughter says that cauliflower is "sick broccoli"! Kid logic rules.
But yeah, I fully get why crunchy raw vegetables would trump cooked, but that's also down to good old 'cuisson a l'anglaise'; the noble art of boiling veg until there's no goodness, texture or taste left. For what it's worth I've had some success with roasting and grilling too.
I’m not wasting decent steak on an unappreciative 9 yr old.
There’s been great upset in our house for not buying them steak when we have it from a very young age.
The One Where Cougar Outs Himself As A Bloody Weirdo:
I'm not a parent, but I was that kid. To an extent I still am. So here's a view from the other side, from what I can remember.
My mum once told me that as soon as I was old enough to learn to say "no" I did, when I was little I could count the number of things I would eat on the fingers of one hand (well, maybe a slight exaggeration but not far off). I've had a love / hate relationship with food all my life.
As regular readers will know I've been vegetarian for 30 years, right back at the start this decision was at least in part just an excuse to say "no" as an adult, but it turned out that it actually fixed a good deal of the problem for me. I've always found the concept of eating meat to be revolting, as a kid I'd eat things like oxtail soup so long as it was sieved to get all the bits out and laced with so much white pepper that it was unrecognisable, so deciding not to do so actually removed a lot of pressure.
It's hard now to put my finger on exactly what the problem was, aside from the 'meat' issue. Smell was (and is) a primary issue, if I didn't like the smell of something then there was no way in hell I was putting it in my mouth. I've never eaten things like fish, fried eggs, bacon, because to me they stink to the point of making me want to gag.
Texture was another problem. I've only started eating peas in the last couple of years because I hated the 'feel' of them in my mouth. I can eat them now if they're in something (like say a curry) so long as I don't think about it too much and just swallow them straight down.
Fear of the unknown probably played a part too. Like, I didn't know whether I'll like something or not, so I wouldn't try just in case I didn't like it. Being able to eat something without knowing exactly what was in it took me decades to even start to deal with. I wonder whether this is tied into the suggestion others have made around getting kids to help with the cooking process? Certainly I found it a lot easier* to start to open up my horizons when I was in full control of exactly what I was eating. These days I actually love cooking, back when I was living with someone permanently it became my "me" time where I could stick headphones on and potch about in the kitchen for half an hour.
There is also a definite psychological element here. Example, a few years ago I got some chilli bean soup or other from Pret. I carefully poured over the ingredients list first and everything was "safe," bought it and it was really good. Halfway through, something in the back of my brain went "nope" and I started to gag on it. I ended up throwing the rest of it away, I knew if I had another mouthful I'd be sick. I actually said to my partner at the time, "this is bloody ridiculous, there's nothing in here I don't like, it's absolutely delicious, and I can't eat it."
I genuinely believe that, for me at least, it's a form of phobia. Like, I don't consciously have a fear of heights. On holiday recently I went in one of those skyscrapers which has a sort of bay window on the top floor with a glass floor. I strode out onto it full of confidence knowing that it was perfectly safe, and as soon as I stepped out onto it my subconscious had other ideas and I was shaking like a shitting dog. My relationship with food isn't wholly dissimilar.
I'll have a think about what didn't help and what might have (though I can't be certain now), but that's probably another post.
(* - as in "really difficult" rather than "impossible," it's all relative)
Have posted previously on this topic and still in a painful stage with sweajnr so whilst it's not great it's comforting to know it's not just us.....
"It may take a day or two, but hungry kids eat."
We tried this tactic of eat it or go hungry and ended up having some fun at the GP's when it was decided during a check-up that he was malnourished. How to make a parent feel even worse... Following that adventure our current tactic is that providing it isn't sugar calories in is the most important criteria followed by nutrition.
What didn't work:
"You'll eat it if you're hungry enough." Nope, I'd cheerfully have starved to death.
Force. That just left me traumatised and exacerbated the problem.
Stealth. My mum once gave me what I thought was bread and butter, then told me afterwards that it was Dairylea. I promptly threw it straight back up again.
The element of surprise. Even as an adult, shoving a spoon / forkful of food at my face going "here, try this!" is guaranteed to have me recoiling yards. It's involuntary, I can't help it.
This actually happened to me as recently as this weekend, my girlfriend was sitting next to me eating a yoghurt, I knew exactly what she was eating and I like yoghurt, but when she suddenly went "want to try some?" and thrust a loaded spoon at me I almost fell over the side of the couch.
What might have worked, or at least helped:
Variations on safe foods / very similar foods. Like, they like Heinz tomato soup, maybe try Batchelor's?
