#154

Yep I can relate. Although to be honest I’m genuinely not sure if I’m the same.

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#155

Yeah absolutely. And I wasn’t suggesting that it’s a flawed strategy, just as you say one that requires thinking through properly.

#156

Definitely. And when it’s night 4 in a row where your child has had noting but a biscuit and garlic bread for dinner, you start to question whether you ought to be pinning him down and doing gavage of kale. I’ve just found it’s the best strategy of a bad bunch.

#157

(the former, not the gavage thing :joy::rofl:)

#158

Granted I didn’t know shallow frying breaded chicken was even possible.

Have a word wit yourself! Depends what you put in it, doesn’t it? That’s a bit like saying ‘food’s fucking muck’.

#159

I was backing you up bro!

It’s annoying because it’s so much more expensive but if I ate any of that reformed stuff I’d probably be sick.

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#160

Literally don’t think I could keep fish or meat down.

Some stuff you just don’t like.

I was a very fussy sort of kid for eating. And I recall my uncle being of the view I was that way because I hadn’t been told I had to eat things. My cousin, she would eat loads of stuff you see. Then my uncle had a second kid and that boy just loved baked beans. I sort of saw the realisation come to him that you can’t force kids to like stuff really, not and be progressive.

#161

Yeah I think this is how my mum used to do it, I’m going to interrogate her when I next see her about how she implemented eating habits.

We were very rules-oriented in our house and we were a bit afraid of her but I think she was fairly careful introducing new food. We all liked the main meats so if something was new it would be a different vegetable or a new sauce, so we’d have like roast potatoes, three vegetables and pork in cider sauce. If we didn’t like the cider sauce we could scrape it off or leave it and she might not try it again (or next time it would be dry for me if everyone else liked it), or if it was that bad we could just eat all the rest. If you know there are no alternatives then you’re going to at least try it. I wasn’t going to suddenly pretend I don’t like roast potatoes.

We weren’t forced to eat stuff we didn’t like though, so she must have been able to gauge what we found genuinely nasty (to this day, don’t try and feed me mushrooms), and what we were not fussed about. I got a bit bored of jacket potatoes and ham but when that’s all that’s on offer you eat it. I think it was only when I was a teenager that I started to kick off a bit, probably because my brother had left home and my dad worked nights so my mum chucked jacket potatoes at me about four days of the week (‘do it yourself’ was never an option, I might have tried it but my mum wouldn’t let me loose in her kitchen).

I don’t remember any disagreements or attempts to act up so all of this must have been drilled in to us before the age that I can remember anything (about four or five).

#162

My wee one is always trying to get edamame peas (the spicy hard ones you get in a pot from spenos) off me, presumably because they look like M&Ms. I should just let him have one to end the fascination once and for all.

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#163

On the other hand, when you see items about kids that only eat turkey dinosaurs and chips you don’t really think that’s genuinely the only food they like, do you?

#164

I can still remember the look on my toddler cousin’s face when I eventually allowed her to have one of my tempting looking chocolate covered espresso beans…

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#165

Is this approach too controversial to try with alcohol? I think I was allowed to try wine when I asked when I was a kid because it was so fucking disgusting it would be years before I tried again.

#166

Bloody love Penguins

Reliably enjoyable treat

#167

Not really what I’m daying

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#168

I’m going to share a top parenting tip with you all

You know how its annoying when older kids (or even adults) declare they don’t like “spicy” food and refuse to have anything to do with it,

When my kids were all I would always pop a very small amount of chili flakes in the “generic red pasta sauce” I would make on the regular (and still do). I would never say there was any chili in it. Over time I increase the chill content by a very small amount - result teenagers who are more than happy to eat spicy food

you’re welcome

#169

This reads like a shit/good passage from catcher in the rye :smiley:

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#170

I have never read it I’m afraid

#171

It’s about a boy that only eats beans

#172

it’s like your post, except with the word phony used every other sentance

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#173

I was just saying kids are individuals and very clever and parents are very tired