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[I Love Bimby!]

Hi Guys,

Now that DD has hit the three's she is asserting her independence  and is complaining about most meals I dish up  - regardless of her loving them previously  .  So I'm left rather uninsprired for some kid-safe meals.

So I'm calling on all you Mums and Dads (and grandparent too) out there for some help.y P_P_P_Pretty Please could you please let me know what meals are a huge hit with your kids?

Many thanks in advance!! 

[brazen20au]

mine love
pasta e fagiole
ragu
risotto
ummmmmm
soups
lentil dishes

[I Love Bimby!]

Thanks Brazen! 

[brazen20au]

i'm sure there's more but my brain is just not cooperating today 

[baf65]

I think Brazens kids are actually off another planet 

Mine hate anything (2 and 4) that I make in that machine except for Sorbet and muffins!!!

OK, maybe I can get them to eat lasagne or steamed rice, thats about it!! LOL

I hope in all hope that one day I wil be able to cook a meal for our family of 4 in the TM that every one will eat!!!

[brazen20au]

mine hate sorbet, muffins and lasagna LOL!

[Thermomixer]

Breastmilk - sorry, limited experience.

[brazen20au]

LMAO!!!

[I Love Bimby!]

Breastmilk - sorry, limited experience.

Really Thermomixer???   

[judydawn]

ILB, my grand-daughter is 4 and what she likes to eat changes from week to week.  Some of her favourites are (at the moment)

Tuna and corn mornay
cottage pie
spaghetti bolognaise
roast chicken & gravy
chicken snitzel
honey/soy chicken wings (chicken bones she calls them)
chicken nuggets
risotto
potato fritters
chicken, lettuce, cheese & avocado wraps
mexican food as long as it isn't too spicy eg tacos and nachos
chicken soup

We find she won't eat something this week but next week she will but I'm sure you have this problem too.  Hope you get some ideas from other parents.

[baf65]

JD, if my 4yr old ate even half of what your grandaughter ate I would be soooooo happy!!

[bron]

I think Brazens kids are actually off another planet  Wink

I agree!!!
How healthy are your lot Brazen?

Mine eat all pasta, they love lasagne and cannelloni made with brandy and bechamel best, they love pizza, the meatballs, have a new recipe for meatballs with rice inside meatballs (will try and post soon) your chicken winglets, salt baked pork, oh and the steamed rolled chicken breasts, plus spanish omelete and paella, my lot go in phases too, however I do find the more the merrier and easier! Dig in quick or go hungry! My poor little sod eats everything! Quick before his big sisters demolish everything first!

[CarolineW]

The foods Bron describes are pretty much what my 5 y.o.  DD eat, too.  She'll also eat casseroles, loves sausages and toad in the hole, I've got her well sold on sakuma wikki with ugali, because she gets to use her fingers and play with the ugali as if it's playdough (getting around to posting the recipes for these.  Made it in the TMX for the first time last week, and forgot to take note of what I did.  Probably making it again tomorrow, so will try to do better this time!).

She likes roasts, steamed fish with rice and any vegetable which is sweet.  chicken nuggets.  Omlets.  Scrambled egg.  Run out of ideas now - sorry.

We have a rule, which is that she will try everything, but doesn't have to eat it if she doesn't like it.  She has to re-try things on a regular basis, in case she's 'grown up enough' to like it this time.  I never make it negative, I always say something like, "Never mind.  That's fine if you're too young to like it this time.  Don't worry, you'll like it when you're a bit bigger."  Then next time I make it (assuming that at least a few weeks have passed) "Just try this again and see if you're big enough to like it yet.  You never know - you're getting to be quite a big girl now"  Obviously, it pre-disposes her to WANT to like things, so it's only the stuff she genuinely doesn't like that she rejects.  But she looks forward to the day when she will like it.  Who knows, maybe it'll work for your child too...

[Thermomixer]

Lovely psychology CarolineW    Especially if there is more than one child and the younger one eats it first !!  Peer pressure - love it!

[judydawn]

Great idea CarolineW - can see that working. What child doesn't want to 'be bigger' and more 'grown-up'.  Must pass that one onto DD although she doesn't have a lot of problems compared to some parents - going back 40 years, my girls ate anything which was lucky for them because I don't think I would have been able to handle feeding fussy kids.