Marketing. I loved chips, but presented with a plate of mash I wouldn't eat it. If I'd been told it was "the inside of chips" that might have helped.
Removing the pressure. Like, leaving me to try something under my own steam on my own terms, rather than shoving something in front of me full of expectations and watching me like a hawk.
As an extension of that, letting them eat how they want. If they'll only eat fish fingers if dipped in custard, don't say no because it's "wrong." When I did try mashed potato I asked for ketchup and was refused; my thinking was that it was coarse and lumpy (texture thing again), dry and tasteless, and it needed something moist to offset that, though I didn't tell them this at the time. If I'd been allowed ketchup or, with the benefit of hindsight maybe gravy of a bit more milk / butter and salt in the mash I'd have been fine.
Not over-facing. A tablespoon of mash would've been way less intimidating than a bloody great plateful.
Capitalise on what they do like. Again, it took me years to realise but I like strong flavours and spice. I love Marmite, chilli, curry, but even when I was little I was a demon for things like pepper and HP Sauce, my folks didn't seem to notice.
Following on from that, my gran used to give me bread with everything, I'd routinely have four slices of Warburton's Toastie with whatever I was eating, sometimes followed by an entire canned sponge pudding to myself or some such. I realise now that this was just her way of getting some calories - any calories - into me.
Not cross-contaminating. Never mind eating fish, I wouldn't eat chips that had touched fish.
Something else just occurred to me that should have been in my previous post: I think psychologically I found eating to be an invasive process, certainly as a kid. Like, "you want me to put this stuff inside my body? What if I can't get it out again?" Maybe that might be a consideration, reassuring them that even if they don't like it it won't harm them and they'll poo it out again. (Yes, of course I knew how biology worked, but as you may have worked out by now this entire thing isn't exactly rational.) [EDIT: I've just thought, what might well have really helped me here is being allowed to taste something and spit it out rather than an expectation of having to swallow it.]
I hope some of this is useful. Yes, I'm a freak with food and eating out is a trauma.
Variations on safe foods / very similar foods.
Actually, I've just remembered, this was another turning point for me. As a student, the lad I was staying with at the time went "fancy some spaghetti?" I said sure, expecting a can of Heinz' finest, and was absolutely mortified when he cracked open some actual spaghetti and a jar of Ragu. I forced it down I think partly because it was just the right time and place for my brain to go "I'll give it a go" and give me a break, and partly just to save face.
Because that's the other thing with this affliction, it's utterly stupid and it embarrasses the shit out of me. A few years ago, I wouldn't have been able to bring myself to even write these posts (in fact I think the first time I 'came out' to anyone other than close friends was on a similar thread on STW a few years back). I hate hate hate being the centre of attention at mealtimes (probably another childhood PTSD) and people being "helpful" in reading menus at me are just... I appreciate it's well meaning but really, I can actually read, will you please just **** off and leave me alone to quietly die of embarrassment whilst I make "I'm not really hungry" excuses and order a bowl of onion rings?
As others have said, having them get hands on in the kitchen helps (there are cook books on for kids, e.g. Nancy McDougall's, Kids first ever cookbook, has a satay style recipe she calls sticky chicken which is worth a go (and has some suggestions like using sausages instead). I don't think its about getting them to respect the effort that has gone in, just have an interest in food. Then there are people making family friendly recipe books like Fay Ripley's, What's for Dinner; and Nadiya Hussain's Family Favourites. (Nadiya's quick food, and Jamies' 15 (actually30!) minute meals are probably also worth a look as at the least - whilst some beige crap is cooking you can make something nice).
Here are my parenting observations around food though:
1. If they aren't hungry they won't eat / eat quickly. If you associate a food with a bad experience it sticks.
2. If they don't eat quickly some of that stuff will get cold. We even "let the kids stuff cool down before serving". Some of it tastes terrible cold. If you associate a food with a bad experience it sticks.
3. We tend to overload their plates and expect them to leave what they don't want. This reinforces the idea that they didn't enjoy it (because they left loads).
4. We tend to underseason children's food because salt is bad (but seasoning is not just salt!). If you associate a food with a bad experience it sticks.
5. Things like onion I can get rejected if the lumps are too big. They will eat it finely chopped, cooked through stuff so its not the taste. At some point they have had some underdone big lumps of onion (probably at my mothers!). If you associate a food with a bad experience it sticks.
We all know that cliche, 'the first taste is with your eyes', well I think it is especially true for children. And if your eyes tell you this is just like the stuff they tried to force you to eat last week you reject it.
My children seem to have some sort of cutlery usage failure and so the more complex the eating the less they will like it. Give them a spread of food on the table where they can help themselves and more often than not mine will try it all!
