mai-lenabump
08-09-2010, 07:43 PM
i have 2 new starters this week brother and sister boy is 4 so after school only and girl is 2 and full day.
Thing is they are extremely fussy - or so mum says. And vegetarian, but dont like veg.
Mums says they dont like pasta, chips, waffles anything like that, boy wont have things that are mixed together (what ever that means!) i think she means cake and custard would have to served seperate etc they do eat fish but apparently these 2 dont like it. She said just give them pizza jacket potato and beans.
But obviously i cant only ever give them that! And i dont want to make different meals for them than the other mindees and my own kids.
At school they get free school dinners (on a yrs trial everyone gets it) but this boy is so fussy mum sends him with sandwiches. (only 6 kids in entire school have sandwiches and 2 of them are hers!)
I posted this prob on the site where you intro yourself and someone suggested affering quorn or veg sausages etc but as you'll see that's not really an option either.
They do apparently like soup but i know my others are not all that keen so cant do that as a regular thing either, what on earth do i do~!?
I ended up giving the 2 yr old the same as other mindees for lunch today thinking she might just eat it as they were (gnocchi with veg sauce and tuna) but she just put her head on the table and refused!
I didn't offer an alternative just gave her yoghurt when others had there's after lunch.
They get snack at 10am and 3.30pm so not like she'd starve anyhow.
Then did jacket potato cheese and beans for tea. She ate it all and scrapped the potato right down to the skin, used knife and fork as that's what i gave her. But 4yr old boy said oh i dont like the skin it's been on my plate etc etc! I told him to just dig the potato out and leave what he didn't like. He was unimpressed but did eventually and ate most of the dinner.
When mum came i suggested quorn and veg sausages etc, she said oh they wont eat that sort of thing, just give them pizza jacket potatoes and beans that's fine! She was ok about 2 yr old not getting an alternative and totally shocked when i said she had done a great job with knife and fork, as apparently only ever has a spoon at home!
I think it's a case that they have been rather over indulged and with some gental persuassion might try new things but mum seems worried in case they do!
Not entirely sure where to go from here, so thought i'd make soup next week and do it with wraps they make themselves so all the other kids can get different things if soup is not for them and yet still give these 2 fussy ones chance to try new things.
Any Ideas????
Thing is they are extremely fussy - or so mum says. And vegetarian, but dont like veg.
Mums says they dont like pasta, chips, waffles anything like that, boy wont have things that are mixed together (what ever that means!) i think she means cake and custard would have to served seperate etc they do eat fish but apparently these 2 dont like it. She said just give them pizza jacket potato and beans.
But obviously i cant only ever give them that! And i dont want to make different meals for them than the other mindees and my own kids.
At school they get free school dinners (on a yrs trial everyone gets it) but this boy is so fussy mum sends him with sandwiches. (only 6 kids in entire school have sandwiches and 2 of them are hers!)
I posted this prob on the site where you intro yourself and someone suggested affering quorn or veg sausages etc but as you'll see that's not really an option either.
They do apparently like soup but i know my others are not all that keen so cant do that as a regular thing either, what on earth do i do~!?
I ended up giving the 2 yr old the same as other mindees for lunch today thinking she might just eat it as they were (gnocchi with veg sauce and tuna) but she just put her head on the table and refused!
I didn't offer an alternative just gave her yoghurt when others had there's after lunch.
They get snack at 10am and 3.30pm so not like she'd starve anyhow.
Then did jacket potato cheese and beans for tea. She ate it all and scrapped the potato right down to the skin, used knife and fork as that's what i gave her. But 4yr old boy said oh i dont like the skin it's been on my plate etc etc! I told him to just dig the potato out and leave what he didn't like. He was unimpressed but did eventually and ate most of the dinner.
When mum came i suggested quorn and veg sausages etc, she said oh they wont eat that sort of thing, just give them pizza jacket potatoes and beans that's fine! She was ok about 2 yr old not getting an alternative and totally shocked when i said she had done a great job with knife and fork, as apparently only ever has a spoon at home!
I think it's a case that they have been rather over indulged and with some gental persuassion might try new things but mum seems worried in case they do!
Not entirely sure where to go from here, so thought i'd make soup next week and do it with wraps they make themselves so all the other kids can get different things if soup is not for them and yet still give these 2 fussy ones chance to try new things.
Any Ideas????