What about eating issues?
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What about eating issues?
| Fri, 06-10-2005 - 2:24pm |
We have debated sleeping issues to death once again....so what about another one of the issues of childhood....eating and/or not eating?
My kids eat just about anything and have a pretty well rounded diet.

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No, but it would be beyond rude to have him over for dinner and then not provide anything substantial that he can actually eat.
Dj
"Now when I need help, I look in the mirror" ~Kanye West~
I haven't read all the posts...dealing with a little drama here at home, lol.
"This entire thread has made me wonder why it's ok to cater to adults' food issues but to childrens'."
I tend to agree. I mean, I can see if a child only wants to eat Fruit Loops and Oreos all the time, which is bad for them. But some kids just don't like certain foods. And that, I don't think is all that bad. There is a line though-if one has three kids I can't see making something different for each of them. I could see serving a variety though...and keeping in mind what the kids hate. For instance I am having company over the Independence Day weekend. We'll have four adults, a three year old and a nine year old. I plan to make skewers-some beef (for me and ds), some chicken (for dh) and some prawn (just for fun). This way the guests, as well as my family, has a variety to choose from and every body can have what they'll like. I'll make a green salad (strawberry pecan), a mediterranean rice salad, and we'll have chocolate fondue for dessert. I'll likely set aside some plain rice for the three year old, and I know my dh will skip the rice salad (but there's the other one so that's okay).
I don't think there was anything wrong at all with your ds having chicken nuggets while you had fish. Pretty soon I'll bet he'll be having the fish...or seeing how much you enjoy it, be willing to try it.
When I was a kid I HATED hamburger. Really-completely hated it. Wouldn't eat burgers, didn't like french fries, didn't like pop. My Mom made the ocassional thing with hamburger cause everyone else liked it, and I ate salad. I did try it, still didn't like it.
I STILL hate hamburger. And if she made that famous hamburger pie of hers, I wouldn't eat it.
However, I will point out that while my dh is totally picky, he never complains and I could serve roast beef (which he hates) with mashed potatoes (which he avoids) and salad, and he'd eat a little potatoes, a lot of salad, and later on have a peanut butter sandwhich. He won't complain-and I think that's why I cater to him. Plus I love to make what he likes-I came from a family where food was an expression of love, and I love making things they like. I do see meeting their likes as a challenge that I don't mind facing. My ds, having grown up with a picky Dad, never was pressured to eat a thing. We'd have a variety of stuff on the table, and occasionally would say "That is just for the grown ups"-to make him interested in a particular veggie. Always worked, he always tried it. Ds is a particularly adventurous eater though, one that took sushi for lunch in grade one, loves calamari and lobster, etc.
On the flip side we never have pop, chips, or other junk food in the house, we never go out for fast food, and the only treats are home made baking (my last name used to be Crocker-good one, lololol). Works for us.
Edited 6/15/2005 12:11 am ET ET by khumphrey
I think it would depend on the person's reason for being a vegetarian; some have moral or religious reasons for their diet, others simply don't care to consume certain types of food. I also think it would depend on the occasion; if I were serving a holiday meal to a lot of people on say, Xmas, no, I wouldn't prepare a strictly vegetarian meal, because that would not be fair to the other guests who had accepted the invitation on the understanding that the meal would be traditional. (And no, Tofurkey is not a reasonable compromise, LOL!)
Serving a vegetarian meal once in a while isn't a big deal, and I'll do it on occasion if I've invited someone who would really be genuinely offended at the presence of flesh on the table. (I draw the line at excluding dairy, however; if my child asks for milk in his own home, he gets it.) However, most of the vegetarians I know are doing it for what they profess to be health reasons, so for them simply including a selection of foods that they can eat seems to best satisfy all concerned.
Actually my dh isn't into food either.
It's strange for me, coming from a family where food is HUGE, you eat it, discuss it, then...like another poster said, watch Food Network!
He eats to live, basically and has a really limited repitoire of what he likes. I've mellowed him out more over the years and he's gotten more used to being fed good food rather then quick stuff though.
ITA re: texture. Peaches, mushrooms, strawberries (though I'm allergic to them anyway), tomatoes, the list goes on. Love the taste of mushrooms and tomatoes, but the texture of the raw/cooked food itself makes me gag. (Can't say the same for peaches, universal blech on those!)
My little hand-held Braun food processing wand is my saviour; I even puree oysters for my turkey stuffing. Like I always tell DS, if you think it smells good, then it will almost always taste good, but the way a food feels on your tongue can still kill the deal.
Smell is a whole 'nother category for food aversions. Can't tolerate cooked cruciferous veggies, myself. (So no brussels sprouts get cooked in this house, not matter how much a guest might like them.) To me, that category all smells just like raw sewage.
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