BUT I actually think the biggest problem is my other half, because she will make a drama out of any refusal, and if you associate a food with a bad experience it sticks. Far better to shrug and either offer something else simple (my go to is toasted cheese*) if you think they tried but just didn't like it, or say thats fine go and do whatever you want if they just seem uninterested. Its not impossible they are well enough fed from Lunch etc to not be hungry - we worked out why the kids were never hungry when they came back from MIL's after school when we discovered she thought they needed snacks at 4pm!
*mine are now old enough that they get told to make themselves something like that (not every one of my kitchen experiments is a success).
That's probably the best post I've read on here so far.
We all know that cliche, ‘the first taste is with your eyes’, well I think it is especially true for children.
For me it was smell. A lot of food just stinks to me, I think "how can you possibly eat that?" The ubiquitous "yes but bacon" vegetarian-bashing trope makes me laugh, I think it smells absolutely revolting. Going past the fish market with my grandparents as a kid, I'd hold my breath until we'd passed.
Presentation was probably a distant second.
‘the first taste is with your eyes’, well I think it is especially true for children.
Once you've established whether a child looks tasty are you then advocating eating it?
Thanks for sharing Cougar, genuinely illuminating and given me some ideas.
Our 1 and 4 year olds will eat most things as long as it's not spicy. The oldest may decide she doesn't want something on the plate one day but will live it a few days later. Their nursery has a chef which helps as some nurseries and most schools have awful outsourced slop. Because we also eat all meals together as a family, obviously for some that's not possible but I think it helps.
I'm not smug though as they both still sleep in with us. Kids huh
Thanks for sharing Cougar, genuinely illuminating and given me some ideas.
Cool, I just hope it helps. That was hard. Let us know how you get on?
A couple of further thoughts after reading back my posts here.
I talked a few times about "safe" foods without really realising. Maybe explore what's "safe" with your kids and why, then pick at that?
And this, as an adult:
Removing the pressure. Like, leaving me to try something under my own steam on my own terms, rather than shoving something in front of me full of expectations and watching me like a hawk.
Relatively recently I had a close friend who wanted me to try guacamole. Rationally this is a fairly easy ask, it's mushed veg and garlic. But the way she went about it was high pressure, to a point of chasing me around the house with a spoon. No, not if my life depended on it. She went on about this for like two years.
I eventually tried the stuff, left alone in a kitchen one time there was some there, I thought "why not?" and funnily enough I rather liked it. But, I guess, it had to be my call and in private rather than with everyone watching.
Eh, maybe I'm just a control freak. (-:
BruceWee
Just out of interest, how many days would you realistically go before throwing in the towel?
We never made an issue out of food. Just took the line that if they didn't want to eat something then they weren't hungry, and didn't offer more food or substitutes. This was when they were very young, so when they got older if they wanted their pudding, they ate what went before.
Similarly we'd tell them when we were going to tidy their rooms and to leave everything they wanted to throw out on the floor.
This ☝️ Exactly how it works in this house and it works.
Cougar - you have ( IIRC) said before that you have strong aspie traits. Your reaction to food as a kid sounds quite aspie to me especially the stuff about textures
Mine are fussy.
Will eat spaghetti bol. With cheese.
Wont eat lasagne.
Will eat mac and cheese with side of broccoli etc.
Wont eat broccoli pasta bake.
Anything with "bits" creates fuss.
Meat will get eaten at grandmas and school etc but not at home unless reconstituted or breaded.
Lots of stand offs. Lots of spoon feeding.
Spoon fed my 5 year old cream of tomato soup last night (trying to introduce soups) has ate it before but now refusing.
Feel your pain.
So heres how last nights tea went.
Eldest was out at Guides, so it was just me and Mrs Trailwagger with littlest 6 yr old.
Made sweet potato wedges, green beans and salmon for the misses, fish cakes for me, and nuggets for little one (was going to be cod but hadn't realised we had none left in the freezer).
She tried the wedges but didn't like them (despite mashed sweet potato being her favourite thing). She tried some of mums salmon, didn't like it. She tried some of my fishcake, didn't like it. She tried a green bean, didn't like it. She ate the nuggets. As advised on here I didn't make a big deal of it, I was happy that she tried everything. On to tonight. Chicken Enchiladas, could be interesting.
Will eat spaghetti bol. With cheese.
Wont eat lasagne.
I'd perhaps work on this. It's not "lasagne," it's "spaghetti bol in layers." You could perhaps even make it with spaghetti rather than lasagne sheets to start with.
