Sainsbury's

[leahsfx]

Incase anyone hadn't seen Sainsbury's free magazine... They have a cool activity on decorating eggs and growing cress

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[FloraDora]

Did this two weeks ago in the hope that egg and cress sandwiches would go down well- not a chance! They loved painting the egg shells, planting and watching the cress grow and gave the characters a hair cut but that didn't convince them to eat it.
Menu planning is the most difficult part of my job with one child who will eat peas but no fruit and one will eat some fruit but no veg, neither are interested in pasta, potatoes, rice, most meat and fish ( unless it has breadcrumbs around it) or anything you would usually put in sandwiches....My DH does a great job of disguising amongst his home made bread, fish bites, penny pizzas and chicken goujons and patties and we spend a great part of Sunday every week discussing the menu for the following week, introducing new food amongst the limited variety we know they will like in the hope that our role modelling will eventually work!
I read research somewhere that a child will have to see a new food ( if they are a little particular) at least 40 times before it will become acceptable in their diet.....so we will have to be really patient.
My own children ate everything that we ate, mealtimes were a delight. Although not fraught, mealtimes are always interesting here, if only to see if our cunning plans work in disguising fruit/ veg!!

[sing-low]

Cress is fab to grow as it's so quick, but I've never persuaded anyone to eat it, either!

[munch149]

Let's be honest it doesn't exactly taste and it does make you feel a bit like your eating grass lol

[SYLVIA]

I like cress. I must be the odd one out!

[leahsfx]

I like cress too and mixed with egg I thought it would go down well but if not to eat, at least it's fun to grow