We never made an issue out of food. Just took the line that if they didn’t want to eat something then they weren’t hungry, and didn’t offer more food or substitutes.
So presumably you've not had your child go for three days without eating? Or taken your child to the doctor only to be told they're malnourished as another poster on this thread experienced?
I think you should accept the possibility that your kids aren't particularly picky eaters and for those of us who have genuinely picky eaters your advice isn't very useful and can actually be harmful.
I’d perhaps work on this. It’s not “lasagne,” it’s “spaghetti bol in layers.” You could perhaps even make it with spaghetti rather than lasagne sheets to start with.
We still have this argument with our girls (aged 10). It is the identical ragu but of course lasagne does have the addition of white sauce (which they like if we make it as a plain pasta with white sauce) but the texture does change quite a bit.
We did a beef stroganoff last night but made the mistake of adding sweet red pepper so a meal they normally will eat became a battle because it was different (even though we told them they could leave the red pepper if they didn't like it).
I’d perhaps work on this. It’s not “lasagne,” it’s “spaghetti bol in layers.”
You clearly do not have any kids.
BrudeWee
...I think you should accept the possibility that your kids aren’t particularly picky eaters and for those of us who have genuinely picky eaters your advice isn’t very useful and can actually be harmful.
My kids could manage a day to a day and a half, but hunger is a strong motivator. If an active kid goes 3 days without eating then it has a different problem.
Picky eating didn't exist when I was a kid, it's a First World problem.
Well as Cougar's come out on this thread, I'll join in. I've suffered from being a picky eater all of my adult life. And I mean suffered - it's embarrassing, it's socially limiting, it's a great thing to beat yourself up about if you're in the least bit suffering with depression. I posted on here about it and got some good advice:
https://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/fixing-a-weird-relationship-with-food/
First off, the biggest relief for me was finding out that I wasn't alone with this. In fact on a subsequent trip to South America I met another guy who used exactly the same language about "safe" food, but he was more open about it and would actually request special meals rather then trying to hide his struggle as I did. I'd managed to make a bit of progress by then so could share some of that but I've got no idea if he ever did anything about it.
For me it seems to go back to childhood standoffs over meals - parents trying to sneak stuff in (eg. putting baked beans in stew), being forced to sit over a cold plate until one of us gave in. That developed into me asking "what's for tea" and saying "can I not have XYZ", then using that as a way to take control and protect myself from those unpleasant situations. Then into cooking - I'd only cook with stuff I knew and would modify recipes to cut out anything else so I stayed in control again. That protection method got reinforced until it was so deep in me that I couldn't even recognise it. The therapy linked in my original thread helped me face that as an adult and adopt a more rational approach to food and I believe the same guy offers something for youngsters too.
I'm still nowhere near a 'normal' eater. I still have a long list of "unsafe" food and despite making a bit of progress here and there my normal restaurant experience is to go through the menu crossing off anything that seems unsafe (does it mention tomatoes? or peppers? a bed of cabbage?) and that hopefully leaves me with something I can eat. I'll occasionally get days where I feel like I can push the boundaries in exactly the same way that one day you'll be riding along and just ride that line you've always avoided before. It feels natural and unforced, and you accept the consequences. In either case having a crowd of people egging you on to "just try it" and watching your every move will make you less and less likely to give it a go.
So to all of those with kids - yes it's a phase that most kids go through, With any luck they'll grow out of it. But please do all you can to stop them making it an issue that they'll carry with them for years.
If an active kid goes 3 days without eating then it has a different problem.
Such as?
Picky eating didn’t exist when I was a kid, it’s a First World problem.
I think you'll find it did.
It's true that in the First World we eat a far more varied range of foods. In Third World countries the children aren't expected to eat anything like the range of flavours, colours, and textures we expect our kids to eat.
Picky eating didn’t exist when I was a kid, it’s a First World problem.
There are descriptions of serious eating disorders throughout history. The first "modern" documented account of anoerxia nervosa was in the 18th Century. I think what you meant was:
Picky eating didn’t exist in my limited experience when I was a kid, it’s a
First Worldproblem.
Haven't read everything here but here's my experience. I know we've been "lucky" in that our daughter (4 - and a half!!) eats very well. Veggies no problem - she's the one kid at nursery who asks for and eats sprouts. Never really had a problem, but sometimes she says "I don't like that!" before she's even touched it or seen it. IGNORE that. Put it on the table and say something like "We just want you try it" (make that a rule) and if they try it and don't like it, fine. But leave it on the plate and don't make a fuss. 9/10 times with any complaints, there's an empty plate after 10 minutes (this happened last night with cauliflower).
Again, we might just be very lucky, but don't give in to complaints of not liking something straight away.
Eat the same as your kid. If there's spice or controversial additions to the dish, add them at the end after you've taken out the kid's portion. Then you're eating the same as far as they're concerned.
Make something fun out if it, e.g. rice with beans / lentil / veggies in it is "treasure rice".
All that said, I've seen some horror shows of kids not eating and it's seemingly nobody's fault. It's just unnecessary to give in to complaining a lot of the time (without wanting to sound *too* sanctimonious).
My two girls do ok. The eldest, 4, is a bit picky but we try to ask her what veg to buy and to cook, get her peeling, chopping and cracking eggs to be involved, put a little of a variety of veg on her plate and accept that some meals go badly, some middling and some well. So overall she eats a variety and hopefully with time will be happier eating more. Sweet veg like beetroot, carrot, sweet potato go best, but peas, broccoli go fairly well. Potato, parsnips and sprouts.... She eats a bit from time to time. The youngest, 2, is a really good eater, but even she had her moments. Sometimes the tin of speghetti hoops is used and we have to accept losing that battle.
My 2 (11 and 8 ) eat what i give them ( helpful, not!) - but i know to mix some stuff in so they can't quite tell.
One thing I've done a few times is to do it quite scientifically . So when they say they don't want to eat for example chicken - I'll come back with reasons that they need protein and explain why they need it for muscle development etc..
And so forth for other food groups. Helps were all quite geeky.
We're trying to cut down the amount of meat in meals - so have the discussion of what your replacing it with and why.
We often revisit food they have disliked every couple of months as their taste buds change.
I’ll come back with reasons that they need protein and explain why they need it for muscle development etc..
I am not sure an 11 year old cares about (or would really understand) protein and muscle development. Perhaps if it was packaged more like 'you like [insert sport or activity] don't you? Well, by eating foods like chicken, eggs and vegetables you will get stronger/faster/better'...
Perhaps not - but i see no need to shy away from topics which allow them to learn at the same time.
solely depends on the child - Mine take a logical answer, sometime we describe it differently but it gets topics discussed and discussion is never a bad thing.
There is no magic answer - sometimes they just change.
Like one of the other examples - my son did not scrambled egg - but after having it a friends house now likes it. We've not changed how we made it either!
i see no need to shy away from topics which allow them to learn
Agreed, but the best time to teach children about muscle protein synthesis probably isn't when they are stressing about eating their Chicken Tonight. 😉
TomD
The first “modern” documented account of anoerxia nervosa was in the 18th Century. I think what you meant was:
I said "If an active kid goes 3 days without eating then it has a different problem" and anoerxia nervosa is certainly a big difference from picky.
One thing I didn't take into consideration was the difference in meals in my lifetime, much plainer when I was raising kids.
Day number two.
Youngest was away last night at Nans, so just the eldest (pickiest) eater at home.
I made Chicken Enchiladas. I knew it was going to be a tough one. She asked what was for tea as soon as I walked through the door. I told her and the immediate response was "I'm not eating that!".
I made it anyway, and the wife and I sat down to eat (it was delicious). After ten minutes eldest walked into the kitchen and said she would try the chicken as she was so hungry. She sat and picked all the peppers out, scraped off as much sauce as possible and then ate the rest.
I`ll put that one down as a success. I think deep down she liked it, but is too stubborn to admit that to us.
I've got 3 little monsters, one is nearly 8, one is nearly 6 and the youngest is 3 1/2.
The eldest is pretty good, will eat a proper roast dinner and most adult type meals most of the time, sometimes he only wants kid type food.
The middle one can happily live off chocolate, dairylee drinkers and apples chicken in various forms and tuna napilonata or pasta carbonara, and I've never seen anyone of his size demolish a whole pack of jaffa cakes so quickly.
The youngest goes through phases, sometimes has the ability to eat small adult type meals, sometimes milk and biscuits.
They're all healthy, sleep well and do ok at school academically and pretty damn well at sporty type things. But they all love fruit and veg and will snack on peppers, apples, grapes and carrots along with the usual mountain of crisps and biscuits.
As for how we deal with it, most of the time they get separate tea time from us due to timing so often get kiddie type food, but we make an effort at weekends to have family tea time and then we cook something that all will eat. I'm quite partial to chicken goujons, golden veg rice and carrot sticks 😂
One thing we are struggling with at the moment is sandwich ideas. Eldest only wants ham, has started rejecting avacado, cheese and won't try tuna. Will eat peanut butter but nursery don't allow it. Sandwich ideas welcome!
Try other meats to start with?
And I would reject avocado sandwiches. That's just weird.
